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A new way to examine humanity's impact on the environment is to consider how the world would fare if all the people disappeared read more »
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The mud at the bottom of B.C. fjords reveals that solar output drives climate change - and that we should prepare now for dangerous global cooling read more »
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Some 20 million years ago, the Arctic Ocean was best described as a very large lake, whose fresh water leaked southwards through a narrow strait into read more »
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A new twist on an emerging theory says the Sun was born amid massive, short-lived stars that sculpted our solar system with intense radiation and vio read more »
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Imagine the shock of growing up in a loving family with people you call "Mum" and "Dad" and then, suddenly, learning that you are actually adopte read more »
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Research comparing silicon samples from Earth, meteorites and planetary materials, published in Nature (28th June 2007), provides new evidence that t read more »
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ENJOYING the waves on a sunny Sydney day, these unsuspecting surfers have no idea there are killers lurking just metres away. But, as these amazing s read more »
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How did the universe begin? Did it have a beginning at all? These questions may have been the subject of speculation and debate for millennia, but th read more »
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Canada will be doing its part this weekend to support the 24-hour, super-hyped global movement to fight climate change that is Live Earth. Although n read more »
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"Some who don't understand what is now at stake tried to stop this event on the Mall," the former Democratic presidential candidate said in a thin read more »
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Some say bottled water is unfriendly to the environment, partly because of the fossil fuels used to transport it and the difficulty disposing of plas read more »
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Google Inc. will release on Thursday an upgrade to its Google Earth Enterprise mapping system that for the first time will let users display two-dime read more »
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The jatropha bush seems an unlikely prize in the hunt for alternative energy, being an ugly, fast-growing and poisonous weed. Hitherto, its use to hu read more »
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These spectacular images are the most detailed true colour pictures of the Earth that we have ever seen.

The clear images, released by NASA, were read more »
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When NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander rocketed into space Saturday, it went, like all missions, with the assurance that as few Earth microbes as possible read more »
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August 21, 2007: By the time you finish reading this sentence, you'll be 25 miles closer to the planet Mars.

Earth and Mars are converging, and r read more »
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The Earth's shadow will creep slowly across the surface of the Moon early Tuesday, culminating in a total eclipse.

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KAHULUI – At least a couple of times a year, the moon’s orbit carries it through the shadow of the Earth, although it doesn’t always happen where isl read more »
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DENVER - The Earth's shadow will creep across the moon's surface early Tuesday, slowly eclipsing it and turning it to shades of orange and red.

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