Warning: This video contains descriptions of drug-taking and distressing images A new wave of synthetic drugs is sweeping across the United States, raising fear of a worsening drug crisis. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump pledged a crackdown on drug cartels, proscribing many as terrorist organisations. Drug overdose deaths have fallen from a peak of
As the wind blows through a tall oak tree beside us, she says: “The day I found out I was pregnant, I was on my way to commit suicide. I was so fed up with trying to quit. I was so fed up with living in a tent in the woods, using a bucket. I
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Two new reports from NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) program evaluate data from the Umbra X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite constellation for NASA’s Earth science research and applications community. The results of these evaluations help inform NASA program management and the user community about the quality of these commercial data for use in
