The United Nations released a new report warning the world will miss its climate target of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial times and calling for ways to limit the resulting “overshoot.”

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As bird flu numbers rise rapidly in Australia and New Zealand, there are concerns of mass mortality among birds and mammals. Amandine Gamble comments on the impacts.

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Allen Carlson, an associate professor of government and an expert on Chinese foreign policy, says the disaster could become both a humanitarian and geopolitical test for China.

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Denise Green, director of the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection, says the controversy is as much about institutional incentives and the attention economy as it is about Galliano himself.

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Several U.S. states now bar registered voters from using student IDs to verify their identity at the polls. As younger generations place less emphasis on getting a driver’s license, those restrictions could become a major obstacle to voting for this key demographic, according Cornell University professor Neil Lewis, Jr.

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Christine A. Leuenberger is a senior lecturer in science and technology studies who looks at the social impact of borders and barriers, and the social studies of cartography. She says Lake Ontario shows US-Canadian cooperation.

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Tommaso Bondi, a professor of marketing at Cornell Tech and at the SC Johnson Graduate School of Management, says advertising is no longer a side business for Amazon.

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Lake Powell water levels hit records lows this weekend, highlighting a growing threat to water and electricity supplies for millions of people in the American Southwest. Cornell University experts Patrick Reed and Flavio Lehner have been monitoring the driving causes behind the water drop, and how bad it could get in the coming decades.

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OpenAI has announced models it was testing escaped their sandbox and compromised parts of AI platform Hugging Face's production infrastructure. The companies are partnering to address the security incident.

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An outbreak of cyclosporiasis, an intestinal illness that causes diarrhea, has been detected in 31 states. It can spread through water contaminated with home septage and municipal sewage, or food contacted by contaminated water.

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