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reuters Airline tycoon Richard Branson announced on Friday a $25 million prize for the first person to come up with a way of scrubbing greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere in the battle to beat global warming. Flanked by climate campaigners former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and British ex-diplomat Crispin Tickell, Branson said he [...]

Discovery Channel Researchers in the remote forests of Cambodia said Wednesday they have discovered the only known colony in Southeast Asia of slender-billed vultures and scores of other endangered birds. The colony was discovered last month in the jungles east of the Mekong River in Cambodia’s Stung Treng Province. “We discovered the nests on top [...]

ScienceDaily While government leaders argue about the practicality of reducing world emissions of carbon dioxide, scientists and engineers are seeking ways to make it happen. One group of engineers at MIT decided to focus its work on the nanostructure of concrete, the world’s most widely used material. The production of cement, the primary component of [...]

news @ nature Climate factors such as sea-level rise may be changing more rapidly than predicted, according to a new survey of global trends since 1990. The figures suggest that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which publishes a fresh assessment of climate change tomorrow, may have previously underestimated the changes that lie ahead. [...]

reuters From a boat at sea, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef seems invincible — its myriad corals stretching 2,300 kilometers (1,400 miles) beyond sight. But the reef’s vastness and wave-smashing outcrops mask fragility in the face of climate change threatening to bleach its fluorescent depths the stark white of death. The reef, and possibly the A$5.8 [...]

OneEarth.Org A very nice video about the Mother Earth Planet and how important she is. Click here to watch the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL5VdPiFD5w