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"It would cause a mass extinction of almost all life and probably reduce humanity to a few struggling groups of embattled survivors clinging to life near the poles." Fast-rising carbon emissions mean that worst-case predictions for climate change are coming trueThe world is now firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global temperatures rising by up

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A picture shows the drying shores of the Dead Sea, south of the Jordanian capital Amman, on November 9. The Dead Sea may soon shrink to a lifeless pond as Middle East political strife blocks vital measures needed to halt the decay of the world's lowest and saltiest body of water, experts say.GHOR HADITHA, Jordan (AFP) – The Dead Sea may soon shrink to a lifeless pond as Middle East political

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WASHINGTON (AFP) – Humanity would need five Earths to produce the resources needed if everyone lived as profligately as Americans, according to a report issued Tuesday. As it is, humanity each year uses resources equivalent to nearly one-and-a-half Earths to meet its needs, said the report by Global Footprint Network, an international think tank. "We are

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Each cross marks an earthquake recorded in the New Madrid seismic zone since 1974The small earthquakes that sporadically rattle the central United States may actually be aftershocks from a few extremely large quakes that occurred in the region almost 200 years ago, according to a new study The New Madrid Earthquakes, which struck between December 1811 and February 1812, are

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Abandonded dwellings stand surrounded by flood waters amid continuing rains in 2008 near Gonaives, HaitiWASHINGTON — As world leaders gather for key climate talks here, small island nations Monday warned they were running out of time with rising seas threatening to wipe them off the map.Spread across the Earth's oceans, the planet's tiniest members grouped as part of the Alliance of Small Islands

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Algae is seen along the Murray River at AlburyCOBRAM, Australia — Farmer Mazzareno Bisogni fights back tears as he stands among the remains of trees he planted 35 years ago, victims of a drought hitting "Australia's Mississippi".Bisogni's orchard lies in the heart of the once-mighty Murray-Darling river system which irrigates Australia's food bowl, the vast southeastern corner responsible for 40

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This is one of the latest pictures returned from the remarkable human achievement that is the Cassini spacecraft, a probe the size of a school bus that has been orbiting the ringed planet since 2004. It’s returned one incredible picture after another, and lately — as Saturn’s orbit has brought it to a point where the rings are nearly edge-on to the Sun — things have gotten not only spectacular

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Musk oxen clash horns in a battle for dominance on Alaska's Seward Peninsula. Researchers suspect that herds of reindeer, musk oxen and other Arctic animals may face starvation as a warming climate affects their ability to access food. Laurent Dick/APWhen wildlife biologists visited a remote spot in Canada called Banks Island in the spring of 2004, they discovered thousands upon thousands of dead

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Darkness falls in Asia during total eclipse, luring masses(CNN) -- The longest solar eclipse of the century cast a wide shadow for several minutes over Asia and the Pacific Ocean Wednesday, luring throngs of people outside to watch the celestial spectacle. Event is longest of 21st century, astronomers predict it would last over 6 minutes People in parts of Pacific Ocean, China and India able to

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The European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory Will Search for the Answers to Star Formation, Water Creation and MoreAtop the Ariane 5 rocket in Kourou, French Guiana, Herschel waits for its May launch. Named after the British astronomer William Herschel, who discover the infrared spectrum and Uranus, the observatory is the largest space telescope ever launched. Photo courtesy of the ESA

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NASA images show scar in planet's atmosphere near south poleThis image, captured by NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility on Hawaii, shows a large impact on Jupiter's south polar region on Monday. The impact zone is the bright spot at lower left. View related photosPASADENA, Calif. - Astronomers say Jupiter has apparently been struck by an object, possibly a comet.Images taken early Monday by

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Story HERE Mysterious, glowing clouds previously seen almost exclusively in Earth’s polar regions have appeared in the skies over the United States and Europe over the past several days.Photographers and other sky watchers in Omaha, Paris, Seattle, and other locations have run outside to capture images of what scientists call noctilucent (”night shining”) clouds. Formed by ice literally at the

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Photo of noctilucent clouds by Robert and Jennifer More in Seattle, taken early the morning of July 15, 2009.By Scott Sistek

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Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise pictured in cracked and drifting ice in front of the Petermann Glacier (out of view) on Greenland's north-west coast. Photo: Nick Cobbing/GreenpeaceAn ice island weighing many millions of tonnes is poised to break off the northern hemisphere's largest glacier, say independent scientists travelling aboard a Greenpeace ship. Altogether, 5 billion tonnes of

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UNITED NATIONS -- The global crisis for endangered species is more serious than the financial meltdown, with numbers of imperiled animals and plants rising at record rates, scientists are warning in a report released today.In its latest four-year assessment of endangered species, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has added several new entries to the Red List of Threatened

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This photo, released by the Alaska Volcano Observatory/U.S. Geological Survey, shows the top vent in the Redoubt summit crater near Kenai, Alaska, March 21, 2009. The volcano erupted three times starting Sunday night, sending an ash cloud an estimated 50,000 feet into the air. The ash cloud is expected to reach the Susitna Valley, including Talkeetna and Willow about 90 miles north of Anchorage.

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A queen and worker Argentine ant have many, many relativesA single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered.Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another. The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in

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Earth faces a bleak future as a "waterworld" much like the one depicted in a Hollywood blockbuster starring Kevin Costner, scientists have warned. Sea-level rise is now inevitable and will happen much quicker than most of us thought - and will last for centuries, according to experts.Even if greenhouse gas emissions stopped tomorrow the oceans will continue to swell as they warm and as glaciers

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New research, which reconstructs the extent of ice in the sea between Greenland and Svalbard from the 13th century to the present indicates that there has never been so little sea ice as there is now. The research results from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, are published in the scientific journal, Climate Dynamics.There are of course neither satellite images nor instrumental records of

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Our planet’s tilt dictates cycle of summer and winterEarth's tilt affects seasons. In this graphic, distances and sizes are not to scale.The seasons are a powerful force in our lives. They affect the activities we do, the foods we crave, the clothes we wear — and quite often, the moods we are in. The seasons officially change once again Sunday, with summer beginning in the Northern Hemisphere and

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Commodity analyst says crop failure would shockA commodities expert has launched a warning that the next major crop failure around the world could be a bigger shock than $150 oil and result in "mass starvation."The forecast comes from Chicago-based Don Coxe, a leading agricultural industry expert, in a report in the Commodity Online publication."When we have the first serious crop failure, which

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ALERT: Health workers on standby for disasterMillions of people living and holidaying along the Mediterranean coast are at risk of being hit with a tsunami, a new report warns.The World Disasters Report, by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said there is no tsunami early-warning alert system for the region, even though it is considered to be more vulnerable

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Three years ago, a few hundred bats were found dead in hibernating caves in the northeastern state of New York. The event barely registered for some scientists. By the following winter, the death toll had risen to a few thousand bats, sparking concern among some experts. This year, the death toll could near a million, and has set off an alarm among scientists and farmers. The dramatic reduction

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Oregon State scientist Mary Verhoeven is among those working to develop wheat varieties resistant to a strain of “stem rust” that a colleague calls “a time bombThe Ug99 fungus, called stem rust, could wipe out more than 80% of the world's wheat as it spreads from Africa, scientists fear. The race is on to breed resistant plants before it reaches the U.S.

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A cloud of ash 40 km. by 20 km. (25 x 12.5 miles) has issued from the crater of the Shiveluch volcano on the isolated Russian Kamchatka Peninsula along the Bering Sea, and the column of ash pouring from the volcano reaches 7.7 km. (4.8 miles) above sea level today, Gazeta.ru reports. The volcano is one of the most active and the northernmost of about 30 live volcanoes on the peninsula.

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