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Eucalyptus boom in Brazil’s Cerrado dries up springs, forces out smallholders https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/eucalyptus-boom-in-brazils-cerrado-dries-up-springs-forces-out-smallholders/

Eucalyptus boom in Brazil’s Cerrado dries up springs, forces out smallholders
A eucalyptus boom in Brazil’s biodiverse Cerrado savanna is drying up land and water springs, making subsistence farming more difficult, local authorities and farmers tell Mongabay. Adilso Cruz, a 46-year-old rancher from the Alecrim settlement in Mato Grosso do Sul state, said the water shortages began around 2013, coinciding with the growth of eucalyptus plantations […]

Predicting next NFL wide receivers to get paid: Terry McLaurin, Drake London likely candidates for extension

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Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
DURKIM: Not computers. Computer. Singular. Very singular indeed. Our unbeatable control and coordination centre.
SERVALAN: No!
DURKIM: Servalan, by design or accident Star One is failing.
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There was no cake left in the rain, just a sunny day gone dark as #Drumpf military men mount horseback, don facemasks and occupy #MacArthurPark for show of force, irking #LA mayor

Federal Agents March Through L.A. Park, Spurring Local Outrage
Federal officials said it was an immigration enforcement operation, though it was unclear if anyone had been arrested. “It’s the way a city looks before a coup,” Mayor Karen Bass said as she condemned the action.

“[Police] said the bag contained 453 hydrocodone pills, 986 Xanax pills, 2083 OxyContin pills, and 979 ecstasy pills” or as RFK Jr. calls it, Monday morning
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Weighing The Options: The Unseen Companion in LAMOST J2354 is Likely a Massive White Dwarf
LAMOST J235456.73+335625 (J2354) is a binary system hosting a $\sim 0.7~\rm M_\odot$ K dwarf and a $\sim 1.4~\rm M_\odot$ dark companion, supposedly a neutron star, in a 0.48d orbit. Here we present high- and low-resolution spectroscopy to better constrain the properties of the system. The low-resolution spectrum confirms that the luminous star is a slightly metal-poor K dwarf and strengthens the limits on any optical flux from the dimmer companion. We use the high-resolution spectra to measure…

Flux of Extragalactic Dark Matter in Direct Detection Experiments
Shokhruz Kakharov, Abraham Loeb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01190 https://

Flux of Extragalactic Dark Matter in Direct Detection Experiments
We calculate the contribution of extragalactic dark matter to the local dark matter density and flux in the Milky Way. By analyzing the Galactic escape velocity as a function of direction, we establish the criterion for separating dark matter particles bound to the Milky Way and those originating from the Local Group environment. Our analysis reveals that approximately 25% of dark matter particles in the Solar neighborhood have an extragalactic origin, contributing nearly 38% of the total mass …

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
GAN: Is she bluffing?
AVON: She's not bluffing, is she, Travis?
TRAVIS: Do something reckless and find out.
AVON: Well now, I might just blow your head off.
BLAKE: How would you like to die, too, Supreme Commander?
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Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
LEYLAN: We might save the other three.
RAIKER: Right. At least we'll have tried.
LEYLAN: Right. Get them equipped and bring 'em down here...
[Artix studies the controls, and heads for the communicator.]
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Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
SINOFAR: We understand that men will kill for their beliefs.
GIROC: Since each of you wishes to destroy the other, we are going to give you the chance.
TRAVIS: A duel? Is that what you are suggesting?
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