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Kansas City Shooting Is Hate of an Ancient Vintage
2014-04-14 06:04:10| IT Services - Topix.net
At a press conference four hours after three people were killed in shootings at two Jewish facilities near Kansas City, Mo., authorities cautiously noted that they did not yet know the motive.
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Ancient Indonesian Climate Shift Linked To Glacial Cycle
2014-03-25 21:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Using sediments from a remote lake, researchers from Brown University have assembled a 60,000-year record of rainfall in central Indonesia. The analysis reveals important new details about the climate history of a region that wields a substantial influence on the global climate as a whole. The Indonesian archipelago sits in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool, an expanse of ocean that supplies a sizable fraction of the water vapor in Earth`s atmosphere and plays a role in propagating El Nio cycles. Despite...
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United Kingdom: Ancient forests exposed by storms along the coast of Wales
2014-02-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The recent storms that battered the UK have offered a glimpse into the past of the Welsh coastline, by washing away peat and revealing the stunning remains of ancient forests. Gnarled tree stumps and roots, believed to be dating from the Bronze Age, have become visible for the first time on the shore near the village of Borth, Ceredigion, Mid Wales. Now, remains of oak and pine trees preserved by peat protrude on the beach near Ynyslas - the most northern section of coast to be revealed in...
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What the West's Ancient Droughts Say About Its Future
2014-02-14 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: A millennium agojust yesterday, in geologic timeNative Americans waited all winter for rains that never came. They waited the next winter and the next. Then the marshes of their sacred San Francisco Bay turned from cattails to salt grass. Fishing declined and the Native Americans could no longer rely on the bounty of the bay. Finally, they left, hungry and thirsty, in search of water. Now, as modern Californians hope for fierce storms to break a dangerous dry spell, the questions arise: Is the...
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Breathing new life into an ancient Japanese art of shibori
2014-02-09 03:29:33| Apparel - Topix.net
From tablecloths to duvet covers, iPhone cases to wallpaper and startling calf-skin wall hangings, the ancient Japanese resist-dying technique of shibori has gone mainstream.
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