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If someone set out to draw up a problem that people would not care about, it would look exactly like climate change. Psychologists studying the issue say that the now-familiar warnings kick at emotional dead spots in all human brains -- but especially in American brains.

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The Green Lantern

Broad environmental risks have to be balanced against more-immediate hazards, such as the danger that a child or a pet might accidentally consume a toxic drug that's lying in a trash can or that someone might steal medication.


Very-high-energy particles from outside the solar system, which can harm astronauts, spacecraft computers and electronic systems, are increasing and are now at a "space age" high, according to NASA researchers.


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