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Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age ended, global temperatures rose and the early Holocene began, during which time ...

In June 2024, the Canadian government lifted the moratorium on northern cod fishing in Newfoundland and Labrador after 32 ...

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For a while now, the world’s biggest technology companies have been shifting their most demanding AI workloads toward the ...

As the race to control the Arctic intensifies, more research is focused on how to optimize service member performance in the ...