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Al Gore talks about global warming, those e-mails, and his new book. - By John Dickerson - Slate MagazineThe role of campaign contributions in our political system and the role of lobbyists have now reached levels that are quite unhealthy for the operations of our democracy. But the antidote, as in past eras of lobbyist excess, is for more involvement by citizens to build pressure on members of the ...
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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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200911242698 | Supervolcano Eruption In Sumatra Deforested India 73,000 Years AgoThis page is viewed 28 times Science Daily A new study provides "incontrovertible evidence" that the volcanic super eruption of Toba on the island of Sumatra about 73,000 years ago deforested much of central India, some 3,000 miles from the epicenter, researchers report. The volcano ...
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IEEE Spectrum: Biofuels Aren't Really GreenBoth the biofuel and solar scenarios are carbon neutral by definition—solar for obvious reasons, biomass because carbon emitted in combustion is reabsorbed when plants regrow. (Admittedly, biofuels are carbon neutral only if crops are planted in existing tilled fields and the emissions connected ...
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India prof tips fastest prime number detection algorithmAgrawal told EE Times India that his deterministic polynomial time algorithm detects prime numbers. "It is faster than other existing solutions and is foolproof." With this he solves a nearly 200-year old problem which has been vexing the mathematics community. "It is a great honour for me to ...
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Knowledge and Future: World Science Forum in Budapest - | unesco.orgKnowledge and Future: World Science Forum in Budapest Paris, 29 October Ten years after the first World Conference on Science (Budapest, 1999), the fourth World Science Forum will take place in Budapest (Hungary) from 5 to 7 November. The meeting, whose theme this year is “Knowledge and ...
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DNA Points To India's Two-pronged Ancestry / Science NewsGenetic Spread View Larger Version | Despite India’s genetic diversity (seen on a map showing the states inhabited by each of 25 groups), a new DNA study traces today’s lineages back to just two ancestral groups. Colors denote the language families of tongues spoken by each group (see legend ...
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Rediscovering The Dragon's Paradise Lost: Komodo Dragons Most Likely Evolved In Australia, Dispersed To IndonesiaRediscovering The Dragon's Paradise Lost: Komodo Dragons Most Likely Evolved In Australia, Dispersed To Indonesia ScienceDaily (Oct. 1, 2009) — The world's largest living lizard species, the Komodo dragon ( Varanus komodoensis ), is vulnerable to extinction and yet little is known about its ...
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San Andreas Affected By 2004 Sumatran Quake; Largest Quakes Can Weaken Fault Zones WorldwideU.S. seismologists have found evidence that the massive 2004 earthquake that triggered killer tsunamis throughout the Indian Ocean weakened at least a portion of California's famed San Andreas Fault. The results, which appear this week in the journal Nature, suggest that the Earth's largest ...
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Reconstructing Indian population history : Article : Nature - Random Collection from WebIndia has been underrepresented in genome-wide surveys of human variation. We analyse 25 diverse groups in India to provide strong evidence for two ancient populations, genetically divergent, that are ancestral to most Indians today. One, the 'Ancestral North Indians' (ANI), is genetically close ...
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