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The Dogs Survive the "Dog Days Of August" and Remain on Top

2013-09-18 12:19:35| Biotech - Topix.net

As was the case in June, traders sold off equity holdings again in August, as bond yields headed higher.

Can the Planet (and Humans) Survive Technology?

2013-09-13 17:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yahoo!: Charles Dickens could have been talking about the 21st century when he wrote the lines: "These are the best of times, these are the worst of times." Technology can extend human life and take us into space, but it is also destroying the environment and threatening the survival of other species and humanity. Moving forward, what parts of nature should humans preserve? What will the future look like? Will we develop a stable, long-term relationship with technology? These were some of the issues a...

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How Sequoias Survive Wildfires

2013-08-27 00:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: As the Rim Fire rages in and around Yosemite National Park, biologists have taken steps to protect two groves of giant sequoia trees. One tree expert suspects, however, that the measures have more to do with public relations than with sound forest policy. The Rim Fire has burned for nine days, razing 134,000 acres, which makes it one of the biggest blazes in California's history. The flames have largely been confined to Yosemite's remote northwestern section, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from...

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How A Leaderless Climate Change Movement Can Survive

2013-08-19 21:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mother Jones: The history we grow up with shapes our sense of reality--it's hard to shake. If you were young during the fight against Nazism, war seems a different, more virtuous animal than if you came of age during Vietnam. I was born in 1960, and so the first great political character of my life was Martin Luther King, Jr. I had a shadowy, child's sense of him when he was still alive, and then a mythic one as his legend grew; after all, he had a national holiday. As a result, I think, I imagined that he set...

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