The Scientists Fighting to Save Us From a World Without Coffee

Climate change is threatening your morning caffeine fix.

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Sundar Pichai just hinted at how Google will make money from maps, and it sounds like lots of ads

Google Maps is one of the company's most popular services, but when it comes to bringing in revenue, Maps is not pulling its weight. That's by design — Google admits it has been slow to monetize the app. "We take a long term view," Google CEO Sundar Pichai told a Wall Street analyst who inquired about potential plans to turn Maps into a more significant moneymaker during the company's Q1 earnings call on Thursday.

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Female dragonflies fake sudden death to avoid male advances

Female dragonflies use an extreme tactic to get rid of unwanted suitors: they drop out the sky and then pretend to be dead. Rassim Khelifa from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, witnessed the behaviour for the first time in the moorland hawker dragonfly (Aeshna juncea). While collecting their larvae in the Swiss Alps, he watched a female crash-dive to the ground while being pursued by a male. The female then lay motionless on her back. Her suitor soon flew away, and the female took off once the coast was clear.

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Fire still blazes in Lukoil’s Komi oil field

The fire in Lukoil’s oil field in Shchelyabozh, near the Komi town of Usinsk, started 10th April and has since created a column of black smoke visible for tens of kilometers away. A representative of the company now says to 7x7-journal that new efforts are taken to extinguish the fire and the local population has been informed about. There are two wells burning, the both belong to the Alabushina field. On site are personnel and equipment from Lukoil and the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.

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Fecal Transplants At Southeastern Guide Dogs In Palmetto

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Japan environment ministry drafts emergency declaration over rising deaths of coral

Japan's environment ministry has drafted an emergency declaration over rising coral deaths in waters surrounding the country. Following a meeting of dozens of top environmentalists, the ministry expressed concerns that the corals could be extinct by 2070. To reduce the decay of coral reefs, the ministry has proposed a series of initiatives, including the development of new technologies to cultivate and transplant corals in various locations.

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U.K. startup uses recycled plastic to build stronger roads

The innovative process replaces much of the crude oil-based asphalt in pavement with tiny pellets of plastic created from recyclable bottles.

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