Friday, January 4, 2013

How climate shifts sparked human evolution | Essentials

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How climate shifts sparked human evolution

Olduvai Gorge - The Cradle of Mankind
Olduvai Gorge - The Cradle of Mankind by wwarby
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Nicolle Rager Fuller / NSF The first specimen of Paranthropus boisei, also called Nutcracker Man, was reported by Mary and Louis Leakey in 1959 from a site in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

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Residents Battle High Water in South Dakota Town | Synopsis

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Residents Battle High Water in South Dakota Town

Finch Lake Rainy Day - HDR
Finch Lake Rainy Day - HDR by finchlake2000
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Standing along a South Dakota waterside bolstered with stones, Kevin Jens peered at the placid lake and reminisced about a roadway that led to a preferred location to fish and picnic nearby however now lies underwater after being eaten up by rising waters. "There's an island under there," the mayor of Waubay said, burglarizing an uncomfortable laugh and indicating a grove of dead trees jutting from the water about a mile away. At a time when much of the Upper Midwest wrestled with the worst drought in decades, locals in this northeastern South Dakota area that sits among a chain of glacial lakes are raising roadways, draining areas, moving their houses or leaving town.

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Kevin Jens

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-0.19335"What really makes them worry is where is our tax base and where is our revenue going to come from in the future," Jens said. ...
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Rick Breske

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0.0935289Rick Breske said residents are "trying hard to do the best we can to deal with the situation."
0.0627956"I give a lot of credit to the people who aren't picking up and leaving," he said. ...
0"A lot of people took buyouts. We decided to move," he said. ...
0"A lot of people took buyouts. We decided to move," he said. "We've spent a lot of money remodeling over the years and like our house."
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New NASA Images Show The Earth's Electric Light Show | Redux

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New NASA Images Show The Earth's Electric Light Show

International Space Station
International Space Station by pauly...
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That's the word from Mitch Goldberg, program scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association's Joint Polar Satellite System. Together with NASA, scientists have unveiled a new composite, cloud-free image of our planet at night. The imagery, which was posted to NASA's website on Wednesday, shows the planet bathed in cool blue, with city lights radiating out in sinewy yellow splotches. The pictures that make up the massive composite image were taken over nine days in April and 13 days in October of this year, by an instrument on a satellite that's "sensitive enough to detect the nocturnal glow produced by Earth's atmosphere and the light from a single ship in the sea," NASA states. The satellite collected 2.

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Continent: Africa

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Country: U.S.

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