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Oahu Tour Company Seeks Help Planting 100 Native Trees

Halia Private Tours is marking its 10th anniversary with a Waimea Valley native-tree planting initiative, starting with 10 trees and aiming to support 100 plantings. The company also invites tour guests to join stewardship activities, such as native planting and coastal cleanups.

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Study tests AI that estimates biological age and cancer survival from face scan

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A new artificial intelligence model can measure someone's biological age and predict their chances of surviving cancer just by looking at an image of the person's face, researchers say.

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Study Links Hunting to Smaller Madagascar Flying Foxes

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Measurements of museum specimens show Madagascar’s flying foxes have become smaller in recent decades. Researchers suspect commercial hunting, which may disproportionately remove larger bats, is driving the change, though climate and habitat effects were also considered.

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Emergency Declared After Fire at South Carolina Nuclear Laboratory

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An emergency has been declared at a nuclear site in South Carolina after a fire broke out at a laboratory, officials said. The fire ignited Wednesday at the Savannah River Nationa… — by Sandra Rhodes

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UC San Diego researchers identify compound that kills brain-eating amoeba

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A microscopic organism with a track record of causing nearly-always fatal infections may finally have met its match in the form of an isolated bacteria compound recently discovered by researchers.

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Deer Leaps Through Appleton Apartment Window, Escapes

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A deer that had entered an unoccupied Appleton, Wisconsin, apartment escaped by smashing through a window as police officers investigated; it appeared uninjured. Police noted that deer are especially active during fall breeding season and urged drivers to watch for them, when collisions are more common.

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Newport Orders One-Mile Evacuation After Seafood Plant FireEnvironment — 4dLevel 3 "Go Now" evacuation ordered for a one-mile radius around a Pacific Seafood plant fire in Newport, Oregon, over ammonia smoke concerns; no injuries reported.

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Dana Whitfield Hope folks in the evacuation zone have a place to stay tonight. One mile is a lot of ground to clear in Newport.

Sri Lanka Seeks 70% Renewable Power by 2030Environment — 4dSri Lanka plans to accelerate its shift to renewable energy and may exceed its 70% clean-electricity target for 2030 as costly fossil-fuel imports strain the economy. The transition faces grid and transmission limits, financing and storage needs, and opposition to wind projects in some communities.

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Derek Foss Sri Lanka's push for renewables could cut import costs but they must fix the grid and storage problems first or it won't work.

Indonesia frees two orangutans rescued from plantation amid wildfiresEnvironment — 6dIndonesia released two rescued Bornean orangutans into the wild in West Kalimantan after they were found at an oil palm plantation. The release comes as fires displace orangutans and destroy habitat; conservationists report dozens rescued and say lasting protection of forests is essential alongside emergency care.

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125-Million-Year-Old Megaraptoran Identified in EnglandScience — 6dA partial skull held since 1924 at London's Natural History Museum is Invictabellatrix amberina, a ~125-million-year-old agile megaraptoran relative of T. rex from the Isle of Wight.

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Jared Kim Hard to believe this megaraptoran skull sat in storage since 1924 before anyone spotted it was a new species.

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Study Finds How Tumors Evade ChemotherapyScience — 6dTrinity College Dublin scientists found chemotherapy can push tumor cells into a zombie-like state nearly 10 times normal size, kept alive by IAPs that block Death Receptors.

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Derek Foss Trinity's work on apoptosis proteins shows why some cells dodge death signals, it could lead to smarter ways to finish the job without extra rounds of treatment.

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