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Warm summer helps butterflies bounce back in the UK
2013-07-18 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Azores high is seeing small tortoiseshells and meadow browns returning to gardens and the countryside in heartening numbers after butterflies suffered their worst year on record in 2012. People are being urged to help measure how these insects are bouncing back in the sunshine by joining the Big Butterfly Count, the world's largest butterfly survey launched on Thursday by Sir David Attenborough and Joanna Lumley for the charity Butterfly Conservation. "It's an extremely exciting setup for...
Greek MPs back public sector cuts
2013-07-18 00:26:48| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The parliament in Greece approves a public sector reform bill that will see thousands of people lose their jobs, amid protests outside.
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Smart neural dust could carry sensors deep into the human brain, send data back out
2013-07-17 14:30:36| Extremetech
You can't do science without data, and a team at Berkeley has proposed a method to get a lot more data about the brain. All they need to do is sprinkle your brain with tiny dust-like sensors.
Snapshot: Michael Kors sues Costco +Twinkies back, but smaller
2013-07-16 14:40:59| Jewelry - Topix.net
Michael Kors is suing Costco saying the business illegally used pictures of its luxury bags in ads to attract customers without being authorized to sell the designer's wares, reports The Associated Press.
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The World Bank is bringing back big, bad dams
2013-07-16 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The big, bad dams of past decades are back in style. In the 1950s and '60s, huge hydropower projects such as the Kariba, Akosombo and Inga dams were supposed to modernise poor African countries almost overnight. It didn't work out this way. As the independent World Commission on Dams found, such big, complex schemes cost far more but produce less energy than expected. Their primary beneficiaries are mining companies and aluminium smelters, while Africa's poor have been left high and dry. The...
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