ANIMALS - 'Busy' tanks bring out best in fish
Captive-bred fish will do better when released into the wild if they are reared in an interesting environment, a study says. ...
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ANIMALS - Microsoft billionaire donates to gorilla research
(AP)—Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is giving $1 million to the Jane Goodall Institute to study and protect gorillas in Africa. ...
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ANIMALS - Rare Przewalski wild horse gave birth thanks to artificial insemination for first time ever
It was once extinct in the wild, but it has been reintroduced to its habitat, though in limited numbers. This breakthrough should help it survive. ...
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ANIMALS - Seal birth captured on camera
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ANIMALS - Shark Week: 2013's best videos
A close encounter with a great white, a two-headed curiosity and a brave Welsh tourist feature in some of the year's shark stories ...
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CLIMATE - Act now or rising seas will sink our country, Marshall Islanders tell the world
The Marshall Islands, a sprinkling of coral atolls in the northern Pacific Ocean, are facing oblivion unless decisive global action is taken to combat climate change, a senior minister has warned. ...
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CLIMATE - Australia Faces Bigger Health Risks from Climate Change | Climate Central
A number of recent studies have shown a clear connection between a warming planet and increased health risks. ...
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CLIMATE - Can Farming Provide a Solution to Climate Change?: Scientific American
Farming is one of the few human activities that can pull CO2 from the atmosphere and store it safely ...
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CLIMATE - Carbon emissions to impact climate beyond the day after tomorrow
Future warming from fossil fuel burning could be more intense and longer-lasting than previously thought. This prediction emerges from a new study by Richard Zeebe at the University of Hawai'i who includes insights from episodes of climate change in the geologic past to inform projections of man-made ... ...Enclosure: image/jpeg http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/tmb/2012/atom.jp
CLIMATE - Cities Under Water, War and Heat, and New NOAA Head | Climate Central
The impact of climate extremes on violence, Obama new NOAA head nomination and a look at the U.S. cities under future seas. ...
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CLIMATE - Climate & Conflict: Warmer World May be More Violent | Climate Central
There is a strong causal link between climate extremes and increased likelihood of violence, from U.S. cities to the Middle East, a study found. ...
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CLIMATE - Ecosystems Face Unprecedented 'Climate Change Velocity' | Climate Central
The rate and magnitude of warming over the next century could rival anything seen over the past 65 million years. ...
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CLIMATE - Ignoring climate change is like driving on to a collapsed bridge
William Skaggs in Scientific American compares not taking action on the climate change crisis to driving towards accelerating towards a bridge that may have collapsed. ...
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CLIMATE - Sunburned in Siberia: Heat Wave Leads to Wildfires | Climate Central
A heat wave in Siberia has led to a surge in wildfires, releasing large amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. ...
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CLIMATE - Team develops more accurate model of climate change's effect on soil
Scientists from UC Irvine and the National Center for Atmospheric Research have developed a new computer model to measure global warming's effect on soil worldwide that accounts for how bacteria and fungi in soil control carbon. ...Enclosure: image/jpeg http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/tmb/2012/atom.jp
CLIMATE - Temperature alters population dynamics of common plant pests
Temperature-driven changes alter outbreak patterns of tea tortrix—an insect pest—and may shed light on how temperature influences whether insects emerge as cohesive cohorts or continuously, according to an international team of researchers. These findings have implications for both pest control ... ...
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ECONOMICS - It's just hot air: Britainâ??s low-carbon economy turns off irate investors
Government policies to tackle climate change are so "inadequate and inconsistent" that jobs and pensions will be threatened across the world, an influential group of investors has warned.
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ENVIRONMENT - A Picture is Worth: The divide between the plastics industry and green building
The war of words continues between those who say plastics are safe and those who don't ...
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ENVIRONMENT - Childless Cities? Bring In The Hipsters
At City Journal, Joel Kotkin and Ali Modarres ask an unusual question: "What are cities for?" They don't go so far as to say that cities are for raising children in families. But Kotkin and Modarres do strongly imply that without that teleological view of urban environments, cities become moronic playgrounds [...] ...
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GARDENS - Five Awesome Plants that Attract Beneficial Insects to Your Garden
In the constant struggle against garden pests, harness nature to do some of the work. Planting “insectary plants” in and around the garden will attract beneficial insects that destroy pests before they become a problem. Here are five of the best insectary plants to use... ...
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MOVIES - BRACE YOURSELVES 12th Doctor updates are com…
Create your own images with the Brace yourself meme generator ...
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PLANTS - Desert Shrubs Could Suck Up Carbon: Scientific American Podcast
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SCIENCE - Graphene Supercapacitors — Next-Generation Energy Storage Now One Step Closer
This article has been reposted from Green Building Elements. An entirely new strategy for engineering graphene-based supercapacitors has been developed by researchers at Monash University -- potentially leading the way to powerful next-generation renewable energy storage systems. The new strategy also opens up the possibility of using graphene-based supercapacitors in e ...
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SCIENCE - Physics Week in Review: August 3, 2013 | Cocktail Party Physics, Scientific American Blog Network
If this week's link fest has a theme, it might just be teleportation. I wrote about The Trouble With Teleportation for Nautilus this week, a.k.a., why ... ...
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WATER - Climate change pushing marine life towards the poles, says study
Marine species, more than land-based species, are altering their breeding, feeding and migration patterns ...
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WATER - Ocean Requiem: Amazing short film shows why we must protect our oceans (video)
It contains images that are as breathtaking as anything found in The Blue Planet or the water parts of Planet Earth. ...
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WATER - Emergency declared as Fukushima nuclear plant leaks radioactive water into ocean
Japan's Nuclear Regulatory Authority has said, on Monday, there is a new emergency at the Fukushima nuclear plant, thanks to a build-up of radioactive ground-water. Highly radioactive water has leaked into the ocean after an underground barrier was breached, the water is rising towards the surface, and is exceeding legal limits for radioactive discharge.http://www.examiner.com/article/emergency-declared-as-fukushima-nuclear-plant-leaks-radioactive-water-into-ocean?cid=db_articles
WIND - Here's A Concrete Plan For Wind Towers | EarthTechling
Iowa State engineering researchers say wind towers assembled from concrete segments could allow for reaching higher in the sky for better wind conditions. ...
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WORK - America's 20 Most Surprising Six-Figure Jobs - In Photos: America's 20 Most Surprising Six-Figure Jobs
Forbes combed through data gathered annually by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to find the 20 most surprising six-figure jobs. The BLS culls its information from surveys it mails to businesses, and it releases its Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates Data each spring. To make the cut for our list, the top-earning 10% of employees in the profession had to rake in m ...
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WORK - As Job Growth Lags, Companies Outsource Work To Freelancers Through The Cloud
In the face of the latest disappointing jobs report, a growing number of companies are outsourcing jobs to online freelancers. This expanding marketplace is likely to transform the way we work. ...
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WORK - Rich Millennials Think About Money Very Differently Than The Rest Of Us
Why wealthy millennials think differently about money. .. ...
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WRITE - Download 151 science fiction and fantasy stories from Tor for free!
Tor.com is celebrating its fifth birthday with a gift for all of us science fiction fans: all of the original stories published on the site over the last five years collected in a single ebook. Happy birthday, Tor! ...
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WRITE - The io9 Calendar: Your Ultimate Guide to August's Science Fiction!
Time for another heady glimpse into your future. There's almost too much amazing science fiction and fantasy for anyone to handle in August, which is why we've compiled this indispensible calendar. There are tons of conventions, mind-bending books, television shows... plus Elysium and Kick-Ass 2. It's the io9 calendar! ...
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