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It’s no secret that plant life is essential to the battle against pollution. The significance of the role it plays may have been understated, however. The research, led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., uses observations, gene expression studies, and computer modeling to show that deciduous plants absorb [...]

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La Nina will be the dominant climate factor influencing weather across most of the U.S. this winter. The Pacific Northwest should brace for a colder and wetter than average winter, while most of the South and Southeast will be warmer and drier than average through February 2011, according to the annual Winter Outlook released Oct. [...]

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The “Asian Unicorn” as it is dubbed in the media is a rare animal that hasn’t been photographed in over 10 years. The saola of Laos and Vietnam was captured recently and photographed. The Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (also known as Laos) announced on September15 that in late August villagers in the [...]

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Science sure is accurate on this whole global warming thing isn’t it? Every couple of months a new report on how fast the ice is melting is contradicted by the previous reports. That doesn’t mean it isn’t actually happening though so those of you that want to claim this a victory for your anti-global warming [...]

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Oddly enough I was just reading about this last week when I ran a crossed a discussion on terraforming on some other website. The short of it is that terraforming is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to be similar to those of Earth to make it habitable [...]

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If you follow the claims of Global Warming at all there seem to be new factors jumping into the fray everyday. Mostly humans in some shape, or form, but I bet you never considered ancient hunters as a source of Apocalypse. Hunters who took out the last of the whoolly mammoths are being held accountable [...]

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More evidence that short sample sizes can be skewed to look like anything. Oh wait…did I just say that? This is always my first thought when I read a title such as this. That the sample size is way too small to draw very conclusive results. I don’t disregard them mind you, but I definitely [...]

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New studies suggest that rather than tens of millions of species on planet Earth, there may actually be less than 10 million. A University of Melbourne-led study, based on a new method of estimating tropical insect species — the largest and one of the most difficult groups on the planet to study — suggests that [...]

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I’m sure you remember all the talk that stemmed from President Reagan’s administration about “Star Wars”. The name has changed, but space weapon research is still quite heavily funded. Space.com has a good article about some of the more recent weapon/vehicle testing that has been done in space here. Interestingly enough, I see this article [...]

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So…someone actually used some far reaching data to try and figure out some of the climate change issues. In this case 1.2 million years of Earth orbital cycles. UC Santa Barbara geologist, Lorraine Lisiecki, discovered a pattern that connects the regular changes of Earth’s orbital cycle to changes in Earth’s climate. Published in the scientific [...]

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