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This year's $890,000 Balzan Prizes awared for research on aging, restorative justice, climate crisis
MILAN (AP) — An Australian criminologist specializing in restorative justice and a U.S. scientist whose work helps address the climate crisis are among the winners of this year’s Balzan Prize announced Monday. The four annual prizes by the International Balzan Foundation...
Dry desert heat blasts much of the US Southwest despite some cooling rain in Phoenix
PHOENIX (AP) — Daytime desert heat is blasting much of the U.S. Southwest, but some monsoon rain spelled brief weekend relief for the city of Phoenix. The National Weather Service in Phoenix reported the low temperature dipped around dawn Sunday to 79 Fahrenheit (32.2 Celsius)...
Tiny Kuwait, in grip of desert summer heat, announces power cuts after fuel disruption
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Tiny, oil-rich Kuwait on Sunday instituted rolling blackouts in several residential neighborhoods despite high summertime temperatures in the desert emirate. The state-run KUNA news agency blamed “a fuel supply disruption” for the blackouts,...
Green agendas clash in Nevada as company grows rare plant to help it survive effects of a mine
GARDNERVILLE, Nev. (AP) — A botanist gently strokes the pollen of endangered wildflowers with a paintbrush as she tries to reenact nature inside a small greenhouse in the shadow of the Sierra Nevada. It's part of a lithium mining company's grand experiment intended to help keep an...
Blazing hot surfaces are a danger for catastrophic burn injuries in the urban desert Southwest
PHOENIX (AP) — Ron Falk lost his right leg, had extensive skin grafting on the left one and is still recovering a year after collapsing on the searing asphalt outside a Phoenix convenience store where he stopped for a cold soda during a heat wave. Now using a wheelchair, the...
Scorching heat in the US Southwest kills three migrants in the desert near the Arizona-Mexico border
PHOENIX (AP) — Three Mexican migrants have died in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico border as high temperatures soar well into the triple digits across parts of the Southwest. The U.S. Border Patrol reported Friday that the bodies of two men, ages 44 and 18, and...
