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The saddest Web site on Earth
2013-07-22 21:17:37| CNET News.com
A new single-service Web site lets you know approximately how many more times you'll get to see your parents before they die. Seriously. [Read more]
Massive solar eruption to shoot past Earth
2013-07-17 19:03:14| CNET News.com
An enormous coronal mass ejection has sent particles into space that are due to pass the Earth in the next three days. [Read more]
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Earth losing 300bn tonnes of ice every year
2013-07-16 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: A satellite has detected that 300 billion tonnes of ice is being lost every year from the Antarctic and Greenland glaciers, dramatically increasing sea levels around the world. The satellite that detected the melting is Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE). British scientists have been using it since 2002 to detect tiny variations in Earth's gravity field resulting from changes in mass distribution, including movement of ice into the oceans. Using these changes in gravity, the state...
'Anthropocene' period would recognize humanity's impact on Earth
2013-07-15 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: The Anthropocene is the name of a proposed new geological time period (probably an epoch) that may soon enter the official Geologic Time Scale. The Anthropocene is defined by the human influence on Earth, where we have become a geological force shaping the global landscape and evolution of our planet. According to this idea, the present epoch still known as the Holocene, which started 11,000 years ago would have ended somewhere between the end of 18th century and the 1950s (when the Anthropocene...
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Rare Earth Stocks Gain on Chinese Mine Closures
2013-07-15 16:07:39| Semiconductors - Topix.net
Rare earth stocks showed signs of life last week as officials in China continue to confiscate concentrate produced from illegal mines.
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