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. Desdemona Despair 23 November 2015 (NBC News) – Serbia and Macedonia,
which lie on the main migrant route to northern Europe, have begun restricting
the entry of refugees to just those from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. [more]
Europe Clamps Down on Borders, Leaving Migrants Stranded Technorati Tags:
Europe,climate refugees,conflict...
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. Desdemona Despair By Emma Howard23 November 2015 (The Guardian) – More
than 2,000 academics from over 80 countries – including linguist Noam Chomsky,
climate scientist Michael E Mann, philosopher Peter Singer, and historian Naomi
Oreskes – have called on world leaders to do more to limit global warming to
a...
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CONTRIBUTOR: . In September I wrote
a piece called For The Last Time, No, The Syrian Crisis Was Not Caused By
Climate Change. Clearly, though, my approach wasn’t subtle enough because a
month later I had to write another piece called No, Charlotte Church. The Syrian
Civil War Was Not Caused By...
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CONTRIBUTOR: . Why is Einstein's
general relativity such a popular target for cranks?Michael J. I. Brown, Monash
University Scientists maybe celebrating the 100th anniversary of Albert
Einstein’s general theory of relativity, but there was also a death in 1915. It
was one of the many deaths of simple and intuitive physics that...
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CONTRIBUTOR: . A light micrograph
of a tardigrade. Credit: Sinclair StammersResearchers from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill have sequenced the genome of the nearly
indestructible tardigrade, the only animal known to survive the extreme
environment of outer space, and found something they never expected: that they
get a huge...
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CONTRIBUTOR: . Recent news that
2015 will likely be the warmest on record gave global warming alarmists another
log of anxiety to throw on the bonfire of fear they've set, and probably moved
more than a few climate agnostics who haven't been paying attention toward the
gang's position. But really, there's nothing...
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. First published on ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for
American Progress Action Fund, which was recently named one of Time magazine's
Top 25 blogs of 2010. Canada's largest oil-producing province just unveiled a
new climate policy, which includes annual limits on carbon pollution and a
carbon tax. The post...
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CONTRIBUTOR: . Use of the Herbicide
Glyphosate Has Skyrocketed Since the 1990sSource: ThinkStockPhotos.comFor
thousands of years, children ate the same food their parents ate when they were
children. In the United States today, this is no longer the case. Most
dramatically, the proliferation of the use of the herbicide glyphosate, made
possible...
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. 24th November 2015 By Carolanne Wright Contributing Writer for Wake Up
World Nine people are dead, with an additional 19 unaccounted, following two
iron ore mining dams bursting in Brazil’s Minas Gerais region. The town of Bento
Rodrigues was completely destroyed by the 60 million cubic meters of toxic
mud...
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CONTRIBUTOR:
. Viruses are tricky, but we humans may be trickier still. Stanford stem
cell biologists Vittorio Sebastiano, PhD, and Jens Durruthy-Durruthy, PhD,
published a study today in Nature Genetics indicating that the genetic remnants
of ancient viral infections that still linger in our genome are essential to
early human embryonic development.As...
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