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Astronomers discover new dwarf planet and possible super-Earth in our Solar System
2014-03-27 15:44:00| Extremetech
For the longest time, the Solar System was known to have nine planets. Eventually, Pluto got downgraded to a dwarf planet due to the discovery of various other celestial bodies found in the Solar System that were of similar size. Now, astronomers discovered a dwarf planet -- dubbed 2012 VP113 and just 279.6 miles wide -- orbiting the Sun. However, astronomers noticed that something seems out-of-place regarding its orbit, and speculate that the incongruence could originate from a massive body influencing VP113's orbit -- a super-Earth.
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Cool Planet And Organic Waste Solutions To Develop Breakthrough Water Treatment Technologies
2014-03-27 08:40:57| pollutiononline News Articles
Cool Planet Energy Systems, a developer of solutions for the energy, food and water industries with drop-in fuels and advanced CoolTerra biochar products, announced recently the signing of a Memo of Understanding with Organic Waste Solutions, LLC
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New research shows why the planet is still heating up
2014-03-25 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: It seems like a new report on climate change is coming out every month. Not only did the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change release its latest state of the science assessment last fall. The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society, has also put out a report, albeit a much shorter one, that seeks to educate the public on "what we know" about climate change. Additionally, each year the World Meteorological Organization -- a U.N....
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Climate change is going to turn the Earth into a planet of hungry kids
2014-03-25 12:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Talk of climate change-induced disasters probably brings to mind Pacific islands disappearing into the ocean, powerful storm surges, overwhelming floods, and raging wildfires. But some of the impacts - stemming in part from some of these same phenomena - will be more prosaic, but just as deadly. Take food. A report released Monday evening by Oxfam America, an anti-poverty organization, finds that, food prices could double by 2030, with half of this rise driven by climate change. The result?...
Harvards destroying our planet: Americas grand, institutional failure to stop climate change
2014-03-23 16:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: hen faced with intractable problems, we often make up stories to console ourselves. The boats not really sinking, we say: Were just going through a rough patch. Were not headed for disaster; weve just been blown off course. Better to keep a bright outlook on things, we presume, than to acknowledge our desperate situation. This sort of hopeful self-deception was on exhibit three weeks ago at Harvard University, where a student activist confronted the universitys president, Drew Faust, over...
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