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The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer sets its sights on habitable planets
Posted: January 21, 2015The NASA-funded Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer, or LBTI, has completed its first study of dust in the "habitable zone" around a star, opening a new door to finding planets like…
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Are Marine Mammals Adapting to Avoid Humans?
Posted: January 21, 2015Remarkable ocean research shows us that certain whale and seal species are reaching new depths and breaking records by diving so far away from the surface that experts are shocked that…
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India's Tiger Population on the Rise
Posted: January 21, 2015India’s tiger population has significantly increased according to the 2014-15 India tiger estimation report released today. Recent years have seen a dramatic rise in numbers– from 1,411 in 2006 to…
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Coffee found to reduce malignant melanoma risk
Posted: January 21, 2015Both epidemiological and pre-clinical studies have suggested that coffee consumption has a protective effect against non-melanoma skin cancers. However the protective effect for cutaneous melanoma (malignant and in situ) is…
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Shell Slapped with Near-$1 million Fine for Falsely Selling Green Motor Fuel
Posted: January 20, 2015The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a settlement with threecompanies affiliated with Shell Oil Company to resolve Clean Air Act violations, including selling gasoline and diesel fuel that…
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What happens with all the organic carbon released from melting glaciers?
Posted: January 20, 2015As the Earth warms and glaciers all over the world begin to melt, researchers and public policy experts have focused largely on how all of that extra water will contribute…
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Rutgers study shows sea level rising faster than thought
Posted: January 20, 2015Researchers at Rutgers and Harvard universities found that between 1901 and 1990 sea-level rose at a rate of about 1.2 millimeters per year, compared to about 1.5 millimeters as calculated…
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Why Certification is Critical for the Industrialization of Bamboo
Posted: January 19, 2015We’ve been down this path before; a new species, a new crop, a new product. A silver bullet plant that can be grown on degraded land and provide exactly what…
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Global wheat yields threatened by warming with serious consequences
Posted: January 19, 2015Just one degree of global warming could cut wheat yields by 42 million tonnes worldwide, around 6% of the crop, writes Paul Brown – causing devastating shortages of this staple…
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Planting Milkweed for the Monarch's? Be sure to use the native species!
Posted: January 18, 2015Sometimes we do the wrong thing for the right reasons. That appears to be the case for countless Americans hoping to aid the monarch butterfly. Hearing that pesticides have destroyed the…
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