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]]> I have just come back from Everest, and I saw the mountain in a very different light.

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]]> Seven thousand years ago, about 100 km from the contemporary port city of Arica in Chile, a child died. The grieving parents did not want to part with the last remains. They removed the head and internal organs of the child, stuffed it with animal hide
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]]> A call to all in the lead up to Copenhagen and in recognition that on a safe future we are all Interdependent.
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]]> Vegans have lower bone densities than non-vegans, say Australian researchers. But the news isn't all bad, with the study finding an animal-free diet doesn't translate into more fractures.
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]]> Two years after scientists concluded that a breed of wild sheep on a remote Scottish island was shrinking over time, a study released Thursday revealed why: milder winters tied to global warming
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]]> A fundraising campaign to rescue threatened Wildlands in Central Mexico, critical habitat in the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve
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]]> When anyone hears about Islas Marías, they immediately relate them to the famous prison in the movie “Islas Marías” with Mexican movie icon Pedro Infante, where you could clearly see the rudeness and cruelty of the inmates and the authorities in charge
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]]> This was created to explain 'global warming'[sic] to a child. Looks interesting, and only $5.99!!! [Illustrations are kind of David Hockney & Andy Warhol-ish----simple, yet subliminally comminicative]
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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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]]> The energy system of the future is being founded now.

New energy systems and technologies are growing on an accelerating curve:
• Buildings that are green, super-efficient and fully managed by digital technologies have become economically competitive.
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]]> Puffins living in one of the most remote places in Britain are to be fitted with GPS tracking devices to help scientists to discover why their numbers are falling.
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]]> When Martin Jones met his wife four years ago, he never imagined that one day he would get to see what she looked like. The 42-year-old builder was left blind after an accident at work more than a decade ago.
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]]> The M/V Auriga Leader, part of a demonstration project by the Port of Long Beach, Toyota and Tokyo-based shipping company NYK Line, is the first ship to use solar energy to help fill all of the vessel's power needs, rather than to run auxiliary lights
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]]> When Anders Åhlén, a detective superintendent at the Stockholm police, was about to move out from his office, he discovered a bag covered with dust. When he opened it he found a treasure that had been lost for 25 years.
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]]> You might call it "CSI Ancient Greece". A computer technique can tell the difference between ancient inscriptions created by different artisans, a feat that ordinarily consumes years of human scholarship.
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]]> Mainly dry and hot conditions have been the main weather story across the state, and this trend will continue into the 4th of July Weekend.
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]]> Data from the latest Greenpeace expedition should help shine a spotlight on Greenland, the world's ground zero of global warming, where melting glaciers contain enough ice to eventually raise sea levels around the world by as much as 23 feet.
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]]> The recent increase in area burned by wildfires in the Western United States is a product not of higher temperatures or longer fire seasons alone, but a complex relationship between climate and fuels that varies among different ecosystems, according....
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]]> New research, which reconstructs the extent of ice in the sea between Greenland and Svalbard from the 13th century to the present indicates that there has never been so little sea ice as there is now. The research results from the Niels Bohr Institute...
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]]> The Obama administration has forgiven Indonesia $30 million in debt payments. In return, the government of the Southeast Asian archipelago nation has agreed to spend the money on protecting the rainforests of Sumatra, the sixth largest island in the
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]]> The government of President Rafael Correa now wants help to keep pristine one of Ecuador’s most important remaining jungle areas, in the Yasuní national park.
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]]> We are not independent of the actions of all other global citizens. On July 5th we call to world leaders to recognize our global interdependence and act as global citizens for a safe future.
SEAL THE DEAL in Copenhagen http://www.sealthedeal2009.org/
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]]> Australian palaeontologists say they have discovered three new dinosaur species after examining fossils dug up in Queensland.
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]]> Like the wool sweater that emerges from the dryer a size too small, global warming seems to be shrinking sheep.On average, wild Soay sheep on Scotland's island Hirta are 5 percent smaller today than they were in 1985, according to a team of researchers
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]]> A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered. Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another
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]]> Genetically modified (GM) crops that can withstand environmental stress may be one answer to climate change but a powerful lobby is building up against the patenting of technologies involved, especially when they are derivatives of traditional farmers’ ..
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]]> Los Angeles will eliminate the use of electricity made from coal by 2020, replacing it with power from cleaner renewable energy sources, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said.
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]]> The village dates back to the Stone-Copper Age, and is located in the locality of Chanadzhik, near the village of Sushina and the Ticha Dam.
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]]> An archaeological excavation in southern Vietnam of a site more than 3000 years old has shed new light on how the death of young children was viewed by community members and uncovered the oldest clear evidence of rice agriculture in the region.
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]]> An unacceptable number of species are still being lost forever despite world leaders pledging action to reverse the trend, a report has warned.
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]]> The report, "Wildlife in a Changing World," estimates that 22 percent of known mammals are either facing the threat of extinction or are already extinct. It found great stress for amphibians, and more than 30 percent classified as threatened or extinct.
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]]> Climate change has caused a flock of wild sheep on a remote northern Scottish island to become smaller, according to an unusual investigation published on Thursday.
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]]> If the band continues to migrate at just less than a mile (1.4 kilometers) a year, which is the average for all the years it has been moving north, then some Pacific islands near the equator -- even those that currently enjoy abundant rainfall -- may be d
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]]> A look at some of the alternative cars with revolutionary technology that are under development, from the Scuderi split-cycle engine to the air car by Zero Pollution Motors and the Terrafugia Transition flying car.
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]]> While politicians around the world debate how to reduce human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, scientists are making some unsettling discoveries about another developing greenhouse gas problem: nature’s own emissions.
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]]> On June 22, the Supreme Court ruled that the Clean Water Act allows a mining company to pump hundreds of thousands of gallons per day of toxic waste slurry into a pristine lake in Alaska. Ask Obama administration officials Lisa Jackson, EPA Administrator,
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