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Acupuncture on a Tiger: Cool New Procedure or Endangerment?

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An Israeli zoo is making headlines for using acupuncture to try to ease the pain of one of its mature tigers, but is this really in the tiger’s best interests? Pedang, a 14-year-old male Sumatran tiger who is housed at the open-air Ramat Gan Sa...

Climate Change Could Endanger More Animals Than We Thought

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A new study presents startling findings that rapid climate change may threaten many more species of plants and animals than previous measures have led us to believe. The study, one of the biggest of its kind, found that only 6–9% of birds...

A $1 Patch Could Take the Pain Out of Vaccines

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Vaccines are a medical wonder, but at the moment they are a pain: unpleasant for the recipient and difficult and costly to transport and store. In answer to this, scientists have now created a potentially revolutionary vaccine patch that is painless ...

Russia Votes to Gag Its Gay Community, and Then Some

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Russia’s lawmakers say gay people are such a threat to children that there is a need to ban transmitting knowledge of homosexuality in the public sphere, and the Duma has now passed a bill to that effect. The law received a 436-0 on Tuesday, Ju...

CO2 on Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.) Pollen Production

by marjolein s.

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One of the clearest changes is earlier onset of spring and lengthening of the growing season. We designed the present study to examine the interactive effects of timing of dormancy release of seeds with low and high atmospheric CO2 on biomass, reprod...

Indigenous Peoples:How To Be Their Ally

by BMutiny T.

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How To Be An Ally To Indigenous Peoples Text & Sponsor: Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign www.honorthetworow.org 2013 marks the 400th Anniversary of the Two Row Wampum Treaty between the Dutch and the Haudenosaunee {Iroquois}. T...

Solar Wind Energy Tower Receives Patent

by Alice C.

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Solar Wind Energy Tower Receives Patent For Atmospheric Energy Extraction Device by Staff WritersAnnapolis MD (SPX) May 28, 2013 File image. Solar Wind Energy Tower has been awarded an allowance of Patent Application Number 13/098,476, titled "A...

Top 50 Solar Energy Stories Of The Year (Part One: #1-10)

by Alice C.

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Top 50 Solar Energy Stories Of The Year (Part One: #1-10) June 1, 2013Zachary Shahan We’re trying to get more solar energy stories going over on Planetsave. To catch readers up, I’m doing a short series on the top 50 s...

Bees all u should know

by marjolein s.

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For much of the past 10 years, beekeepers, primarily in the United States and Europe, have been reporting annual hive losses of 30 percent or higher, substantially more than is considered normal or sustainable. But this winter, many U.S. beekeepers e...