A fate worse than debt

Source: EcoEarth News

We are now living in the Anthropocene era during which, since the industrial revolution, humans have become the main agents of change to the Earth’s systems in several areas, not just climate change and the o ...
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Global warming winner: Once rare butterfly thrives

Source: The Alexandria Town Talk

WASHINGTON -- Global warming is rescuing the once-rare brown Argus butterfly, scientists say. Man-made climate is threatening the existence of many species, such as the giant polar bear. But in the case of the small drab British butterf ...
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Striking a balance for the future of shorelines won’t be easy

Source: The Olympian

But none of those may generate as much community debate as the adoption of the city’s first Shoreline Management Program, or SMP. Given the serious tensions within the Olympia Planning Commission throughout its seemingly endl ...
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Ecuador’s lodges put rainforest right outside

Source: The Register Guard

EL ORIENTE, Ecuador — This is one rainforest the world has saved. After donors around the globe pledged $116 million by the December 2011 deadline to prevent oil drilling in the biologically fragile Yasuni National Park, the Ecuadorian government agree ...
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Ju/'Hoansi Kinship

Source: OpPapers.com

Kinship – a social institution The Ju’hoansi people are from Botswana Africa. Their kinship system is definitely a social institution in the eyes of Canadian anthropologist, Richard Lee. Lee wrote his ethnography ...
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Expert panel for curtailing commercial plantations in W Ghats

Source: Deccan Herald

Terming the expansion of commercial plantations in Western Ghats as the reason behind its ecological ''degradation'', an expert panel has recommended urgent curtailment in the ''disastrous'' farming practice in the ecologically sensitive ...
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University of Kansas graduates

Source: HutchNews.com

Albert: Leslie Fitzsimmons, Bachelor of Art Education, Derek Yarmer, Doctor of Medicine; Arlington: Andrea Bontrager, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Autumn Morning Sky, Bachelor of Science in Journalism and Psychology minor; Bucklin: Samantha ...
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Quilting with Green

Source: Bella Online

On the colour wheel there are three greens. The first is the secondary color Green which is made when combining the primary colours of Green and Blue. The other two greens are blue green and yellow green which are found on th ...
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Campus notes

Source: Reading Eagle

Honors are signified as follows: ***with highest distinction; **with high distinction; *with distinction. Elena M. Smith, Reading, received a master of business administration degree from Alvernia University. *** Joshua R. Hummel, Exeter Townshi ...
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