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Bangladesh authorities have accused a container operator of failing to tell firefighters the existence of a chemical depot before it exploded, killing at least 49 people, nine of them firefighters. Key points: Firefighters say many deaths could have been avoided if they had known about the chemicals Nine firefighters were killed in the incident The …

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Climate change is slowing the conveyor belt of ocean currents carrying hot water from the tropics to the North Atlantic. Our research, published in Nature Climate Change, looks at the profound consequences for the global climate if this Atlantic conveyor belt sinks completely. We found that the collapse of this system, called the South Atlantic …

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