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Pseudocheirus peregrinus - Ringtail Possum hunched on a utility pole
(photo: Creative Commons)
Tiny possum could be Australia's first climate change victim
Daily Press
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A one-degree rise in temperature could spell doom for a rare Australian possum within a decade, potentially making the tiny, long-tailed marsupial the continent's first victim of climate change, researchers said. | Mountain Pygmy Possums have been a part of the Australian ecosyste...
James Cameron
(photo: Creative Commons / Nehrams2020)
‘Titanic’ Director Donates Deep-Sea Craft to Institute
The New York Times
The Hollywood director James Cameron is donating the craft that he built and last year rode into the sea’s deepest spot to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, as part of a new collaboration meant to speed ocean exploration, the partners announced early Tuesday. | Enlarge This Image | Mar...
Iron curtains are coming down all around mobile and app ecosystems
The Guardian
Google, Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple - they're all nudging their users inside their own ecosystems and making it harder to stay outside. Why? For money | German masons slap mortar on as they build the Berlin Wall in December 1961. Is the same ...
Stilts: Inhabitat Monkeys Around in Sustainable Kenyan Treehouses
Inhabitat
  |   | Andy Barbour's grandfather first moved from the UK to Kenya in 1958, and he eventually bought a verdant piece of land in Diani - a beautiful coastal town that boasts enviable white sand beaches, a forest ecosystem found nowhere outs...
Cross platform iMessage-like app.
The Verge
Cross platform iMessage-like app. | Posted by pika2000 on March 26, 2013 12:49 am 0 | With so many SMS alternatives, you would think this is an easy answer, but I can't seem to find a real alternative to iMessage. | Let's recap a bit. iMessage is a s...
Scientists: No pups for Isle Royale wolves
Detroit news
By John Flesher Associated Press Comments | Traverse City — The gray wolves in Isle Royale National Park in northern Michigan are increasingly threatened, scientists said Monday, with no pups spotted in the past year and concern growing that th...
Tiny possum could be Australia's first climate change victim
Daily Press
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A one-degree rise in temperature could spell doom for a rare Australian possum within a decade, potentially making the tiny, long-tailed marsupial the continent's first victim of climate change, researchers said. | Mountain Pygmy P...
Tiny possum could be Australia's first climate change victim
Hartford Courant
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A one-degree rise in temperature could spell doom for a rare Australian possum within a decade, potentially making the tiny, long-tailed marsupial the continent's first victim of climate change, researchers said. | Mountain Pygmy P...
Community Calendar for the Midlands, March 26
The State
TODAY | SHEPHERD’S CENTER OF ST. ANDREWS: Spring session of Adventures in Learning, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 pm. Tuesdays through May 21 at Ashland UMC, 2600 Ashland Road. Interfaith learning program for age 50 and older. $15 (includes all classes), lunch...
‘Titanic’ Director Donates Deep-Sea Craft to Institute
The New York Times
The Hollywood director James Cameron is donating the craft that he built and last year rode into the sea’s deepest spot to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, as part of a new collaboration meant to speed ocean exploration, the partners a...
Apple maybe becoming irrelevant as a technology company
The Examiner
Apple has enjoyed superstar status when it comes to technology innovation over the last two decades. Without any doubt this is a well deserved distinction as Apple has been very instrumental in driving consumer technology more than any other company....
A big tree - nature - environment
WN / Aruna Mirasdar
Why We Must Put Nature Back to Work, Part 2
Huffington Post
In its new assessment of America's infrastructure, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) found that much of it is aging and substandard. Among the systems needing repairs ...
Almonds - rich in protein - healthy food
WN / Aruna Mirasdar
Top 10 vegetarian sources of protein
The Examiner
Vegetarians, vegans, and those just counting calories: rejoice! Meat is no longer necessary for adequate protein levels in a healthy diet. In fact, as reported in the New York Time...
Asian Carp Spawning Areas Are More Varied Than Previously Thought: Study
WN / Agnieszka D.
Asian Carp Spawning Areas Are More Varied Than Previously Thought: Study
Huffington Post
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- Asian carp are reproducing in more places and under more varied conditions than experts had believed they could, yet another reason to worry about the greed...
In this file photo of Thursday, May 6, 2010, traffic passes a building in lower Manhattan that once housed a Burlington Coat Factory store, in New York. A 13-story mosque and Islamic cultural center is planned to replace the building that was damaged by airplane debris on Sept. 11, 2001.
AP / Mark Lennihan, File
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council celebrates 40 years - full list revealed
m&c;
Many know LMCC by its flagship annual event the River To River Festival (info on that coming soon!), but River To River is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of programs and supp...
Aceh told to keep its forests intact
Jakarta Post
Paper Edition | Page: 2 | Environmental scientists and institutions are calling on the Aceh provincial administration to maintain the province’s biodiversity amid fears that an incoming spatial plan will further exploit its vast forests. | The scie...
Can Indian geneticists revive Asiatic cheetah?
The Times Of India
A few days back when scientists inched closer to reviving an Australian frog species that has been extinct for the last 30 years, they also revived the world's fascination for de-extinction -- a concept that has walked the thin line between science f...
Ecological research leads to call to control feral pigs
Scoop
Tuesday, 26 March 2013, 10:31 am | Press Release: University of Auckland | 26 March 2013 | Ecological research leads to call to control feral pigs | University of Auckland research revealing the extent to which feral pigs can disturb forest vegetatio...
Environment
James Cameron
(photo: Creative Commons / Nehrams2020)
‘Titanic’ Director Donates Deep-Sea Craft to Institute
The New York Times
The Hollywood director James Cameron is donating the craft that he built and last year rode into the sea’s deepest spot to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, as part of a new collaboration meant to speed ocean exploration, the partners announced early Tuesday. | Enlarge This Image | Mark Thiessen/National Geographic | The filmmaker Jam...
Weather
A man snowboarding in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, March 25, 2013. The temperature in the Ukrainian capital fell to about -3 Celsius (27 F) on Monday.
(photo: AP / Sergei Chuzavkov)
Ukrainian Capital Grapples With Snow, Scandal
The New York Times
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Residents of the Ukrainian capital suspect the city is trying to pull a fast one on them about its efforts to clean up from a paralyzing blizzard. | A photo that appeared on the Kiev administration's website Sunday after a snowfall of 20 inches (50 centimeters) shows three snowplows clearing a street. | The trouble is &md...;



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