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Mauna Kea’s Thirty Meter Telescope Project Further Protests
Posted by NY City News: None Given on May 3rd, 2015
NY City News: In what can be seen are the most aggressive move of the protesters against the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) in the last seven years, was yesterday’s blockade along the way that led to the construction site.
Thursday saw the Office of Hawaiian Affairs trustees take a strong stand on the question of the TMT by withdrawing support, which it earlier promised. The TMT, construction of which commenced in March, now stands deferred, much to the opposition from the Hawaiian people.
The TMT has been...
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Global warming will kill off species worldwide: study
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 3rd, 2015
Associated Press: Global warming will eventually push one out of every 13 species on Earth (7.7 per cent) into extinction, a new study projects. It won't quite be as bad in North America, where one in 20 species (five per cent) will be killed off because of climate change, or Europe, where the extinction rate is nearly as small. But in South America, the forecasted heat-caused extinction rate soars to 23 per cent, the worst for any continent, a new study published Thursday in the journal Science states. University...