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Michael Kozuch

The World's Disappearing Sand - 0 views

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    MOST Westerners facing criminal charges in Cambodia would be thanking their lucky stars at finding themselves safe in another country. But Alejandro Gonzalez-Davidson, who is half British and half Spanish, is pleading with the Phnom Penh government to allow him back to stand trial along with three Cambodian colleagues.
Michael Kozuch

Watch this straddle bus eat cars as it speeds down the highway - 2 views

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    Six years ago we showed the crazy Chinese 3D fast bus and everyone thought it was silly vaporware. Three years ago we showed an updated version, the Land Airbus which got to the animated video stage. Now it appears that it is at the model stage, zipping through the International High-tech Expo in Beijing the other day.
Michael Kozuch

What You Can Do About Climate Change - 0 views

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    Global climate: it's complicated. Any long-term solution will require profound changes in how we generate energy. At the same time, there are everyday things that you can do to reduce your personal contribution to a warming planet. Here are seven simple guidelines on how your choices today affect the climate tomorrow.
Michael Kozuch

End of China's One-Child Policy Stings Its 'Loneliest Generation' - 0 views

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    BEIJING - By many measures, Wang Hailei, 36, belongs to one of the most privileged generations in Chinese history. Raised without siblings under China 's "one child" policy, he was lavished with attention and pampered with gifts like computer games, martial arts novels and music lessons.
Michael Kozuch

Atmospheric greenhouse gas levels hit record, report says - The Boston Globe - 0 views

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    Global concentrations of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere surpassed 400 parts per million this past spring for the first time, breaching a symbolic barrier set by climate scientists and policy makers, according to a report released this week.
Michael Kozuch

Sorry, New Yorker, Thoreau is more relevant than ever - The Boston Globe - 1 views

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    Kathryn Schulz recently suggested that Henry David Thoreau and his most famous book, "Walden," are not worth their place as classics of American philosophy and writing. In her article in The New Yorker (" Pond Scum: Henry David Thoreau's Moral Myopia "), she made some well-worn, if sometimes misleading, points - namely that Thoreau was conceited, contradictory, hypocritical, and perhaps worst of all in Schulz's eyes, he did not like people or society.
Andrew Thompson

Urbanization - Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2011 - 2 views

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    Urbanization, People, Demographic trends, statistical yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2011, population, environment economy, connectivity, Asia-Pacific region
Andrew Thompson

World Bank data on countries - 1 views

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    Another reference point as you research your country!
Andrew Thompson

The World Factbook - 7 views

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    The World Factbook, produced for US policymakers and coordinated throughout the US Intelligence Community, marshals facts on every country, dependency, and geographic entity in the world. We share this information with the people of all nations in the belief that knowledge of the truth underpins the functioning of free societies.
Andrew Thompson

Knoema -- great research tool! - 7 views

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    Check this out -- awesome research tool!
Andrew Thompson

Orange County offers model for places without enough water - 0 views

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    FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - Orange County's natural water supplies come from just three sources: limited rain, a single unreliable river and aquifers. But those are nowhere near enough to support the lawn-and-pool lifestyle that helped the home of Disneyland grow from 700,000 residents in 1960 to about 3.1 million today.
Andrew Thompson

'Underground railroad' assists Iraqi refugees in San Diego - 0 views

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    SAN DIEGO (AP) - A Southern California nonprofit is running an "underground railroad" to assist Chaldean Catholics fleeing the turmoil in Iraq. Thirty-two year old Mark Arabo tells The San Diego Union-Tribune (http://bit.ly/1hRZj99 ) that he founded the Minority Humanitarian Foundation out of impatience with Washington's inability to deal with the crisis created by Islamic State militants.
Andrew Thompson

As seas rise, saltwater plants offer hope farms will survive - 0 views

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    VEDARANYAM, India (AP) - On a sun-scorched wasteland near India's southern tip, an unlikely garden filled with spiky shrubs and spindly greens is growing, seemingly against all odds. The plants are living on saltwater, coping with drought and possibly offering viable farming alternatives for a future in which rising seas have inundated countless coastal farmlands.
Andrew Thompson

How California Is Winning the Drought - 0 views

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    FOR California, there hasn't ever been a summer quite like the summer of 2015. The state and its 39 million residents are about to enter the fifth year of a drought. It has been the driest four-year period in California history - and the hottest, too.
Andrew Thompson

Lobster population is shifting north; ocean warming blamed - 0 views

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    PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The lobster population has crashed to the lowest levels on record in southern New England while climbing to heights never before seen in the cold waters off Maine and other northern reaches - a geographic shift that scientists attribute in large part to the warming of the ocean.
Andrew Thompson

National challenge of leaking mines dwarfs Colorado spill - 0 views

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    SILVERTON, Colorado (AP) - It will take many years and many millions of dollars simply to manage and not even remove the toxic wastewater from an abandoned mine that unleashed a 100-mile-long torrent of heavy metals into Western rivers and has likely reached Lake Powell, experts said Thursday.
Andrew Thompson

There's no cod from Cape Cod in local markets - 0 views

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    Step out of the hot, sunny day into the cool, fresh-smelling interior of Mac's Seafood in Eastham and you'll find a showcase full of glistening fish and shellfish nestled in a thick bed of ice chips.
Andrew Thompson

25 years later, Seabrook remains pivotal in nuclear debate - 0 views

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    The Seabrook Station nuclear power plant was conceived during the turbulent 1970s and was under construction when accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl stoked fears of a global nuclear calamity.
Andrew Thompson

The Red Area Of This Map Represents Where 5% Of The World\'s Entire Population Lives - 0 views

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    The image above shows where 10% of the world's population inhabit; 5% are in the blue area, 5% are in the red area and the remaining 90% are in the white area. There are high concentrations in the Northern Hemisphere, while in the Southern Hemisphere, the entire middle of South America and Australia are completely covered in blue.
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