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Special SNAP program could improve maternal health, researchers say
KAIT 8 - Arkansas
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July 8, 2025
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT/Edited News Release) - Expanding awareness of the WIC program and improving access to WIC-approved foods could help boost maternal and infant health in Arkansas, according to researchers at the University of Arkansas for...
UAMS researchers find new way to boost Arkansas's maternal & infant health
KTHV - Arkansas
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July 7, 2025
UAMS researchers recently found that improving the USDA’s SNAP program for Women, Infants, and Children could help boost maternal & infant health across Arkansas. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A new study by researchers at the University of Arkansas for...
Increased WIC Participation Could Be Key to Improving State Maternal Health Rates, UAMS Researchers Find
UAMS
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July 7, 2025
View Larger Image July 7, 2025 | LITTLE ROCK — Expanding awareness of the WIC program and improving access to WIC-approved foods could help boost maternal and infant health in Arkansas, according to researchers at the University of Arkansas for...
Australia's climate visa: A model for sinking islands?
Deutsche Welle
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July 9, 2025
In the tiny South Pacific nation of just over 10,000 people, one in three citizens has already entered the ballot for a world-first climate visa which would allow them to permanently migrate to Australia. Tuvalu is classified as being extremely...
Purdue Research Foundation to help lead expedition to locate lost Amelia Earhart aircraft
WANE - Indiana
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July 3, 2025
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- On the 88th anniversary of her disappearance, the Purdue Research Foundation is teaming up with the Archaeological Legacy Institute on an expedition to locate Amelia Earhart's lost aircraft. According to a news release, the...
Russia's shadow tanker fleet has tripled since 2022 – research
Ukrainska Pravda
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Stock Photo: Getty Images The size of Russia’s so-called shadow fleet of oil tankers has grown from fewer than 100 vessels at the beginning of 2022 to between 300 and 600 by early 2025, depending on the counting method. Source: Safety4sea.com,...
Purdue Research Foundation Tries to Find Amelia Earhart’s Lost Plane
WIBC 93.1 FM - Indiana
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July 2, 2025
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.–The Purdue Research Foundation believes they might have a positive lead on how to find Amelia Earhart’s lost plane. On July 2, 1937, Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to become the first female pilot...
‘Maybe the greatest opportunity ever’: Researchers announce new expedition to locate Amelia Earhart’s lost plane
Yahoo News
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WGN) — Nearly 90 years after Amelia Earhart mysteriously disappeared while attempting to circumnavigate the globe, researchers have announced a new expedition to locate the aviation pioneer’s lost aircraft. On Wednesday,...
Purdue Research Foundation joining efforts to locate Amelia Earhart's lost plane
WTHR - Indiana
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The expedition is taking place in November 2025. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — On July 2, 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first around-the-world flight along the...
Purdue Research Foundation and Archaeological Legacy Institute to embark on expedition to identify Amelia Earhart’s missing plane
Purdue University - Indiana
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July 2, 2025
In recognition of PRF’s contribution, Earhart intended to give the plane to Purdue upon her return, where it would be used to further scientific research in aeronautics. Although she never returned, the Purdue-Earhart connection remains strong....
USAID Cuts Could Transform U.S. Ties to Pacific Islands
Foreign Policy
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July 8, 2025
In February, the ambassadors to the United States of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau met with U.S. officials to raise concerns about the rush of executive actions since U.S. President Donald Trump took office...
The Real Impact of a Nuclear Bomb
The Cipher Brief
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July 8, 2025
FINE PRINT / OPINION — “This report explores the environmental effects and societal and economic consequences that would be expected to follow in the weeks-to-decades after a nuclear war. The exploration begins…with the consideration of four...
Ocean Explorers map and maritime archaeology at Iron Bottom Sound
Solomon Star
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July 8, 2025
Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII in the Pacific, Dr. Robert Ballard leads a team aboard E/V Nautilus exploring the shipwrecks of Guadalcanal. The Ocean Exploration Trust (OET)’s exploration vessel (E/V) Nautilus is underway on its...
Scientists chart radiation at WA nuclear blast site 70 years on
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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June 22, 2025
Cam McGurk's stories of one of Australia's most heavily irradiated areas come drenched in warm Pilbara sunshine. "I actually spent my honeymoon at the Montebello Islands," Mr McGurk, a longtime member of the Ashburton Anglers fishing club, said....
The search for heat-resilient corals moves forward in the Marshall Islands
Island Times
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June 13, 2025
In April, partners in the Scaling up identification, protection, and local management of coral reefs resistant to future climate stress project gathered in Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), to continue ongoing efforts to identify...
Hands-on livestock training held at Kumoi Farms
Marianas Variety
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THE CNMI Department of Lands and Natural Resources, the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, and Australia’s Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry or ADAFF are training residents of Guam, Palau, and the CNMI in animal husbandry and...
Why some people have no sense of direction, according to science
The i paper
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June 21, 2025
Your sense of direction, or lack of it, might be influenced by where you were brought up Ever wondered why some people have no sense of direction? Why they start walking the wrong way, even when they’re looking at Google Maps on their phone? There...
The Rainbow Warrior 1985-2025 | Part 2: Nuclear Refugees In The Pacific - The Evacuation Of Rongelap
Scoop
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On the last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior prior to its sinking by French agents in Auckland harbour on 10 July 1985 the ship had evacuated the entire population (320) of Rongelap in the Marshall Islands. After conducting dozens of above-ground...
Arkansas WIC participation far below national average; advocates push for increased enrollment
Arkansas Times
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July 8, 2025
Just over a third of eligible Arkansans participate in federal nutrition assistance aimed at low-income women and children, the second-lowest participation rate in the nation, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....
Arkansas Advocate: State WIC participation far below national average; advocates push for increased enrollment
Arkadelphian - Arkansas
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July 8, 2025
By TESS VRBIN | Arkansas Advocate Just over a third of eligible Arkansans participate in federal nutrition assistance aimed at low-income women and children, the second-lowest participation rate in the nation, according to the U.S. Centers for...