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No, a Chinese satellite probably isnt falling out of the sky, and NASA isnt hiding evidence of alien life
2016-07-14 17:45:23| Extremetech
Despite some breathless reporting, the sky isn't falling -- and large satellites aren't falling out of it to smash the Earth, either.
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Species Loss, the Migration Hiding in Plain Sight
2016-05-23 11:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Two months ago, I was in Agadez, a city in the middle of the famous Ténéré Desert of Niger. Agadez has become a major transit point on a hazardous journey for the hundreds and thousands of desperate people from all over West Africa trying to make it to the Mediterranean coast every year. Monique Barbut The loss of productive land and unpredictability of the rainy seasons has left many Sahelians with far too few options. Their livelihoods are under threat. When communities that are culturally...
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How hiding cash in your mattress can hurt your house-hunting prospects
2016-01-20 22:19:17| Real Estate - Topix.net
It may be tempting in the middle of a market meltdown to stash your cash in your mattress instead of investing it in the stock market. But if you want to buy a home, you may not be able to use that cash for the down payment.
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The Antarctic Ice Sheet may be hiding the world's largest canyon system
2016-01-14 17:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: Geologists studying satellite imagery of the remote Princess Elizabeth Land in East Antarctica, one of the largest unsurveyed land surfaces on Earth, have discovered evidence of a massive subglacial canyon system buried beneath the ice. Tipped off by the physical hints, the team of researchers utilized radio-echo sounding to pull back the white curtain and peer through the ice. What they found is an absolute monstrosity of geology, a canyon system believed to be more than 685 miles long and as...
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Ice sheets may be hiding vast reservoirs of powerful greenhouse gas
2016-01-13 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] The study indicates that under the frigid weight of Barents Sea Ice sheet, which covered northern Eurasia some 22 000 years ago, significant amounts of methane may have been stored as hydrates in the ground. As the ice sheet retreated, the methane rich hydrates melted, releasing the climate gas into the ocean and atmosphere for millennia. This finding was published last week in Nature Communications in the paper “Ice-sheet-driven methane storage and rele…