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<title>Interview: James Lovelock on Climate Change</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The United Nation�s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) just released a...]]></description>
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<title>Going Green: On Earth and Beyond</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scientists are now looking at how research into space can help the Earth � and vice...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Glaciers in Uganda, East Africa are receding at an alarming rate due to global warming. Dubbed...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Fragments of an ancient asteroid have revealed new details about asteroid impacts on...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Layers of sand in the earth have helped seismologists investigate the history of earthquakes in...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Hurricane Katrina left in its wake 1300 dead, and hundreds of thousands homeless. Scientists had...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Diamonds, rubies and sapphires captivate us by their symbolic values of wealth and power, and...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The Dec 26th 2004 Indonesian megathrust earthquake quickened Earth's rotation and changed our...]]></description>
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<title>The Fury of Hurricanes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When Hurricane Andrew of 1992 came booming ashore in South Florida, it caused the United States'...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Storm of the Century - Hurricane Floyd Floyd can be traced back to a tropical wave that emerged...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The western U.S. is facing yet another summer of severe drought. Science provides some answers as...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Global Warming is a reality, and whilst most of us are focusing on the ecological concerns. Some...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Click here for others comments about this article From the dawn of time, people have suspected...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The death of the dinosaurs wasn&rsquo;t unique. There have been 17 major extinctions of life...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Our planet's magnetic field is in a constant state of change, say researchers who are beginning...]]></description>
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