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Changing ocean temperatures and currents will force thousands of species to migrate polewards, including cod, herring, plaice and prawns.
2009-02-13
global migration global warming fish poleThe film brings together the arguments of leading scientists who disagree with the prevailing consensus that carbon dioxide released by human industrial activity is the cause of rising global temperatures today.
A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered. Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another. The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination. What's more, people are unwittingly helping the mega-colony...
2009-07-01
ecology evolution environment ant animal intelligence migration collective intelligence globalProject 10^100 is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.
The US will not shy away from attacking regimes it considers hostile, or groups it believes have nuclear or chemical weapons, the White House has confirmed.
2006-03-16
War On Terror terrorism USA aggresion globalThe United States is planning to build an unmanned hypersonic aircraft capable of striking any target in the world within two hours. ... The US will be able, using aircraft based on its own territory, to strike at individual targets without warning and without the need for foreign bases.
2003-07-01
USA military bombing invasion aircraft globalThis is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become. It chooses whether to continue living as it has done, until it must make a wasteland of its home, or to stop and redefine itself. This is about much more than climate change. This is about us.
2009-12-14
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It’s hard to decide what’s more frightening: that investors are losing confidence in paper money or that the shepherds of the world’s major currencies don’t get what’s going on. Gold’s climb of almost 30 percent in a year reflects fear, not just market concern over inflation or deflation risks. People have lost trust in the global financial system.
2010-06-14
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