The last couple weeks of December can be goofy. Especially when you get into the rut of watching too much TV and spending too much time in your pajamas. You might find yourself watching a Comedy Central marathon of "Blue Collar Comedy," with Jeff Foxworth
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]]> The past decade has brought the dangers of climate change into sharp relief, often most clearly through images. Here’s a look at some of the most worrisome environmental changes through the lenses of scientists, satellites, explorers and humanitarians.
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]]> ARCHAEOLOGISTS have snapped the first picture of an ancient monument on the North York Moors near Scarborough which could date back more than 4,500 years to neolithic times.
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]]> You can keep answering questions for as long as you like - the quiz is never-ending! Come back once a week to play or play every day! Test your music trivia skills now and support the basic right to clean water.

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]]> The head of Russia's federal space agency has said it will work to divert an asteroid which will make several passes near the Earth from 2029.
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]]> A see-through goldfish created by Japanese scientists may be a humane alternative to dissection, as well as a unique pet, the London Daily Mail reports.
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A Blue Moon will happen on New Year's Eve 2009.

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]]> Russia is considering sending a spacecraft to a large asteroid to knock it off its path and prevent a possible collision with Earth, the head of the country's space agency said Wednesday.
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]]> John Holman, a lifelong champion of science and technology education, is among the scientists to appear in the New Year Honours list.

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]]> Susanna Solomon is still tending her shamba, but she won't eat the harvest from her farm when it's ready.
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]]> After four hours on the Nile in a rowboat with his two sons, fisher Hussein Abdel Malek tallies the morning catch: a plastic water bottle, an empty juice box, a half dozen plastic bags and two small tilapia.
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]]> Cheddar Gorge may be a well-known tourist spot but discoveries are still being made about the wildlife-rich site - including three new species of tree uncovered by a recent scientific survey
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]]> It sounds like the script of a Hollywood blockbuster, but Russia is considering sending a spacecraft to knock an asteroid off its path and stop a collision with Earth.
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]]> With most town centres currently festooned with fairy lights, you might not give this tree a second glance.But take a closer look and you'll realise that it's not been decorated but is in fact alive with little birds.

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]]> The National Weather Service Offices in Lake Charles and Shreveport have been busy confirming multiple tornadoes from a severe weather outbreak that unfolded on Wednesday afternoon (December 23rd) and continued into Christmas Eve (December 24th).

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]]> For the second time in a week, a prominent anti-mining activist has been assassinated in El Salvador. On Saturday, thirty-two-year-old Dora “Alicia” Recinos Sorto was shot dead near her home. One of her children was also injured in the shooting.
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]]> Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust's Loving our Limestone project aims to protect the future of fragile habitat, properly known as 'squill-spurge fescue grasslands
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]]> Indonesia will allow some infrastructure projects deemed in the public interest such as toll roads and geothermal energy plants to operate in protected forests, the chief economics minister said
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]]> The iconic image of the Moon as it appears in E.T. - when the wide-eyed Elliot and lovable E.T. make their flight to the forest on a bicycle - has been described as one of the most magical moments in cinema. Yet Moons as big as the one said boy and alien
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]]> Named after Aurora, the Roman goddess of the dawn, and Boreas, Greek for "northern wind," the aurora borealis is more commonly known as the "northern lights."
"Polar lights," however, is a more accurate name, as they occur in both the northern and south
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