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Vast expanses of Arctic ice melt in summer heat - Yahoo! News »
Posted by: mpchekuri 2 months, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The Arctic Ocean has given up tens of thousands more square miles (square kilometers) of ice on Sunday in a relentless summer of melt, with ...
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Obama keeps heat on insurance firms »
Posted by: Tumultuous 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
BIG SKY, Montana (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Saturday U.S. healthcare worked better for insurance companies than for patients, as he pressed his ...
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Heat Waves Getting Worse »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Heat waves out West are getting worse as the climate changes, a new study finds.
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One example: From mid July to early August 2006, a ...Read (123) | Share | Discuss (2) | Read Full Story at livescience.com
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GM gets $2.6M grant to convert engine heat »
Posted by: STONERS 1 week, 6 days ago in News
General Motors Co. today received a $2.6 million federal grant to develop technology that will let the automaker convert waste heat from car engines ...
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Glow of 'hot Jupiters' spotted from Earth for first time »
Posted by: myfairlady 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The glow of 'hot Jupiter' planets has been detected with ground-based telescopes for the first time.
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The detections are just a first step, astronomers say ...Read (391) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at newscientist.com
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'Whitewash' could slow Global Warming: Peruvian Scientist »
Posted by: WikiMap 4 days, 19 hours ago in Science & Technology
A Peruvian scientist has called on his country to help slow the melting of Andean glaciers by daubing white paint on the rock and earth ...
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Efficiency stimulus will lower energy bills, says federal report »
Posted by: altnrg 6 months, 1 week ago in Political News
Depending on your position, the federal stimulus money is either a jobs builder or a national budget buster. The Energy Information Administration offers another take ...
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Israel extends racist apartheid to Bedouin citizens of Israel »
Posted by: hyperbola 2 months, 1 week ago in Religion
The inhabitants of the Bedouin village of Amra have good reason to fear that the harsh tactics used by the Israeli army against Palestinians in ...
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Heat deaths put pressure on football tradition »
Posted by: engineer 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Sports
"Two-a-day" practices come under scrutiny as players die from heatstroke
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Since 1995, 39 football players have died in heat-related deaths
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Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade helps family displaced by fire »
Posted by: MyWayOnNow 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Sports
When Dwyane Wade heard the plight of a South Florida woman whose nephew accidentally burned down her home—and ruined all the family’s possessions ...
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BBC NEWS | Science&Environment | Honeybee mobs overpower hornets »
Posted by: gbudavid 4 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Bees smother hornets in a "bee ball" that kills the giant predators with heat and carbon dioxide.
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Red Hot Chillis to Be Used in Hand Grenades in India »
Posted by: ZagatBuzz 4 months, 1 week ago in News
India's security forces are planning to mix one of the world's hottest chilli powders in hand grenades to control riots and during insurgency ...
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Newt Gingrich Takes Heat From the Right, but Will It Stick? -- Politics Daily »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 1 week, 5 days ago in Political News
A few days ago, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich irritated many movement conservatives when he endorsed liberal Republican Dede Scozzafava over Cons
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Questions and answers about the US climate bill »
Posted by: Progressive 4 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Cap-and-trade? Offsets? Pollution credits? The climate bill passed Friday by the House tackles global warming with new limits on pollution and a market-based approach to ...
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Last year ranked in top 10 for heat »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Last year was the eighth warmest year on record, according to the National Climatic Data Center. The world's temperature in 2008 tied that of ...
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