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17-Aug-09

Early farming methods caused climate change, say researchers

"Farmers thousands of years ago cleared land by burning forests and moved to a new area once the yields declined, say scientists"

Category: Climate Change

16-Aug-09

High hopes for global warming satellite after first probe plunged into the Arctic Ocean

"It was rated one of the most damaging setbacks to hit the study of global warming: on 8 October, 2005, a £100m probe designed to measure ice thickness at the poles plunged into the Arctic ocean minutes after launch"

Category: Climate Change, Space

16-Aug-09

India's unsustainable lesson

"Nasa's just-released finding that water tables in the northwest of India are falling by about 4cm (1.6in) per year is a striking microcosm of the unsustainable strain that modern societies are putting on the Earth's natural...

Category: Climate Change

16-Aug-09

New exoplanet orbits 'backwards'

"Astronomers have discovered the first planet that orbits in the opposite direction to the spin of its star."

Category: Space

14-Aug-09

Early toolmakers were 'engineers'

"Early modern humans in South Africa were using "heat treatment" to improve their stone tools about 72,000 years ago, according to new research."


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