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- posted by Zahra Hirji at Discovery News - Top Stories - 34 minutes agoTo halt encroaching desertification, a group of African nations wants to plant a "Great Green Wall" of trees extending from Senegal to Ethiopia.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 46 minutes ago** *Emergency Fundraising* *Earthcycles/Censored News live broadcast at US Social Forum Detroit* By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ Earthcycles and Censored News will broad...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 14 hours agoThe nuclear-capable, medium-range ballistic missile, Prithvi-II was successfully test-fired from the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, off the Orissa Coast on Friday. The missile which was fired from a mob...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 14 hours agoThe Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) is set to start commercial negotiations with aircraft engine makers Eurojet Turbo GmbH and General Electric Aviation for 99 aircraft engines for the Light Combat A...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 14 hours agoIn spite of being built for 17 years, nuclear-powered submarine Severodvinsk will be armed with most advanced weapons and, perhaps, will become the world most silent sub, said Capt 1 rank Alexei Poteshkin,...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 14 hours agoTwo crewmembers of an F-5F fighter jet were killed Friday as the aging jet crashed into waters off the country’s west coast during a routine training mission. The Air Force immediately suspended operations...
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 19 hours agoShipping containers have been redesigned to become housing, offices, and even health clinics, but now a startup in Tucson is transforming them into sun-free, soil-free greenhouses.
- posted by Tracy Staedter at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoWhat do the Eastern spotted skunk, the striped skunk, black bear and long-tailed weasel have in common? They are just four of 117 endangered species in the state of Alabama -- which ranks 3rd in the countr...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 21 hours agoDoom-sayers had long predicted that the lost, possibly ill whale would not live much longer.
- posted by Zahra Hirji at Discovery News - Top Stories - 22 hours agoArchaeologists are finding elaborate offerings at a dig site they believe will ultimately yield an elusive prize: the tomb of an Aztec emperor, the first of its kind.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 22 hours ago*URANIUM IS THE NEW ASBESTOS * ** * * *AUSTRALIA: UNION BAN ON NUCLEAR WORK * http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/uranium-is-the-new-asbestos-union-ban-on-nuclear-work-20100531-wonk.html AAP, Brisbane...
- posted by Talal Al-Khatib at Discovery News - Top Stories - 23 hours agoAbove, you'll see some of the top images of the week. Click on each one to explore the story behind it. In case you couldn't get away from the beach this past week, here are five can't-miss Discovery News ...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoCommanding NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, a group of elementary school students have made an exciting discovery: a lava tube skylight punched though the Martian surface.
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoFive sharpshooters fired bullets through the heart of a double murderer in Utah in what was was billed as a bloody throwback to Old West-style justice.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoENVIRONMENT - A dead sperm whale has been found floating a couple of km south of the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Environmentalists are now warning this could be the first of many sperm whales kille...
- posted by null at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA memory skill that pianists have little control over may orchestrate their performance.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoNo one knows just how the Gulf's corals are being affected by the spill, but scientists are worried since the organisms support an array of life.
- posted by David Teeghman at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoSo far, about 1,000 species of yeasts have been identified in food labs, but at least 10,000 new species are expected to be found in the near future. Cheers!
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 1 day agoTECHNOLOGY - Want more proof that we now live in a widescreen world? At this rate by January 2012 at least 91% of the world will be using wide screen monitors... the exceptions will be companies with off...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoDuring an exciting day out in London, I was invited to the launch of YuriGagarin50, a celebration of British and Russian advancements in space science.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThe world's largest dams skim a little off the top from the ocean, but also depress Earth's crust, making sea level do funny things.
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoThere have been no other cases of ancient humans eating hyenas, but this find may represent an exception.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day agoBy Stephen Pipkin-Savage Dennis Banks, co-founder of the American Indian Movement in the late '60s, announced on Facebook and by private interview with this reporter that he would be going to the oil-ravag...
- posted by Len Hart at The Existentialist Cowboy - 1 day agoby Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy ‘Police States’ are what they do! One of the things police states do is deny citizens a voice even as they seek to control information themselves. Lately and not sur...
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoDamselfish farmers seem to have a "green thumb," nurturing, harvesting and even defending their algae plots.
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- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoChina Thursday vowed to take its military ties with Pakistan to a new height and defended its nuclear cooperation with Islamabad to build two new reactors for the country. Gen Kayani heading a high level P...
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- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoThe aerospace and defence sector in the country is growing leaps and bounds and is fast emerging as a key participant in the Asia-Pacific region. The US and European aerospace companies are now recognising...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoRussia's fifth generation fighter will be about three times as cheap as its foreign analog, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.He observed the test flight of a prototype fighter and lat...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoRussia's Defense Ministry will order at least 50 fifth-generation fighters from 2016, a senior official said on Thursday."At the first stage, there will be dozens of planes, more than 50," said Vladimir Po...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoLockheed Martin has confirmed that the United Arab Emirates has resumed talks with rival bidders for a contract to supply a fleet of advanced jet trainer and light attack aircraft, about 16 months after si...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 1 day agoUS Defense Secretary Robert Gates defended US arms sales to Taipei on Wednesday, citing China's "extraordinary" deployment of cruise and ballistic missiles opposite Taiwan. Both Gates and Admiral Michael M...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoEver wonder where the troposphere and stratosphere is? Take a look at this stunning photo from the space station to see atmospheric layering in all its beauty.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 1 day ago*US Social Forum Indigenous Events* *Invitation to all Indigenous Peoples* June 22nd-26th Detroit, MI Indigenous Environmental Network Newsletter http://www.ienearth.org/ The US Social Forum is happening f...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoArchaeologists finally have a clear timeline for the ruling dynasties of ancient Egypt thanks to carbon dating.
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoWhen animals are severely deprived of oxygen prior to exposure to near-freezing temperatures, they can enter a state of suspended animation.
- posted by Kieran Mulvaney at Discovery News - Top Stories - 1 day agoA dead whale on the beach raises two questions: What do we do with it? And how long until it explodes?
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoSoccer has been difficult to break into statistics, but researchers devise a way to objectively determine the best players.
- posted by Zahra Hirji at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoScientists discovered that a 4.2 percent change in deforestation of the Amazon yields a 48 percent increase in malaria outbreaks in Brazil.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoSharks, dolphins and other marine dwellers are fleeing the Gulf oil spill, heading to beaches and other coastal areas.
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoTop predators from Belize to Massachusetts carry drug-resistant forms of bacteria. They could be passing it back to humans on our dinner plates.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoVideo shows fish dying in a recent Chevron oil spill in Utah.
- posted by Nima Shirazi at Wide Asleep in America - 2 days ago"Our situation is like a football match. The superpower countries are the players, and we are just the ball to be kicked around." - A young Pakistani civilian, North Waziristan The Great Game is indeed a...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days ago***By Brenda Norrell* *Narcosphere* http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/brenda-norrell/2010/06/border-news-reporters-are-now-enemies-truth . People who live along the US/Mexico border have a new online...
- posted by David Teeghman at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoGPS technology can now be used to keep track of where visitors are going in a location like an amusement park.
- posted by Eric Bland at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoNot all lasers produce light. This new technology is actually designed to reduce it.
- posted by Alison at Creekside - 2 days ago"Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? ...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 2 days agoThe government may have decided not to draft it for the anti-naxal offensive, but the Indian Army has started preparing for the possibility of being called upon to tackle what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoIf seeing is believing, this picture comes as sweet relief to a satellite operations team in Japan that has been overseeing the flight of an experimental solar sailing spacecraft.
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 2 days agoIndia and South Korea will discuss the contours of a bilateral civilian nuclear deal and map out steps to achieve a $30 billion trade when the foreign ministers of the two countries hold talks in Seoul on ...
- posted by Cristen Conger at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoCrater formation is a a mysterious science, and one we won't get a good handle on until man returns to the pripristine craters of thelunar landscape.
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 2 days agoDefense Minister Kim Tae-young said Tuesday that South Korea and the United States have postponed joint naval exercises again as the two allies are stepping up diplomatic efforts to censure North Korea for...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 2 days agoBy Jung Sung-ki Cutting its teeth on component manufacturing and licensed production of U.S. weapons over the past decades, South Korea has emerged as a global arms developer, the head of the nation’s weap...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 2 days agoA squadron of F-4D Phantom fighter jets conducted its last flight Wednesday, ending its 41 years of service with the ROK Air Force. A ceremony for the decommissioning of the aircraft was held at the 11th F...
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 2 days agoRussia is ready to participate in a tender to offer Turkey S-300 and S-400 surface-to-air missile systems, the state-controlled arms exporter said on Wednesday.The advanced version of the S-300 missile sys...
- posted by Irene Klotz at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoFresh off the successful debut flight of the Falcon 9 rocket, Space Exploration Technologies nailed a contract worth nearly $500 million to launch a network of communication satellites for Iridium.
- posted by Alyssa Danigelis at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoWhen it comes to green funerals, cremation actually has some serious environmental downsides. Now funerary experts are developing new techniques to bring humans closer to the Earth once we've left it. A wa...
- *Soccer World Championship in South-Africa*. I am no soccer fan, sorry folks. I am more fascinated by Nature, as you might know. The left picture I made when I was in SA a few years ago. I possibly couldn'...
- posted by Kasey-Dee Gardner at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoIt’s rare to catch a dog fighter in the middle of an actual fight, so when investigators are trying to convict suspected dog fighters, they need all the evidence they can get. That’s where DNA and -- even ...
- posted by Michael Reilly at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoEveryone knows air pollution is bad for us. But we might be losing sleep over it, literally, and suffering serious health problems as a result.
- posted by Zahra Hirji at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoScientists determined that the "Green Revolution" was greener than previously thought, preventing hundreds of billions of tons of greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere.
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 2 days agoScientists experiment with using airport body scanners for a less controversial purpose: screening ancient mummies.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 2 days agoClick on image to enlarge. Censored news reporter Brenda Norrell http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days agoBy Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ *Photo 1: Schools for Chiapas, where Mayans oppose using genetically modified seeds which damage heritage crops* *Photo 2: Navajo Farming, ...
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 days agoTECHNOLOGY - Imagine if by 2050 we could cut pollution levels in half? Or have extra housing and food for 3 billion inhabitants? Now I am not saying it will happen any time soon, but the colonization of M...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoIn case you need one more reason to hit the gym today, here it is.
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 3 days ago...zzzZZZ* ...Woke up early this morning, to find that I left my radio on. Seems like the most interesting news is usually in the wee hours, as I listen to Bill Press on Air America KPOJ AM. Bill is inte...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoAdding a small amount of fertilizer to weeds can make them tastier to hungry animals.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoIn the animal kingdom, a male's vocalizations are sometimes are tied to physical strength. Human men turn out to fit that phenomenon perfectly.
- posted by C. Moffat at Lilith News - 3 days agoTECHNOLOGY - Research In Motion (the makers of the BlackBerry) is coming out with a tablet device to serve as a larger-screen companion to its BlackBerry phone, as well as a smartphone with a slide-out key...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago*MNN: MANIFEST DESTINY TO MANIFEST INSANITY * ** *Mohawk Nation News* http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ MNN. June 14, 2010. Arizona’s image is taking a well-deserved beating over its racial profiling and...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 3 days ago*Aboriginal people protest at Canadian government's first "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" forum in Winnipeg, demand real inquiry into Indian residential schools* Winnipeg: June 16, 2010 By Hidden f...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoAs NASA scientists issue fresh warnings about the hazard of a massive solar storm neutralizing our power grids, how can we mitigate the effects of a solar onslaught?
- posted by Larry O'Hanlon at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoA new kind of fossilized dinosaur skin may help sort out real dino hide fossils from skin-like features in rocks.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 3 days agoAbout 25 percent of people experience flavors more vibrantly than everyone else.
- posted by ASIAN DEFENCE at ASIAN DEFENCE - 3 days agoPakistan is seeking advanced U.S. attack helicopters and other weapons as part of a comprehensive arms package to bolster preparations for what its military is calling a "silent surge" of more than 100,000...
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