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Every hour, three species go extinct on Earth, be they plants or animals. We lost a couple while I wrote this. And by this time next week, the planet [ Read More ] »
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Nearly 40 astronauts on Friday became the first to ride aboard a NASA tourist attraction that recreates a ride aboard the space shuttle, complete wit [ Read More ] »
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Pepsico recently bought $2 million worth of renewable energy credits— that’s 1 billion kilowatt-hours— in order to reduce their impact on the earth, or to green their image, depending on who you ask. [ Read More ] »
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If you discovered that one of the rarest geographical regions in British Columbia—home to more than one third of the province’s species at risk and over 95 per cent of BC’s working rangelands—was loc [ Read More ] »
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There are few who would call postal delivery exciting. The reasons for this attitude are difficult to pin down, but it seems there is something inherent about the meticulous sorting and distribution [ Read More ] »
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Two space rocks in our solar system's outer asteroid belt might contain mineral evidence for a new class of asteroids or long eroded mini-worlds. The asteroids, (7472) Kumakiri and (10537) 1991 RY16 [ Read More ] »
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The constellations of Andromeda, Hydra and Vulpecula are now just a mouse click away for amateur star-gazers, following the launch of Google Sky. The tool is an add-on to Google Earth, a program that [ Read More ] »
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Drone aircraft flying in loose formation through the brown cloud that forms over the Indian subcontinent have revealed that the nearly two-mile thick haze exacerbates atmospheric warming by 50 percent. [ Read More ] »
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The so-called thermohaline conveyor belt--a strong northward flow of warm water near the surface of the Atlantic balanced by a southward flow of cold water near the bottom--carries heat from warm equatorial regions to the frigid north, keeping Europ [ Read More ] »
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Earth is roughly 4.5 billion years old, but her early eons were tempestuous. Not even rock survives from the first 500 million years of her life--an eon known as the Hadean--because geologists speculate the planet's surface boiled and bubbled with [ Read More ] »
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More than 30 states have passed or are considering “renewable energy portfolio standards” that require utility companies to generate some portion of their electricity from renewable sources. Geothermal power plants, which tap hot subterranean water [ Read More ] »
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Jose Maliekal, an associate professor of earth sciences at the State University of New York at Brockport, explains:
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