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7 Resolutions for a Better Planet
Posted by OurAmazingPlanet: Douglas Main on January 4th, 2013
OurAmazingPlanet: 2013 is here, and everyone is busy making (or already breaking) their New Year's resolutions. Mother Nature took a few minutes out of her busy schedule to share a few thoughts on how to improve the situation here on our planet with some New Year's resolutions that should be taken up by mankind.
Here are the top seven resolutions for the Earth in the New Year. Take it away, Mother Nature:
1. Prevent species from going extinct
Earth is in the midst of an enormous extinction crisis, the biggest...
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Why extreme heat follows dry spells
Posted by OurAmazingPlanet: Douglas Main on July 16th, 2012
OurAmazingPlanet: If it's been dry, it's more likely to get extremely hot, a new study suggests.
Around the world, long dry spells significantly increase the likelihood that there will be an above-average number of extremely hot summer days, according to a study published in the July 16 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The result could help predict extreme heat more than a month into the future, said study author Sonia Seneviratne, a researcher at ETH Zurich in Switzerland....