"You don’t want to trade one crisis for another.” China is the world leader in solar power, but the country’s policies could be harming biodiversity, a new analysis finds
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- On Earth, life may have emerged not once, but twice. A new study pinpoints ancient genetic differences between our planet’s earliest organisms, bacteria and archaea, which hint at a common origin from a single, deep-sea source that was itself not yet truly
