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Are we really a nation of animal lovers?Bristol UK (SPX) Apr 05, 2012 A new study has estimated that over 260,000 cats and dogs entered the care of UK rescue organisations during 2009, the first full year since the onset of the UK recession. The aim of the research was to estimate the number of cats and dogs, currently being cared for by UK welfare organisations, the proportion of time that these organisations were full to capacity and the number entering these organisations during a 12-month period. The University of Bristol study by Dr Corinna Clark and colleagues ... read more |
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  Is rainfall a greater threat to China's agriculture than warming? New research into the impact of climate change on Chinese cereal crops has found rainfall has a greater impact than rising temperature. The research, published in the Journal of the Science of Food ... more | .. |
  Thawing permafrost may have led to extreme global warming events Scientists analysing prehistoric global warming say thawing permafrost released massive amounts of carbon stored in frozen soil of Polar Regions exacerbating climate change through increasing global ... more | .. |
 Scientists find evidence that human ancestors used fire one million years ago An international team led by the University of Toronto and Hebrew University has identified the earliest known evidence of the use of fire by human ancestors. Microscopic traces of wood ash, alongsi ... more | .. |
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 Newly Discovered Foot Points to a New Kid on the Hominin Block It seems that "Lucy" was not the only hominin on the block in northern Africa about 3 million years ago. A team of researchers that included Johns Hopkins University geologist Naomi Levin has announ ... more | .. |
 Farmers Use GIS Technology for a Growing World Today's farmers have more technology at their disposal than ever before. One piece that is expected to greatly impact the production of food and fiber is geographic information systems (GIS) technol ... more | .. |
  Stickleback genome holds clues to adaptive evolution Scientists searching for genetic clues to vertebrate evolution have long been fascinated by the tiny marine stickleback fish, known for its ability to adapt and thrive in salty oceans or freshwater ... more | .. |
 Coldest antarctic water said disappearing The amount of coldest deep ocean water in the Southern Ocean, called Antarctic Bottom Water, has been decreasing for decades, researchers say. ... more |
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 New forage plant prepares farmers for climate changes Researchers, including plant researchers from the University of Copenhagen, have developed a new type of the corn-like crop sorghum, which may become very significant for food supplies in drought-pr ... more | .. |
  First targeted nanomedicine to enter human clinical studies A team of scientists, engineers and physicians from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), Harvard Medical School (HMS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ... more | .. |
 Rising CO2 levels linked to global warming during last deglaciation Many scientists have long suspected that rising levels of carbon dioxide and the global warming that ended the last Ice Age were somehow linked, but establishing a clear cause-and-effect relationshi ... more | .. |
 Thawing permafrost 50 million years ago led to global warming events In a new study reported in Nature, climate scientist Rob DeConto of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues elsewhere propose a simple new mechanism to explain the source of carbon th ... more |
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 ESA and NASA join forces to measure Arctic sea ice Marking another remarkable collaborative effort, ESA and NASA met up over the Arctic Ocean this week to perform some carefully coordinated flights directly under CryoSat orbiting above. The data gat ... more | .. |
 Burtele Foot Indicates Lucy Not Alone A new fossil discovery from Eastern Africa called the Burtele foot indicates Australopithecus afarensis, an early relative of modern humans, may not have been the only hominin to walk the plains and ... more | .. |
  EU carbon price falls on lower emissions Data released this week showing Europe's carbon emissions were lower than expected put more pressure on the price of allowances under the EU trading scheme. ... more | .. |
  Outside View: A clash of titans? Last Friday's Washington Post headline read "Romney to stress foreign policy" in the presidential race. The presumptive Republican nominee clearly recognized that it isn't entirely "the economy stupid." One way to win in November may be through discrediting Barack Obama's foreign policy. ... more |
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Russia strikes Kyiv after first stage of major prisoner swap
Growing Arctic military presence worries Finland's reindeer herders
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  US forecasters see drop in 2012 Atlantic hurricanes The number of 2012 Atlantic hurricanes will be below average this season due to a cooling of tropical waters and the potential development of El Nino conditions, US forecasters said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Worst rains in 14 years wash out Ecuadoran farmers Thousands of poor Ecuadoran farmers are watching their livelihoods being washed away, hit by the worst rainfall in 14 years which has cost 24 lives and left a heart-breaking trail of damage. ... more | .. |
  At least eight dead in Nairobi landslide Massive boulders crashed onto houses Wednesday in Mathare, a Nairobi slum, killing at least eight people after a night of heavy rains, police and the Kenyan Red Cross said. ... more | .. |
  Nobel laureates urge China to talk to Dalai Lama Twelve Nobel laureates including South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu have written to China's president urging him to open talks with the Dalai Lama after a series of self-immolations by Tibetans. ... more |
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  Chilean court approves huge Patagonia dam Chile's Supreme Court Wednesday removed the last legal obstacle to building a giant $2.9 billion hydroelectric complex in the Patagonian wilderness, rejecting a bid by environmentalists to block it. ... more | .. |
  Powerful tornadoes strike Texas At least two tornadoes ripped across northern Texas Tuesday, flipping huge trucks like toys, tearing off roofs and grounding flights but apparently causing only minor casualties. ... more | .. |
 Landmark trial of 1980 Turkish coup leaders opens The two surviving leaders of Turkey's 1980 coup went on trial Wednesday at an Ankara courthouse where judges rejected pleas by the ailing defendants that they should be spared prosecution. ... more | .. |
 In blow for sceptics, carbon dioxide ended last Ice Age Carbon dioxide (CO2) was the big driver that ended the last Ice Age, scientists said on Wednesday in a study that undermines a key argument by global-warming sceptics. ... more |
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Doubt cast on claim of 'hints' of life on faraway planet
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 159 rhinos poached in S.Africa this year: minister Almost 160 rhinos were poached in South Africa in the first three months of this year as trade in the animals' horns drives up the illegal killings, a minister said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
Poland to ban Monsanto's GM maize Poland will impose a complete ban on growing the MON810 genetically modified strain of maize made by US company Monsanto on its territory, Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Fiji says open for tourists despite floods Flood-ravaged Fiji insisted it was "business as usual" for the South Pacific nation's vital tourism industry Wednesday, as officials confirmed the death toll from recent downpours had risen to five. ... more | .. |
  Evolving to Fight Epidemics: Weakness Can Be an Advantage When battling a deadly parasite epidemic, less resistance can sometimes be better than more, a new study suggests. A freshwater zooplankton species known as Daphnia dentifera endures periodic epidem ... more |
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 New comparison of ocean temperatures reveals rise over the last century A new study contrasting ocean temperature readings of the 1870s with temperatures of the modern seas reveals an upward trend of global ocean warming spanning at least 100 years. The research l ... more | .. |
 UNH Research Brings New Understanding to Past Global Warming Events A series of global warming events called hyperthermals that occurred more than 50 million years ago had a similar origin to a much larger hyperthermal of the period, the Pelaeocene-Eocene Thermal Ma ... more | .. |
 Plants mimic scent of pollinating beetles The color and scent of flowers and their perception by pollinator insects are believed to have evolved in the course of mutual adaptation. However, an evolutionary biologist from the University of Z ... more | .. |
 Gray seals consume as much fish as the fishing industry catches The grey seals in the Baltic Sea compete for fish with the fishing industry. The seals locally eat about the same quantities of cod, common whitefish, salmon, sea trout and eel as those taken by fis ... more |
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