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Cell Phone Conservation
Posted: July 9, 2014Some of the world’s most endangered forests may soon benefit from better protection, thanks to discarded treasures from the consumer society – mobile phones. A Californian technology startup, Rainforest Connection…
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Why is the US Throwing Away $1 Billion Worth of Fish Every Year?
Posted: July 9, 2014You’ve probably already seen the grim news about overfishing: scientists predict that world food fisheries could collapse by 2050, if current trends continue. That’s because 3/4 of the world’s fish…
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Vast reservoir of gas may fuel star creation in our galaxy
Posted: July 9, 2014The Milky Way may have found a solution to its gas shortage. Astronomers had calculated that our home galaxy possesses only enough fuel to forge new stars for just a…
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Climate Change Decadal Pause Study – Accidental Climate Mitigation
Posted: July 8, 2014Professors Jesse Thé and Roydon Fraser from the University of Waterloo are initiating a study on the potential cause of the decade long pause on global warming. This is an…
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Oceanic litter is widespread
Posted: July 8, 2014Litter is now found in even the most remote areas of the oceans, say scientists trying to understand how much rubbish is lying at the bottom of Europe’s seas. The…
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SAR11 and Methane
Posted: July 8, 2014With the focus on reducing carbon emissions, we often forget about methane – another greenhouse gas that is way more powerful as an atmospheric pollutant than carbon dioxide. Methane emissions…
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How Warming Antarctic Climate Affects Marine Life
Posted: July 8, 2014A long-term study of the links between climate and marine life along the rapidly warming West Antarctic Peninsula reveals how changes in physical factors such as wind speed and sea-ice…
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Condors vs. the NRA
Posted: July 7, 2014Recently scientists from the Zoological Society of London and Yale University assessed the world’s 9,993 bird species according to their evolutionary distinctiveness and global extinction risk. At number three on…
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For some birds, family matters.
Posted: July 7, 2014Extraordinary co-operation by sociable weavers, which work together to build the largest nests in the world, is motivated by family ties, say scientists. New research, published in Ecology Letters, says…
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A Fine Line : New Program Predicts When Human Impact Becomes Too Much
Posted: July 6, 2014Scientists at Stanford University recently unveiled a new modeling program that can predict the response of the environment to the land-use changes of human communities. Using their model, they found…
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