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How shellfish saved the human race Boing BoingA couple hundred thousand years ago, the planet became a much colder and drier place. In Africa, deserts expanded, species were wiped out and the human race was in deep trouble. See, humans today may look pretty different from one another but, genetically speaking, there's not much diversity at ...
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Study shows loss of 15-42 percent of mammals in North AmericaIf the planet is headed for another mass extinction like the previous five, each of which wiped out more than 75 percent of all species on the planet, then North American mammals are one-fifth to one-half the way there, according to a University of California, Berkeley, and Pennsylvania State ...
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Mediterranean Sea Saved by Monumental Flood | Wired Science | Wired.comA cataclysmic flood could have filled the Mediterranean Sea — which millions of years ago was a dry basin — like a bathtub in the space of less than two years. A new model suggests that at the flood’s peak water poured from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean basin at a rate one thousand times ...
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UN: 2000-2009 likely warmest decade on record - Yahoo! Newshis decade is on track to become the warmest since records began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top-five warmest years, the U.N. weather agency reported Tuesday on the second day of a pivotal 192-nation climate conference. Only the United States and Canada experienced cooler conditions ...
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Scientists: New dinosaur species found in SAfrica - Yahoo! NewsA newly discovered dinosaur species that roamed the Earth about 200 million years ago may help explain how the creatures evolved into the largest animals on land, scientists in South Africa said Wednesday. The Aardonyx celestae was a small-headed herbivore with huge barrel of a chest, and the ...
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Farmed Out: How Will Climate Change Impact World Food Supplies?: Scientific AmericanThe people of East Africa once again face a devastating drought this year: Crops wither and fail from Kenya to Ethiopia, livestock drop dead and famine spreads. Although, historically, such droughts are not uncommon in this region, their frequency seems to have increased in recent years, raising ...
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Asteroid attack: Putting Earth's defences to the test - space - 23 September 2009 - New ScientistContinue reading page | 1 | 2 | 3 IT LOOKS inconsequential enough, the faint little spot moving leisurely across the sky. The mountain-top telescope that just detected it is taking it very seriously, though. It is an asteroid, one never seen before. Rapid-survey telescopes discover ...
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Humans spread out of Africa later | PhysorgModern humans spread out of Africa 20,000 years later than previously thought, according to new genetic research just published. Scientists, including the Natural History Museum’s human origins expert Professor Chris Stringer, re-examined how scientists get dates for key events in human ...
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Earliest Known Bacterial Infection Found : Discovery NewsThe bones of an ancient hominin may hold evidence of the earliest known bacterial infection, according to a team of international researchers who diagnosed the skeleton with a disease called brucellosis. The discovery of the infection may provide insight into the eating habits of these early ...
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How to cure diseases before they have even evolved - health - 10 August 2009 - New ScientistWILL swine flu virus turn nasty as the northern hemisphere winter gets under way? All previous pandemic flu strains started off mild before becoming deadlier, so health authorities are taking the threat seriously. They know that if 2009 H1N1 flu does become more lethal over the next few months, ...
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