What if we told you that you can make a real difference- that a
simple, effective process exists that can effectively impact the issues
posed by deforestation of the Rainforests? Would you take
10 minutes of your time every day to participate?
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]]> Top executives from oil and power companies, including experts from foreign countries, will chart out an energy roadmap for the North East in a two-day session beginning Wednesday.
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]]> Although no one noticed at the time, the Earth was almost hit by an asteroid last Friday.
The previously undiscovered asteroid came within 8,700miles of Earth but astronomers noticed it only 15 hours before it made its closest approach.

To put it
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]]> Indian campus have taken an initiative to come ahead and do their part. Banaras Hindu University and Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana campus are on their way to become the carbon-neutral campus in India.
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]]> Scientists are developing genetically modified trees for the forests of the future. Ann Peterman of the Global Justice Ecology Program tells host Bruce Gellerman that these designer trees don't measure up to what a real forest provides
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]]> Polling from 3 key states — and 5 key districts — finds strong support for the climate and clean energy bill. Every major recent poll has come to the same conclusion
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]]> Like a modern, micro version of The Thing, Antarctica's icy lakes have been discovered to house a surprisingly diverse community of viruses, including some that were previously unidentified. The finding could shed light on whether microbial life evolved
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]]> Hundreds of experts from 50 nations are set to agree on a "DNA barcode" system that gives every plant on Earth a unique genetic fingerprint
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]]> As game console makers attempt to perfect a hands-free, full-body controller, Sony has revealed its latest offering. Called the Interactive Communication Unit (ICU), the new motion body game control uses stereo cameras to watch a player and gauge depth.
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]]> together. Private tutor, personalized curriculum and the best part, scheduling of classes when I wanted. Their courses are like $600, instead of all the above offering.
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]]> The world will have to spend an extra $500 billion to cut carbon emissions for each year it delays implementing a major assault on global warming, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday.

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]]> US scientists have created a "bug atlas" of the human body highlighting microbe hotspots. One of the most surprising results of their study was the "personalised" nature of bacterial communities which varied from person to person.
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]]> The pickers working their way along the hillside, clipping bunches of small, dark purple grapes from the rows of vines and dropping them into plastic buckets are harbingers of a warmer planet.
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]]> Tuvalu’s PM is at the top and Manmohan scores better than Obama in world’s first league table of ‘green’ leaders...
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]]> Examining both anecdotal and empirical evidence, bestselling author Dr Larry Dossey assesses the human capacity for precognition - seeing the future - in his new book The Power of Premonitions. Genius or madness? You decide.
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]]> Neither Levitt, an economist, nor Dubner, a journalist, has any training in climate science—or, for that matter, in science of any kind. It’s their contention that they don’t need it!
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]]> A detailed analysis of the impacts clean-energy legislation could have on the U.S. economy. This analysis shows that these measures can generate roughly $150 billion per year in new clean-energy investments in the United States over the next decade.
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]]> Large blooms of tiny marine plants called phytoplankton are flourishing in areas of open water left exposed by the recent and rapid melting of ice shelves and glaciers around the Antarctic Peninsula.
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]]> Yet another study demonstrating how smart and aware pigs are, yet we still treat them like commodities with no feelings or intelligence. How the hell do humans justify this dichotomy??
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]]> Imagine staring into the sky and seeing a tiny yellow dot, gradually getting closer. That dot doubles in size every second, until it slowly darkens the sky.
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]]> Ed Miliband, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, announced the expansion of Britain's nuclear power capability yesterday in the face of opposition from environmentalists and concern from consumer groups,
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]]> Seventy percent of deforestation was concentrated in Sumatra and Borneo, the only islands that still house native orangutan populations.
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]]> President Obama is preparing to break the deadlock in negotiations on a global deal on climate change by announcing a target for cutting US greenhouse gas emissions.
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]]> The Maldives, threatened by rising sea levels because of global warming, on Monday pleaded with developed nations to reduce carbon emissions and said developing nations could change the outcome at climate talks in Copenhagen.
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]]> In UK seas there are 22 species of wildlife considered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to be facing the threat of being made locally extinct.

Once plentiful creatures such as common skate and Atlantic halibut are now list
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]]> Solar water disinfection is an idea so simple, it hurts. Now a Georgia Tech scientist may be on to a new high-tech twist that could make this no-cost, zero emission ultraviolet (UV) water disinfection method even more quick and effective.
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]]> Large blooms of tiny marine plants called phytoplankton are flourishing in areas of open water left exposed by the recent and rapid melting of ice shelves and glaciers around the Antarctic Peninsula.
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]]> The Aus' Federal Gov't has defended carbon capture and storage technology as a viable option for Australia to cut its emissions. The Opposition's emissions trading spokesman, Ian Macfarlane, says clean coal technology has passed Australia by.
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]]> An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf onto another and detonates in a thermonuclear explosion.
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]]> Once upon a time - roughly four billion years ago - Mars was warm and wet, much like Earth. Liquid water flowed on the Martian surface in long rivers that emptied into shallow seas.
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]]> In Alfred Bester's classic novel, The Stars My Destination, Gully Foyle, anti-hero of the future, is picked up after spending almost six months drifting alone in the outer reaches of the solar system.
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]]> U.S. scientists say they have determined why corals spawn for just a few nights in some locations, but elsewhere the spawning continues for several months.
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]]> As the climate gets warmer, arid soils lose nitrogen as gas, reports a new Cornell study. That could lead to deserts with even less plant life than they sustain today, say the researchers.
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]]> The 'Incredible India' campaign, an initiative by the Indian government to promote tourism, has won the World Travel Award 2009 for being
the best campaign of the year.
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]]> The legend of the lost Persian army has survived over two and a half millennia - despite a blatant lack of hard evidence.
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]]> Senator Brown says the Federal Resources Minister Martin Ferguson- "has made a bad situation worse. He should go." After 10 wks, and during the fire outbreak of 1st Nov, "Ferguson awards this oil company with new exploration licences." !!!!!!
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]]> We admit it. Spiders have become an obsession at Wired Science. It started in September when we reported on a spider-milking machine that was built to extract silk from a million golden orb-weavers, two dozen at a time, to make a 44-square foot cloth.
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]]> Hundreds of golden frog tadpoles hatched at Hotel Campestre in El Valle earlier this month, product of the Golden Frog Project that started in 2001. The Project aims to serve as Noah's Ark until a solution to control a fungus is found.
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]]> While pessimism continues to dog the lead-up to next month’s climate change talks in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, a new Philippine law aimed at streamlining the country’s efforts to mitigate and adapt to the effects of global warming has received a g
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]]> Nearly a year after the Bush administration put some of Utah’s most pristine lands on the auction block for oil and gas leasing, the Department of the Interior has handed down a report with recommendations aimed to overhaul the Bureau of Land Management's
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]]> Bones, jewelry and weapons found in Egyptian desert may be the remains of Cambyses' army that vanished 2,500 years ago.
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