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Bill Gates: Here’s My Plan to Improve Our World — And How You Can Help
I am a little obsessed with fertilizer. I mean I’m fascinated with its role, not with using it. I go to meetings where it’s a serious topic of conversation. I read books about its benefits and the problems with overusing it. It’s the kind of topic I have to remind myself not to talk about too much at cocktail parties, since most people don’t find it as interesting as I do.
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Vast iceberg poses risk to shipping
UK researchers have been awarded an emergency grant to track a vast iceberg in Antarctica that could enter shipping lanes.
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Rare Life Dating Back 3.5 Billion Years Found
Gloppy mats of microscopic life left the same signature on coastal and river bank sediments 3.48 billion years ago that they do today. Earth scientists recently discovered that signature, known as a “microbially induced sedimentary structure” (MISS), on rocks from 300 million years earlier than any previously known MISS fossils.
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Acid oceans could cost the world billions of dollars
Oceanographers gathered for a summit in Monterey, California, last month, producing a new report warning policymakers of the need to act.
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Rocky Mountains from 80,000 feet.
They look tiny compared to the rest of earth.
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Mount Etna Volcano Erupts, Illuminating the Sky Over Sicily
The most active volcano in Europe is up to its old tricks.
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Global Carbon Emissions Set to Reach Record 36 billion Tonnes in 2013
Global emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels are set to rise again in 2013, reaching a record high of 36 billion tonnes - according to new figures from the Global Carbon Project, co-led by researchers from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia (UEA).
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World Toilet Day aims to improve sanitation for 2.5 billion
As many of the devastating stories and photos of typhoon-wrecked Philippines show, one of the most pressing problems of the Philippines crisis is the lack of toilets and the collapse of water systems.
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Poverty: Not always with us
The world has an astonishing chance to take a billion people out of extreme poverty by 2030
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5 places already feeling the effects of climate change
Climate change forecasts tend to focus on how the world will look in a century, but some places need evaluation now.
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Even if emissions stop, carbon dioxide could warm Earth for centuries
Even if carbon dioxide emissions came to a sudden halt, the carbon dioxide already in Earth's atmosphere could continue to warm our planet for hundreds of years, according to Princeton University-led research published in the journal Nature Climate Change. The study suggests that it might take a lot less carbon than previously thought to reach the global temperature scientists deem unsafe.
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Climate Change Is Now in the Developing World’s Hands
his past weekend, exhausted diplomats from around the world climbed into fossil fuel–powered airplanes and bade good riddance to Warsaw, Poland. They had spent two weeks holed up in the frigid capital engaging in what has become an annual Kabuki dance over what to do about climate change.
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The Fathomless Mysteries of the Deepest Lake on Earth
A fisherman’s boat in Lake Baikal
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Why the Rest of the World Is Mad at India
It’s the type of powerful force that’s felt when 1.2 billion people clamor for more electricity—many of them trying to light, heat, and refrigerate their ways out of poverty; others throwing rupees at excessive air conditioning and other newfound luxuries. And it’s the type of unpredictable force that’s felt when the government of those 1.2 billion is in election mode, clamoring for votes by brazenly blocking progress at international climate talks.
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How the Himalayas Were Formed
Today I found out how the Himalayas formed. The Himalayas, which stretch some 2,900 kilometres between India, Pakistan, China, and Nepal, is the world’s tallest mountain range. In addition to Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain by peak elevation standing at 8,848 meters tall, the range also features several other mountain peaks over 8,000 meters.
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Encounter of the first kind: Rosetta on track for historic comet landing
Hundreds of millions of miles away and 10 years after launch, a European spaceship could be on the brink of discovering how life appeared on Earth.
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Abrupt Climate Disaster Threat Raises Call for Early Warning System
Approaching climate change "tipping points" mean an early warning system for global warming-triggered disasters is needed, suggest experts.
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Now We Can Predict Where And When Extreme Weather Is Likely To Hit Up To Two Months In Advance
Researchers developed an index that can predict areas at risk for extreme rainfall and tornadoes in the midwest, which could help communities prepare for...
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Climate extremes on the rise, with worse to come, IPCC leader says
Limiting global warming to the international goal of 2 degrees may trigger some important tipping points in the climate and much more extreme conditions will result if temperatures continue on their present trajectory, a US scientist has said.
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The Astronomical Hijinks of the Shortest Day of the Year
The solstice isn't for more than a week, but the earliest sunset of the year is already upon us. How's that possible?
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