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These emotional photos cut to the heart the battle for this sacred Hawaiian mountain
Posted by Business Insider: Kelly Dickerson on June 26th, 2015
Business Insider: Hundreds of protestors flocked to Mauna Kea on Wednesday to block construction of the world's largest optical telescope.
It's the second time in the past few months that demonstrations have broken out on the dormant volcano.
Astronomers want to build the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) there because the cloudless air and dark skies offer one of the most pristine windows into the universe on Earth. From such a lofty perch, the observatory could reveal parts of the cosmos we've never glimpsed before....
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This inflammatory email has split astronomy community in two
Posted by Business Insider: Kelly Dickerson on May 28th, 2015
Business Insider: A remote piece of land 14,000 feet above sea level, Mauna Kea, is one of native Hawaiians' most sacred sites. It also happens to be one of the best places in the world to build a telescope capable of spotting parts of the universe no one has seen before.
And that's exactly what the plan is: build a $1.4 billion telescope, called the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), on the sacred summit. Native protesters threw a wrench into that plan however, and brought the construction of the telescope to a grinding...
How Gold Is Destroying Peru’s Rainforests
Posted by Business Insider: Kelly Dickerson on November 1st, 2013
Business Insider: This is the plane that the researchers used to survey the land and map where the mines are.
Years of illegal gold mining in Peru have taken a serious toll on the Amazon rainforest.
No one knew the full extent of the damage until a research team from the Carnegie Institution of Science and Peru's Ministry of the Environment used satellite imagery to map the damage.
Their findings are published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Greg Asner and his team of researchers found...