Tiny Monkey Is Tiny

huffingtonpost.com 10 hours ago

This little creature is technically a pygmy marmoset. But did we mention that it's tiny?

 
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Mountain of Petroleum Coke From Oil Sands Rises in Detroit

nytimes.com 9 hours ago

Refining Canada’s petroleum-soaked oil sands produces petroleum coke, which an environmentalist calls “the dirtiest residue from the dirtiest oil on earth.”

 
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Not Your Grandpa's RV: This Roving Lab Tracks Air Pollution

npr.org 42 mins ago

Atmospheric scientist Ira Leifer installed special air sensors on a camper, then drove from Florida to California, measuring methane levels all along the way...

 
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Puppy Meets Dastardly Rival

huffingtonpost.com 15 hours ago

This puppy either found an incredible foe or a friend for life in this doorstop. Via Daily Picks And Flicks

 
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Ethical shopping: how the high street fashion stores rate

guardian.co.uk 15 hours ago

Lucy Siegle: Last month's factory collapse in Bangladesh revealed horrible truths about the clothes industry. There has never been a better time to choose your shopping carefully

 
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The founders of Plümo offer their tips for your summer wardrobe

guardian.co.uk 2 hours ago

Esther and Verena Roth, founders of Plümo, tell us what's making stylish online shoppers click this summer

 
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LOOK: Adorable Coyote Pup On The Mend After Horrific Encounter With Cactus

huffingtonpost.com 15 hours ago

A coyote puppy suffered what would have been a deadly encounter with a cholla cactus on Tuesday. Thankfully, three good Samaritans came to its rescue and their story is now going viral.

 
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Obama's Arctic strategy sets off a climate time bomb

guardian.co.uk 19 hours ago

Nafeez Ahmed: US National Strategy for the Arctic Region prioritises corporate 'economic opportunities' at the expense of everyone else

 
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Hillary Clinton Weighs In On Climate Change

huffingtonpost.com 10 hours ago

"We are in a race against time," former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Wednesday night, in an interview with actor Harrison Ford...

 
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Another Study Finds Fracking Didn’t Contaminate Water

theblaze.com 19 hours ago

Tests and scientific experts have already claimed that many health and environmental concerns tied to hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, often voiced by opponents of the process, lack scientific...

 
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Australia's 'unpopular' carbon price isn't to blame for Labor's poor polling

guardian.co.uk 17 May

Alexander White: Claims that Julia Gillard's unpopularity were linked to her introduction of carbon pricing in 2012 don't stack up

 
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British Girl Drowns In Pool At Egyptian Resort

uk.news.yahoo.com 11 hours ago

A six-year-old British girl has drowned in a pool at an Egyptian resort in Sharm el Sheikh.

 
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Artist finds inspiration in Canadian government's attempt to silence her

guardian.co.uk 22 hours ago

Visual essays by Franke James reveal how the 'troublesome artist' was targeted because her views on climate change clashed with the push to develop Alberta's tar sands

 
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10 Percent Of Facebook Users Aren't Human

huffingtonpost.com 19 hours ago

Facebook loves to talk about its ridiculously high number of users. Yes, Facebook has a whole lot of accounts, but many of them aren't humans.

 
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Ask a grown-up: who invented clothes?

guardian.co.uk 4 hours ago

Fashion writer Hadley Freeman answers eight-year-old Harriet's question

 
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China's Tallest Dam Gets Environmental Green Light

chinadigitaltimes.net 2 hours ago

At The Guardian, Jonathan Kaiman reports the approval by Chinese environmental officials of a proposed 314-meter-tall dam despite fears about its effects on the ecology of Sichuan’s Dadu River, an...

 
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17 Tiny Pigs Who Need To Get Real

huffingtonpost.com 15 hours ago

These tiny pigs think they have it all figured out, but they are due for a rude awakening. 1.

 
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Climate research nearly unanimous on human causes, survey finds

guardian.co.uk 15 May

Of more than 4,000 academic papers published over 20 years, 97.1% agreed that climate change is anthropogenic

 
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Green Movement activists live in fear as Iran's presidential election nears

guardian.co.uk 20 hours ago

A journalist and an activist tell of four years of struggle under the shadow of arrests, beatings and torture

 
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The week in wildlife – in pictures

guardian.co.uk 20 hours ago

Hungry sharks, frogs keen to mate and a mischievous leopard are among the pick of this week's images from the natural world

 
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Scientists Agree On Climate Change, Why Doesn't The Public?

npr.org 14 hours ago

A new study confirms that the vast majority of scientists who research the climate accept that the planet is warming and human beings are largely responsible...

 
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First ever underwater university lectures

sciencedaily.com 18 hours ago

Students at the University of Essex have taken their lectures to a whole new level -- 18 metres under the sea in remote Indonesia to be precise.

 
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Good News For 17 Puppies Found Dumped On Road

huffingtonpost.com 16 May

Days after a brood of puppies and their mother were founded dumped along the side of the road near an Indiana state park, all 17 pups — and mom, too — are headed to loving forever homes.

 
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Unreliable Sources 3: How the Media Help the Kochs & ExxonMobil Spread Climate Disinformation

huffingtonpost.com 21 hours ago

Despite the fact that ExxonMobil is still a significant contrarian funder, the flurry of media interest in the company's funding agenda sparked by UCS's exposé died down soon after its release and...

 
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How Criminology Might Help Fight Poaching

huffingtonpost.com 13 hours ago

Douglas Main, LiveScience Staff Writer: Newark, N.J...

 
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A puffin lays an egg - video

guardian.co.uk 17 May

National Trust footage of a puffin laying an egg in its burrow on the Farne Islands. Puffins are being counted over the next two months to assess whether extreme weather has affected breeding numbers

 
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Northeast Japan jolted by magnitude 5.9 quake

reuters.com 4 hours ago

TOKYO (Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 jolted northeastern Japan on Saturday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

 
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Chelsea flower show makes its beds, and peace, with garden gnomes

guardian.co.uk 17 hours ago

Royal Horticultural Society to unveil 100 'brightly coloured mythical creatures' painted for charity by celebs after lifting century-old ban

 
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Water Trapped For 1.5 Billion Years Could Hold Ancient Life

npr.org 16 May

Scientists have discovered water that was sealed in Canadian bedrock for nearly half of Earth's history. It may contain the descendants of ancient microbes...

 
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WATCH: Death Valley 'Dreamlapse'

huffingtonpost.com 16 May

This "dreamlapse" of Death Valley is simply stunning. The skies above the famed desert valley are put on display as the stars dance across the frame and a pink aurora is seen on the horizon.

 
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Agriculture in China predates domesticated rice: New discovery of ancient diet shatters conventional...

sciencedaily.com 21 hours ago

Archaeologists have made a discovery in southern subtropical China which could revolutionize thinking about how ancient humans lived in the region.

 
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What the frack do we know? Not much, it turns out

grist.org 23 hours ago

A new report in the journal Science says that we don't yet have the full story on hydraulic fracturing. Haha. Too late. We've fracked half the country anyway.

 
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