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Britain: Producing food to waste it
Are you an indulgent consumer and make impulse purchases of food that you are unlikely to eat? If so, then you are shamelessly wasting food that a hungry person could have eaten. According to a recent government watchdog, Britain's food waste.
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17,000-year old cave painting reveals prehistoric trade of scarce mineral
Prehistoric peoples of the French Pyrenees may be trading scarce manganese oxide mineral. This is evidence from the bull's muzzle of a cave painting, with 17,000-year old mineral composition. The ancient painting is the -- Great Bull of Lascaux. It is a..
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Early humans experienced 'prolonged childhood': 160,000-year-old child reveals
Modern humans have been separated from the first Homo sapiens and older human species -- Homo erectus by a long childhood. But, a study on a 160,000-year-old early Homo sapiens child might eventually change the age-old thought on -- when and where modern.
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G8 ministers meet in Germany to help curb greenhouse gas emission
Environment ministers from the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations are currently now in Germany with two major issues in their agenda - * how to reduce emission of greenhouse gas, * how to replace the Kyoto Protocol. The key developing...
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US, Australian scientists moot global water network
Increasing water pollution has prompted the scientists in the United States and Australia to moot a plan for a worldwide network to monitor water quality. The US Government seems equally concerned with the issue and according to reports; a $300...
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Biologists out to find bear population in Pennsylvania
Bear biologist Mark Ternent is busy these days with his daredevil act of entering the dens to assess the health and size of Pennsylvania's bruin population. Ternent, must complete 30 dens by the end of this month to figure out the optimal ratio of...
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Is global warming a myth, a mere political issue?
At a time when environmentalists are working extra time to find out the ways and means of curbing global warming, a Danish scientist played down the fears and said it's more a political issue than scientific. University of Copenhagen Professor Bjarne..
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US government report: This winter was the warmest worldwide
Environmentalists have another reason to worry about changing climates after a US government report said this winter was the warmest on record worldwide. This report comes barely a month after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that..
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Ancient furry, mammal sheds light on modern mammalian ear-structure's evolution
The 125 million year-old fossil remains in the Yan Mountains in what is now the Hebei Province in China have revealed a squirrel-like mammal - a new svelte. This svelte used to snag insects and worms scurrying around in the wee hours of the night....
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Has this Borneo's new-found leopard species diverge from its cousin 1.4 million years ago?
A bizarre type of animal that has been spotted on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo was, till date, believed to be a cousin of a leopard. But, on Thursday, the WWF has confirmed it to be a completely new cat species. American scientists have...
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