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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-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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0.0935289Rick Breske said residents are "trying hard to do the best we can to deal with the situation."
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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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Thursday, January 3, 2013

EPA finalizes stricter soot pollution limits | Essentials

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EPA finalizes stricter soot pollution limits

Coal-fired Power Plant
Coal-fired Power Plant by Rennett Stowe
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Friday tightened limits on harmful soot pollution from sources including power plants, diesel engines and burning wood. The new standards, which the Environmental Protection Agency was under court order to finalize, limit annual average soot emissions by the end of decade to about 12 micrograms per cubic meter of air from the standard of 15 micrograms set in 1997. Individual states will be responsible for deciding how to cut emissions of the fine particulates, which can lodge deep in the lungs and threaten the elderly, people with heart disease and children. Health problems associated with the pollution include premature death, acute bronchitis, and asthma.

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N.Y. Electrician Shortage Hampers Sandy Recovery | Redux

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N.Y. Electrician Shortage Hampers Sandy Recovery

World Trade Center from plaza, New York City]
World Trade Center from plaza, New York City] by SMU Central University Libraries
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Nearly a month after Sandy, thousands of New Yorkers still don't have electricity because they're waiting for an electrician to repair and certify wiring that was damaged by flooding. Some local officials have called on City Hall to allow electricians certified outside the city to work there until the crisis abates, but the city hasn't budged.

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Not just child's play: Don't take away recess, docs argue | Essentials

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Not just child's play: Don't take away recess, docs argue

NZ BodyArt 2008253
NZ BodyArt 2008253 by Aflickion
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One body. One mind. That's what each of us gets to last a lifetime. Get the critical news and views to keep yours healthy, sharp -- and safe.

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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Rare Mammoth Found in Great Shape | Essentials

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Rare Mammoth Found in Great Shape

Moving logs to build a storage structure, Kukak Bay, Alaska, archaeology project, 1964
Moving logs to build a storage structure, Kukak Bay, Alaska, archaeology project, 1964 by gbaku
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Sometimes scientists will admit they’re amazed that we know anything at all about the ancient past.   For the remains of a prehistoric animal to be found, conditions have to be just right.   It has to have died and been buried quickly, perhaps in the silt of a river.   Then it has to go undisturbed for eons, until someone finds it — and recognizes that it’s unusual. That’s why French scientists say they’re pleased to have found a nearly-complete skeleton of a woolly mammoth near Changis-sur-Marne, in the countryside northeast of Paris.   They nicknamed it Helmut. “A true discovery, in its original context, is exceptional in France, since only three specimens have been exhumed here in 150 years,” write researchers from France’s National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP), in an announcement posted on their website and translated by ABC News.

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Watch: California Teen Survives 6 Rattlesnake Bites | Reduction

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Watch: California Teen Survives 6 Rattlesnake Bites

Sunset Veil's Myspace, V.2
Sunset Veil's Myspace, V.2 by mhogan35
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A viral video shows a long-distance ten pin strike from the top of a hill. Henry Lefebrve's family doesn? t know how his ashes ended up at a car wash in California. Esme and Eve Photography founders skydive in underwear for their "Be Bold. Take a Leap" initiative. U of Texas student Charli Kilpatrick created a video of her dog preparing for a human day of work. External links are provided for reference purposes. ABC News is not responsible for the content of external Internet sites. Copyright © 2012 ABC News Internet Ventures. Yahoo!

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