Topic: NATURE - on January 27, 2007 at 11:36:00 AM CET
Huge python makes a meal of 11 guard dogs
Guard dogs protecting a fruit orchard in Malaysia have met their match -- a 7.1-metre-long (23-ft-long) python that swallowed at least 11 hounds before it was finally discovered by villagers.
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Topic: NATURE - on January 26, 2007 at 11:54:00 AM CET
Cool The Globe
I'm what you might call a born again greenie.
And even then, it depends on your definition of greenie. I'm not an activist - well, not in the traditional sense. I'm certainly not radical. You'd have problems spotting me in a crowd. I'm the one who blurs into the background.
So what am I doing running this website?
As time goes on, we've been forced to accept the environment is a mainstream issue. Global warming is fact. We're seeing the consequences everyday.
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Topic: NATURE - on January 19, 2007 at 1:02:00 PM CET
It's a two-faced, four-eyed pig
The two-faced porker weighs in at 1.5 kilograms, comes with 2 mouths and 4 eyes, and was born in the small village of Quanzhou in East China's Fujian province on January 15.
The pig is widely seen as a symbol of fertility in China. And, what with 2007 being the Chinese Year Of The Pig, the unique porker is considered to be a blessing. Although, of course, it won't actually be the year of the pig until February 18.
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Topic: NATURE - on January 19, 2007 at 11:47:00 AM CET
Antarctic Icebergs
Australian Antarctic Division - Icebergs
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Topic: NATURE - on January 18, 2007 at 11:12:00 AM CET
The Lonely Tree of Ténéré
Because trees are so abundant, it is rare for a single one to become well-known. Some trees become distinguished due to their historical significance. The Bodhi Tree in India, for example, is where Buddha is thought to have gained enlightenment; and the Liberty Tree in 18th-century Boston was a gathering place for American colonists who objected to British rule.
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Topic: NATURE - on January 18, 2007 at 11:03:00 AM CET
Hawking warns: We must recognise the catastrophic dangers of climate change
Climate change stands alongside the use of nuclear weapons as one of the greatest threats posed to the future of the world, the Cambridge cosmologist Stephen Hawking has said.
Professor Hawking said that we stand on the precipice of a second nuclear age and a period of exceptional climate change, both of which could destroy the planet as we know it.
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Topic: NATURE - on January 18, 2007 at 11:00:00 AM CET
Spiders prefer malaria-infested mosquitoes
A jumping spider in East Africa is known to crave mosquitoes engorged with blood. Now scientists find the spider prefers a particular type of them—mosquitoes infested with the deadly malaria parasite.
These predatory spiders could help control the lethal disease, scientists say. Malaria leads to more than one million deaths per year worldwide, mostly children.
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Topic: NATURE - on January 18, 2007 at 10:51:00 AM CET
Top 100 Cryptic Mammals
The Zoological Society of London has created an amazing list of the world’s top 100 rarest and thus most endangered mammalian species.
“We are focusing on EDGE species – that means they are Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered,” announced the Zoological Society of London ’s Jonathan Baillie. “These are one-of-a-kind species. If they are lost there is nothing similar to them left on the planet. It would be a bit like the art world losing the Mona Lisa – they are simply irreplaceable.”
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Topic: NATURE - on January 17, 2007 at 11:15:00 AM CET
New World Record Common Carp at 38.15kg
The world record common Carp was hooked and landed on December the 17th 2006 by Dieter Markus Stein, fishing a German water.
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Topic: NATURE - on January 17, 2007 at 11:12:00 AM CET
Skunk seeks ride home: only brave need apply
Canadian wildlife officials are looking for a brave driver prepared for a 2,200 mile trip to take a stinky stowaway skunk back to her home in California.
But the skunk, who survived a seven-day journey across the United States and into Canada without food and water, after being accidentally locked away in a transport truck, is having a hard time finding someone to give her a ride home.
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Topic: NATURE - on January 15, 2007 at 12:52:00 PM CET
Big Melt Threatens India’s Water
The massive glaciers of the Himalayas, which hold one of Earth’s largest reserves of snow and ice, have dwindled by one-fifth in the past 4 decades. A team of Indian geologists and remote sensing experts published the alarming news this week–a grim warning that if the trend continues, it could jeopardize the fresh water supply of more than 500 million people in India.
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Topic: NATURE - on January 11, 2007 at 1:43:00 PM CET
Dead birds fall from the skies in Australia and America
THOUSANDS of birds have fallen from the skies over Esperance and no one knows why. Is it an illness, toxins or a natural phenomenon? A string of autopsies in Perth have shed no light on the mystery.
All the residents of flood-devastated Esperance know is that their "dawn chorus" of singing birds is missing.
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