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The girl who silenced the world for five minutes

Saturday, January 23, 2010

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Here you have one of perhaps the most impressive speeches of all time, delivered by a 12 year old in from of a UN meeting or something. Her name is Severn Suzuki-Cullis. [After 5 minutes] In case you’re wondering what she’s up to nowadays, she graduated from Yale in 2002, and now she’s an environmental activist, and [...]

Puffins in trouble

Sunday, January 10, 2010

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Where do birds go in the winter? That’s a question many of us asked, as kids. Well puffins are currently suffering from an increase in winter mortality, which is probably caused by the worsening of conditions in the North Sea. Using geolocation technology, this study tracked puffins and found that the population decreased by 30% [...]

The fight for survival - a single bear vs a colony

Saturday, December 26, 2009

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As we enjoy our peace and quiet (or at least we should be), we shouldn’t forget that how the society we’ve built leads to an ever fiercer fight for survival. Here’s a movie that really touched me, with an ending you don’t (thankfully) see every day.

Taking a look at the ‘mini ice age’ of 1810

Monday, December 14, 2009

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Global warming is the main concern on everybody’s lips, causing more and more damage to the environment every year, sometimes in ways that seem hard to believe; everyday there seems to be a new report about something that went, is going, or will be going terribly wrong. However, in the early 1800s, the situation was [...]

Fishing boat sunk by giant jellyfish

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

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A while ago I was telling you about how big and how dangerous jellyfish can be; it’s all about size this time, as a fishing boat capsized, throwing it’s three members overboard after failing to haul up a net that was too heavy, loaded with giant Nomura jellyfish. Each of these aquatic giants can grow up [...]

Fighting against soot - more important than ever

Saturday, October 10, 2009

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Most of the talk about global warming revolves around carbon dioxide, sometimes giving the false impression that it alone is responsible for global warming and all its implications. However, numerous studies have revealed a new enemy, one almost as dangerous as carbon dioxide: soot. The black powdery pollutant is responsible for numerous climatic shifts, especially in [...]

Huge dust storm chokes Sydney [w/ pics]

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

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A significant part of Australia’s east coast, including country’s biggest city, Sydney, has been engulfed by a shroud of red dust blown mostly from the desert outback. Visibility was so bad that most if not all flights were delayed, and of course, there were the usual folks who started screaming that this is the apocalypse. Numerous [...]

Giant files: Nomura and Lion’s mane jellyfish

Saturday, August 1, 2009

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The Nomura Jellyfish Nomura Jellyfish are a large species of Japanese jellyfish, that seems to be giving them some big headaches. They can grow up to 2 meters in diameter and usually weigh over 200 kilograms, going up to 220 in numerous cases and they spawn in the seas between China and Japan, invading the Japanese [...]

How global warming made Scotland’s sheep shrink

Friday, July 3, 2009

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Each of us can easily feel the effects of golbal warming especially now when we practically melt in our homes. However, it seems that there are some more… peculiar effects. Scientists have discovered that a wild species of sheep from the island of St. Kilda has begun to reduce their size as a result of [...]

Fossil magnetism proves mass extinction theory

Monday, May 4, 2009

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The mass extinction theory is… a theory, because there are still some blanks left in to fill by scientists; of course, there are those who try to fight it and find other theories and those that try to back it up and fill in the missing pieces of the puzzle. Now, the latter camp recorded [...]

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