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Cleared of charges after explosion, Florida teen gets full scholarship to space academy	23.5.2013	Daily Kos
Kiera, 16-year-old junior, was arrested after the incident, which happened outside about 15 minutes before the school day began. No one was hurt, nor did she cause any damage. The school's resource officer arrested her on two possible felony charges, possessing a weapon on campus and discharging a destructive device. Kiera was suspended for 10 days, sent to an alternative school, which she still attends, and told she faced expulsion. The explosion struck a chord with 18-year NASA veteran Homer Hickam, a former lead astronaut training manager for Spacelab, and later for the International Space Station. In the late 1950s, Hickam had a brush with law enforcement for allegedly starting a forest fire. State police came to his high school and led him and his friends away in handcuffs, but his high school physics professor and school principal came to the rescue, clearing him of wrongdoing. "I couldn't let this go without doing something," Hickam said. "I'm not a lawyer, but I could give her ...
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Addressing land rights can make social change possible	23.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Through partnerships, development professionals can help improve land governance and ensure more enforceable land rights What elephant lives in your development space? Last week in Cape Town at Grow Africa's Investment Forum , Rwanda's minister of agriculture and animal resources, Agnes Kalibata, called out the elephant she sees in discussions of African agriculture: land rights. If you work on food security, climate change, women's empowerment, conflict or economic growth, chances are that you've also encountered the land elephant – the big, complex, disruptive element that frustrates so many development efforts. Precisely because land is a complex and controversial issue – one that can be expensive to address in addition to being politically and culturally charged – many development professionals have shied away from it. But this is changing. Greater willingness on the part of governments, donors, civil society, and the private sector to work together and invest to improve land ...
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International Day for Biodiversity - 22nd May 2013	22.5.2013	The Earth Times Online Newspaper - Health News
Biodiversity is the term given to the variety of life on Earth and the natural pattern it forms. The biodiversity we see today is the result of millions of years of evolution, initially shaped by natural processes, but in modern times increasingly as a result of human intervention. We are an integral part of the web of biodiversity and we depend on this web, as does every other life form on the planet.
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It's NOT a jungle out there - (any more)	22.5.2013	The Earth Times Online Newspaper - Health News
The tropical forests of the whole of South East Asia have been disappearing fast for years. The WWF and the EIA are now questioning just how long making a quick buck will take precedence over essential conservation.
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Pangolin Paradise in Vietnam	22.5.2013	The Earth Times Online Newspaper - Health News
When Chinese people eat scales of pangolins, they are destroying several species of a unique and precious mammal in the forest food web. Vietnam has begun the slow process of re-education and also getting the animals back into a depleted number of habitats.
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Drumbeat: May 20, 2013	20.5.2013	The Oil Drum
Wells Dry, Fertile Plains Turn to Dust Vast stretches of Texas farmland lying over the aquifer no longer support irrigation. In west-central Kansas, up to a fifth of the irrigated farmland along a 100-mile swath of the aquifer has already gone dry. In many other places, there no longer is enough water to supply farmers’ peak needs during Kansas’ scorching summers. And when the groundwater runs out, it is gone for good. Refilling the aquifer would require hundreds, if not thousands, of years of rains. This is in many ways a slow-motion crisis — decades in the making, imminent for some, years or decades away for others, hitting one farm but leaving an adjacent one untouched. But across the rolling plains and tarmac-flat farmland near the Kansas-Colorado border, the effects of depletion are evident everywhere. Highway bridges span arid stream beds. Most of the creeks and rivers that once veined the land have dried up as 60 years of pumping have pulled groundwater levels down by scores and even ...
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A second chance to save the climate	19.5.2013	New Scientist: Being Human
A second chance to save the climate
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Green diary rescue: Pedal power, electric cars, OFA on climate change	19.5.2013	Daily Kos
Every week Daily Kos diarists write dozens of environmentally related posts. Many don't get the readership they deserve. Helping improve the odds is the motivation behind the Green Diary Rescue. In the past seven years, there have been 226 of these spotlighting more than 12,645 eco-diaries. Below are categorized links and excerpts to 64 more that appeared in the past seven days. That makes for lots of good reading during the spare moments of your weekend. [ Disclaimer: Inclusion of a diary in the rescue does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.] Mr. President, Arctic Ice Loss Portends a Climate Tsunami: The National Arctic Strategy is Suicidal —by FishOutofWater : "President Obama, your advisers just don't get it. We should be running as fast as we can from fossil fuels, not going out to sea to get more of them. The loss of summer sea ice portends a climate tsunami. The ice is keeping the Arctic cold, even in summer. Retreat of the ice is accelerating the ...
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Maps of the rare and unusual	18.5.2013	Earth Times
The protection of our fauna and flora is becoming one of the most important tasks of this generation, as more and more become endangered by human greed. Politics is part of the answer but initiatives such as those of the ZSL have a great part to play.
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May 18 Readers' letters: Governor's fixation on four-year graduation rates and California's overcrowded prisons	18.5.2013	San Jose Mercury News: Letters
Letters from Mercury News readers.
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Worsening A Warming-Fueled Wildfire Season, Sequestration Threatens Firefighting Efforts	16.5.2013	Think Progres
Worsening A Warming-Fueled Wildfire Season, Sequestration Threatens Firefighting Efforts
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'Green News Report' - May 14, 2013	15.5.2013	BradBlog
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Sequester budget cuts hit federal firefighting response during an early wildfire season; More good news for Tesla Motors, bad news for loser Mitt Romney; Scientists accidentally discover new way to make cleaner steel; Another city votes for solar on all new construction; PLUS: Sec. of State ...
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After Fern Lake fire in Rocky Mountain National Park, new life forms	15.5.2013	Denver Post: News: Local
After Fern Lake fire in Rocky Mountain National Park, new life forms
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May 13 News: Loss Of Rain Forest Leads To More CO2, Less Hydroelectric Power	14.5.2013	Think Progres
May 13 News: Loss Of Rain Forest Leads To More CO2, Less Hydroelectric Power
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New life springs from ashes of Fern Lake fire	14.5.2013	Headlines: All Headlines
An unprecedented post-Thanksgiving wildfire that burned through snow, frustrating firefighters as ponds froze and ice coated helicopters, has revitalized forests and meadows in Rocky Mountain National Park.
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Drumbeat: May 13, 2013	13.5.2013	The Oil Drum
Old Technology Fuels New Energy Boom What’s happening today is not a new-technology revolution; it’s an evolution of new applications for existing technology. Oil companies are doing things that they’ve been doing for decades more efficiently, more effectively, and in much wider applications. That may sound like a fine distinction, but it’s an important one: Silicon Valley has for years invested in sexy new technologies, from smartphones to social media to exotic solar power materials. The cleantech industry itself has not benefited from a fascination with the new, the exotic, and the high-tech. The technology for embedding sensors with fiber-optic connections in a drill head so that technicians on the surface can map a formation as they drill it is not all that sexy, and it didn’t come from a VC-funded startup in a Mountain View garage. It came from drilling engineers in the field figuring out, gradually, how to do things better, cheaper, and smarter. Often, as in the case of the 21st century ...
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Study says common plants, animals are threatened by climate change	13.5.2013	Twincities.com: Nation
WASHINGTON -- Climate change could lead to the widespread loss of common plants and animals around the world, according to a study released Sunday, May 12, in the journal Nature Climate Change.
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Pyros, the ursine romeo of the Pyrenees	12.5.2013	The Earth Times Online Newspaper - Environment News
When it comes to bears, it's possible that one male will often father many of the cubs in an area. This bear shows us this is indeed possible, and could be true for several species with limited distribution possibilities.
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Green diary rescue: Wading out of the abstract into the practicalities of sustainability	12.5.2013	Daily Kos
Every week Daily Kos diarists write dozens of environmentally related posts. Many don't get the readership they deserve. Helping improve the odds is the motivation behind the Green Diary Rescue. In the past seven years, there have been 225 of these spotlighting more than 12,630 eco-diaries. Below are categorized links and excerpts to 72 more that appeared in the past seven days. That makes for lots of good reading during the spare moments of your weekend. [ Disclaimer: Inclusion of a diary in the rescue does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.] Sustainability: The Challenge of Change —by phoenixvoice : "I don’t know of any non-lethal ways to handle wasps’ nests—but I figure that wasps are probably good pollinators. I needed a quick solution, so that the guys could get on with the work I was paying them to do. They had dealt with this problem in the past, and wasp spray was how they would handle it. So we got the wasp spray. My friend recognized the can ...
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Greenhouse gas milestone; CO2 levels set record	11.5.2013	Minnesota Public Radio: Science
Worldwide levels of the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming have hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal scientists said Friday.
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