Police released a recording of a woman who dialled 999 to say her hamster had escaped as they pleaded with the public today to use the service only for genuine emergencies. In one call a woman tells the operator: "It's my hamster. It's got out of its cage
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]]> Scientists from Texas are batty over a new discovery which could lead to the single most important medical breakthrough in human history—significantly longer lifespans.
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]]> Greenpeace yesterday released the third iteration of its Sustainable Seafood scorecard, as well as a hefty report about how overfishing is destroying not just ecosystems and the environment, but threatening the future of the fishing industry itself.
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]]> Global food security in a changing climate depends on the nutritional value and yield of staple food crops. Researchers at Monash University in Victoria, Australia have found an increase in toxic compounds, a decrease in protein content and a decreased--
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]]> UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday that Burma’s junta chief Snr-Gen Than Shwe rejected his initial request to meet jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a rocky start to what he has called "a very tough mission" to win her freedom...
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]]> Hunted for centuries for its purported qualities as an aphrodisiac, asthma
cure and as a kind of living voodoo doll, the tiny primate known as the Slender Loris has long faced a battle just to survive.
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]]> It was Darwinian theory that did away with the werewolf. For much of recorded history, humans have reserved their greatest fears for dog-human hybrids like the werewolf. These beasts were once thought to be real, hiding behind every tree waiting for the--
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]]> Sources say embezzlement scandal, federal indictments may soon break concerning use of Wasilla Sport Complex building materials for Palin's home...
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]]> Delightful video of cats celebrating Fourth of July!
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]]> We've lost a great man, and a great member of Care2. The site connects to his page. Please go there, and leave a message, for Charles and his family.
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]]> Slow lorises are one of three species of loris maintained at the Lemur Center (the others are pygmy slow lorises and slender lorises). All three of these species are members of the family Lorisidae which includes lorises, galagos
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]]> Wal-Mart workers across the country are struggling with the company’s weak and unaffordable health benefits.Here are some of their stories—read them and then use the form on the right to tell your members of Congress to support real health care reform.
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]]> NY-CLASS proposes creating a safer alternative to the carriage-horse industry that will enhance the natural beauty, create a cleaner environment and foster a greater quality of life for all its residents. Additionally, NY-CLASS will aim to bolster the
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]]> Send a singing Billie the Chilean Sea Bass telegram to Trader Joe's! Everyone loves a singing telegram so it's a perfect and fun way to tell Trader Joe's managers that their customers want sustainable seafood!
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]]> 141-pg Amnesty report gives evidence of oil spill cover-ups, gas flaring near villages & waste dumping leading to dire pollution of wetlands & destruction of farming & fishing; in last 50 yrs 9m barrels worth of oilve leaked into land & rivers. Impunity
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]]> Just an eye opening thought, if the points on the top of the fence at a prison are pointed inward toward the prison, its to keep the prisoners inside right? So why are the points on the border fence between Mexico and the US pointed toward the US?
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]]> ...and below I reproduce four letters written by five of Mahmoud Abu Rideh’s six children, which should convince all but those with hearts made of stone that the government’s anti-terror policies have been nothing but a grave and profoundly disturbing,,,
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]]> A police dog handler could face prosecution after two German Shepherds he left in his car died in the sweltering heat
The dogs were left in his private vehicle in a police HQ car park as temperatures hit almost 30C.
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]]> Seventy-six dogs were seized Thursday from cages and sheds scattered around a Putnam County mobile home after an investigation of conditions the animals were under.
"We saw 76 dogs in cages," said Maj. Dwight Parker of the Sheriff's Office. "
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]]> The two herbivores and one carnivore, excavated from the Winton formation, roamed Australia during the Cretaceous period - 98 million years ago
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]]> Let's raise a massive global chorus immediately to support Obama’s statement that the settlements in occupied territory must stop, by joining our voices to a petition based on his very own words
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]]> Today, Mahmoud Abu Rideh, a Palestinian-born British resident with a British wife and six British children, has a hearing at the High Court in London to consider his request for internationally valid travel documents which would allow him to leave the cou
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]]> This loving mother cat in east China has taken pity on an orphaned puppy, raising it as her own offspring. The pup's real mother apparently died of a haemorrhage during childbirth.

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]]> Ditch the burgers, dogs and chicken this grilling season (if you haven't already), and make room for the veggies! Veggies and fruit are a delicious alternative to the usual barbecue fare. Portobello burger, anyone?
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]]> Sea Shepherd Sets Sights on a Mediterranean Campaign.
The Slaughter of the Bluefin Tuna Must be Halted
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]]> A nuclear weapons proliferation crisis is rapidly building in North Korea, Iran and beyond. But out of the spotlight, Global Zero, a new alliance of prominent diplomats, military and civic leaders, is beginning to persuade the nuclear powers that there
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]]> Dozens of baby girls in southern China have reportedly been taken from parents who broke family-planning laws, and then sold for adoption overseas.
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]]> Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said Friday she will resign this month and will not run for re-election as governor.
"We know we can effect positive change outside government at this moment in time," she said.
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]]> The tiger had entered the village in Satkhira, which is close to the border with India, and residents beat it with sticks because they feared for their lives, the head official for the Sundarbans mangrove forest told AFP.
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]]> World over, Ranthambhore National Park is famous for its wild tiger’s. This is a dry deciduous fragile eco-system where in the shade of tigers a lot of other animals survive. There are some animals like Indian Caracal, whose charisma is equivalent to
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]]> If you're feeling hot right now, imagine how you'd feel with a thick fur coat on. Animals around the world are trying to keep cool this summer with the help of ice-creams, sunglasses, sunblock and cold showers. Not so very different to humans, then ...
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]]> A dog named Stu has been kept from his owner at LA Animal Services for more than 4 years after biting the owner's assistant in the arm while she was trying to harness the dog after he had his ear torn by another dog.
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]]> Microscopic analysis of scratches on dinosaur teeth has helped scientists unravel an ancient riddle of what a major group of dinosaurs ate -- and exactly how they did it!
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]]> An elephant calf has starved to death in Indonesia, the eighth endangered Sumatran elephant to have died in the wild since May, environmental group WWF said Thursday.
WWF spokeswoman Syamsidar said the calf was believed to be the offspring of
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]]> Oil and gas leases have been a hot topic for a long time, especially since the controversial disruption of a BLM land sale by student activist Tim DeChristopher in Salt Lake City this past December. The sale which, according to some, was a midnight move
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]]> According to new research published online in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B (Biological Sciences) on July 1, 2009, a new fossil primate from Myanmar (previously known as Burma) suggests that the common ancestor of humans, monkeys and apes....
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]]> KOLKATA // Tigers in India are being killed at an alarming rate, with conservationists calling the situation a "disgrace" and warning that the country's national animal may soon become extinct.
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]]> If ever an issue deserved President Obama's promise of change, this is it. Mining syndicates are detonating 2,500 tons of explosives each day - the equivalent of a Hiroshima bomb weekly - to blow up Appalachia's mountains and extract sub-surface coal...
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]]> From a Harris hawk at Wimbledon to animals cooling off in Britain's heatwave - the pick of this week's images from the natural world
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]]> Pets rely on their owners to keep them safe during heatwaves. Rachel Dixon offers a brief guide to what you should and shouldn't be doing as the temperature soars.
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]]> A FARM shop near Middlewich has been slammed by an animal rights group for selling exotic meats like kangaroo steaks and crocodile fillets.
Justin Kerswell, campaigns manager for Viva, told the Guardian he was 'very disappointed' to see 'alte
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]]> Sea urchins are small and spiny, they have no eyes and they eat kelp and algae. Still, the sea creature's genome is remarkably similar to humans' and may hold the key to preventing and curing several human diseases, according to a University of .....
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]]> Besides posing threats to structures and landscapes on a local scale, melting permafrost emits carbon dioxide and methane, according to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), making permafrost a threat on a global scale
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]]> The U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that up to $32 million dollars of Recovery Act funding will be used to expand the harvest of hydroelectric power. “There’s no one solution to the energy crisis, but hydro-power is clearly
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]]> In its closing days of power, the Bush administration passed an eleventh-hour rule deregulating 1.5 million tons of hazardous waste.
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]]> This procedure, if it can be effectively industrialized, could allow many of today’s petrochemical products, including plastics, to instead be made from biomass.
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]]> Aid, trade suspended; OAS demands ousted president's return
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]]> Dog lovers around the world have reacted in horror to the recent news that the high profile case of pet dog “Bruce” may finally be over as a court orders he be destroyed in a few days time ending an exhaustive twenty one month battle to save him.
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