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• George Carlin on The Environment (HQ)

  
  Better World Movement — Authority: 144
  Jammin in New York: April 24th, 1992 The Planet is Fine, The People are Fucked Earth: 4500000000 years People: 200000 years The Earth Has Been Around 22500 TIMES Longer Than UsGeorge Carlin on The Environment (HQ) is a post from: Better World Movement George Carlin on The Environment (HQ) is a post from: Better ...
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• Biodiversity loss is Earths immense and hidden tragedy, Darwins natural heir warns

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  At the start of the Neolithic period – about 9500BC – scientists estimate that species were becoming extinct at a rate of 20-30 per year. Since the population explosion of modern humans, that is estimated to have increased to 20,000-30,000. Most have never been documented by scientists. And in a couple of decades, ...
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• Volcanoes affect life on earth

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 137
  Volcano Watch: Acting locally causes effects globally(Volcano Watch is a weekly article written by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, HVO.)A visit to Kilauea can bring a sense of awe and appreciation for the earth’s volcanoes. Over the past weeks, the east rift eruption has ...
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• MultiTool

  
  Simple Country Physicist — Authority: 129
  As a younger man I was a devotee of the action television program “McGyver”. One of the thematic cornerstones of this program was that the protagonist would haul out his Swiss Army knife, one of the simpler ones, and perform some necessary task to accomplish a technological nexus. This was one of the less ...
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• Extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings during mass wipeouts

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Washington, November 21 (ANI): In a new research, a team of paleontologists has found that extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings during mass extinctions.The research was conducted by Arnie Miller, University of Cincinnati professor of paleontology in the McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, and co-author ...
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• Consider Forex Education Before You Start Trading

  
  Make Cash Online Today — Authority: 145
  Sacrifice your time to learn Forex trading. It goes without saying that financial problems are our main concern and we can hardly consider anything else to be more important than these problems mentioned above. The matter is that our human personalities are mainly dispersed in the world of free market economy. And ...
  23 hours ago

• Climate Change: Do you want Congress to spend $2 to Save $1?

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 558
  D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h You may not believe global warming is happening. Or, you may not believe humans are responsible for it. But for the sake of argument, let’s assume human-caused global warming is indeed happening. Conceding this, it turns out that . . . The effort to curb carbon ...
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• Climate Not Culprit of Megafauna Extinction

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 729
  About 15,000 years ago, some of the largest mammals in North America disappeared off the face of the Earth.
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• On Hallowed (?) Ground

  
  Simple Country Physicist — Authority: 129
  Wonderful day yesterday, both exhausting and exhilarating. S tarted the day driving across the campus of the Black Warrior to the new chemistry facility. Its entrance is a stately three story rotunda lacking only a proper statue of its benefactor and namesake, probably something on the order of that Romanesque statue ...
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• Tracking A Mass Extinction Via Mastodon Poop

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 756
  The Younger Dryas period was an era of extinctions and ecosystem change that occurred just prior to the end of the last ice age. Its also a hot area of research right now, with some researchers suggesting that a comet or meteor struck the earth over North America, killing off megafauna like mammoths and mastodons. ...
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• Screens: Bonk: Brink of Extinction (Wii/360/PS3)

  
  Diehard GameFAN — Authority: 512
  Screens: Bonk: Brink of Extinction (Wii/360/PS3) Developer: Hudson Publisher: Hudson Genre: Platform Release Date: 2010 [Show as slideshow] ...
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• Spores in Mastodon Dung Suggest Humans Didn’t Kill Off Ancient Mammals

  
  80beats — Authority: 651
  A fungus found within ancient mammoth dung is providing scientists with clues about how the large ancient mammals collectively known as megafauna went extinct . The fungus, Sporormiella , produces spores in the dung of large herbivores. These are then preserved in the layers of mud and can provide an index of the ...
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• A Brief Prehistory Lesson

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 549
  A Brief PreHistory Lesson by Lew Sethics Wolf  calls a meeting with Man: “Look” he says, “you need us: you can’t hunt for shit, you got no claws, your teeth are useless in a fight, you can’t outrun anything, your sense of smell is a joke, your women and children slow you down. We’ll make a deal: ...
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• Give, Give, Give Me Moa, Moa, Moa

  
  It Is What It Is — Authority: 128
  Ladies and gentlemen, evil takes many forms. Some say that its the work of the devil. We are told by the wise and the learned that it is banal. But sometimes we must ask ourselves whether thats really so, or is it just their transparent agenda? Some people are fascinated by evil people , and others whose values ...
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• Death of the mastadon

  
  The Why Files — Authority: 107
  Its one of the biggest puzzles of paleontology: Why did North Americas large mammals go extinct shortly after the glaciers melted about 15k years ago? New study suggests that hunters get the credit -- or blame.
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• Deforestation emissions should be shared between producer and consumer, argues study

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Under the Kyoto Protocol the nation that produces carbon emission takes responsibility for them, but what about when the country is producing carbon-intensive goods for consumer demand beyond its borders? For example while China is now the worlds highest carbon emitter, 50 percent of its growth over the last year was ...
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• We didn’t kill off the Mammoth. Phew!

  
  Eideard — Authority: 491
  The slow decline in giant mammals in prehistoric North America.
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• Is the Tuna in Your Sushi Endangered?

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 729
  This just in from the American Museum of Natural History: unknowlingly consuming endangered tuna A Genetic Tool Uncovers the Species of Tuna Plated in Sushi Restaurants While most of us would never willingly consume a highly endangered species, doing so ...
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• Extinct Moa Rewrites New Zealand’s History

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 521
  A reconstructed image of the giant extinct moa.The evolutionary history of New Zealand’s many extinct flightless moa has been re-written in the first comprehensive study of more than 260 sub-fossil specimens to combine all known genetic, anatomical, geological and ecological information about the unique bird ...
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• Extinction by overfishing … thanks to an 80-year-old mistake

  
  Greenbang — Authority: 509
  An 80-year-old mistake could lead to the first extinction of a marine fish species by commercial fishing , new research has found. The European common skate, long classified as Dipturus batis, has been on the World Conservation Union’s Red List of Threatened Species since 2006. However, new research reveals that ...
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