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EU to ban pesticides in bee scareThe European Commission will restrict the use of pesticides linked to bee deaths by researchers, despite a split among EU states on the issue. |
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Want to be happier? Stay in the momentWhen are humans most happy? To gather data on this question, Matt Killingsworth built an app, Track Your Happiness, that let people report their feelings in real time. Among the surprising results: We're often happiest when we're lost in the moment. |
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Another city in BC bans shark finsThe sale, possession and distribution of shark fin is officially banned in White Rock. |
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Lucas Giving Disney’s Billions To Fund EducationAs Star Wars fans digest the news that George Lucas' company Lucasfilm was sold to Disney for a little over $4 billion, it turns out that it wasn't for personal profit. |
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New opportunity for rapid treatment of malariaResearchers have identified a new means to eradicate malaria infections by rapidly killing the blood-borne Plasmodium parasites that cause the disease. |
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EU on track to exceed Kyoto emissions goalThe European Union is on track to not only meet but exceed greenhouse gas reduction goals set by the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, an analysis indicated this week. |
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Victory for Forests: Disney Stands Up for Endangered Forests and AnimalsToday, Disney adds its significant voice to the growing chorus of companies demonstrating that there's no need to sacrifice endangered forests in Indonesia or elsewhere for the paper we use every day. |
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new mammal menagerie uncovered in remote Peruvian cloud forestEvery year scientists describe around 18,000 new species, but mammals make up less than half a percent of those. Yet mammal surprises remain: deep in the remote Peruvian Andes, scientists have made an incredible discovery: a rich cloud forest and alpine grassland ecosystem that may be home to no less than eight new mammal species. |
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Fear can be erased from the brain before its memory has been formedAn old saying tells us not to dwell on an unpleasant event. A new clinical study suggests the saying has both psychological and neurological support for its validity. |
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Costa Rica’s Shark Finning Ban Signed By President ChinchillaCosta Rica passed a blanket ban on shark finning, in which the fins are sliced off sharks, often while they are alive, before the fish are thrown back into the ocean to die. |
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Enjoyment of life ‘key to living longer’Those who enjoy life the most are three times more likely to live a little longer than those who enjoy it the least, a study of ageing suggests. |
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Scientists uncover gene behind skin diseaseA team led by the University of Dundee believes it has made a significant step in understanding a skin disease which affects thousands in the UK. |
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Philippines and Muslim rebels sign key peace planThe Philippines has signed a framework peace plan with the country's largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). |
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New Water Treatment Process Could Help Bring Dead Zones Back to LifeEmploying a new tertiary wastewater treatment process reduced levels of phosphorous and trace pollutants in urban wastewater effluent below EPA safe levels, researchers from Veolia Water, Kruger and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee found. |
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SpaceX launches station cargoThe first commercially contracted re-supply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has lifted off. |
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Crowdsourcing the meaning of lifeHumanity has been searching for “The Meaning of Life” from the beginning of time, but if could be argued that today – with global terrorism, ecological disasters, civil unrest, and economic meltdowns, etc.- life is more perplexing than ever before. If we don’t find answers to the big questions now, there may soon be no life left to interpret. |
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Energy from Solar Power now Cheaper than Fossil Fuels in 105 CountriesSolar installations are rocketing worldwide as solar electricity becomes cheaper than electricity from fossil fuels – it’s already happened in 105 countries. |
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