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2 hrs ago | KESQ-TV Palm Desert

Gov. Brown continues climate change crusade

Gov. Jerry Brown is set to continue his climate change charge, joining scientists releasing a 20-page call to action on environmental problems including pollution, extinctions and population growth.

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Related Topix: Jerry Brown, US Governors, Environment, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

6 hrs ago | Seattle Times

Mexico cartel dominates, torches western state

The farm state of Michoacan is burning. A drug cartel that takes its name from an ancient monastic order has set fire to lumber yards, packing plants and passenger buses in a medieval-like reign of terror.

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Related Topix: Life, Fruits, Food, Prison, Agriculture

10 hrs ago | KTVN Reno

Submerged structure stumps Israeli archaeologists

TIBERIAS, Israel - The massive circular structure appears to be an archaeologists dream: a recently discovered antiquity that could reveal secrets of ancient life in the Middle East and is just waiting to be excavated.

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Related Topix: Archaeology, Anthropology, Israel, World News, Middle East

Wed May 22, 2013

The Compass

Household hazardous waste collection focusing on smaller communities

The Multi-Materials Stewardship Board will be partnering with volunteer fire departments in rural communities across the province, as well as the City of Corner Brook and the Town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay, to provide people a convenient way to properly dispose of household hazardous waste.

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Related Topix: Environment, Canada,

Seattle Times

Senate rejects bid to let states run food stamps

Known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the food stamp program is administered by the Agriculture Department and federal dollars are unlimited as long as recipients qualify.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, US Politics, James Inhofe, US News, US Senate, Republican, Debbie Stabenow, Democrat, David Vitter

WKXW-FM Trenton

Did You See a Meteor Over The Weekend?

A bright light seen traveling across the sky over the weekend by dozens of witnesses across Maryland and the region is what astronomers are calling a fragmenting meteoric fireball.

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Related Topix: Astronomy

Bellingham Herald

College fossil-fuel divestment movement builds

The Fossil Free campaign argues that if it's wrong to pour pollution into the air and contribute to climate change, it's also wrong to profit from it.

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Related Topix: Activism, Environment, Financial Markets, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Stanford University

www.science20.com | Cash

Kentucky Windage, For Science: Using Black Holes To Measure The Universe's Rate Of Expansion

The discovery of accelerating expansion was not trivial stuff. And using black holes to measure that rate is downright arcane...

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Sunherald.com

One block: How neighbors saw twister's deadly path

It was as if the storm outside were a living, breathing thing - and it was trying desperately to get in.

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Related Topix: Tornado, Natural Disasters, Home Listing, Home, Moore, OK, Oklahoma City, OK, Agriculture

GPB.org

Quantum Or Not, New Supercomputer Is Certainly Something Else

It's exactly the sort of futuristic thinking you'd expect from Google and NASA: Late last week, the organizations announced a partnership to build a Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab at NASA's Ames Research Center.

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Related Topix: Computers, Science / Technology, NASA, CPU, Computer Science

CBS Local

Senate Rejects GOP Bid To Let States Run Food Stamps

The current food stamp program is administered by the Agriculture Department and federal dollars are unlimited as long as recipients qualify.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, US Politics, James Inhofe, US News, US Senate, Republican

Washington Examiner

W.Va.'s local-food movement a model for Appalachia

With eight in 10 farmers making less than $10,000 a year, West Virginia will never rival big Midwestern factory farms in producing food.

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Related Topix: West Virginia, West Virginia Government, Life, Food, Local Food, Agriculture, Romney, WV, Hampshire County, WV

KMTR Eugene

Foster Farms recalls grilled chicken breast strips

Federal agriculture officials say chicken producer Foster Farms is recalling about 6,165 pounds of its ready-to-eat grilled chicken breast strips because the strips contain wheat and soy - known allergens - which are not listed on the labels of its packages.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Meat, Chicken, Life, Food

ComputerWorld

SAP to crunch and sell carriers' data on mobile use

Mobile operators collect huge amounts of data about how their subscribers use mobile data, and that information is starting to go on sale as targeted intelligence that enterprises can use to better reach consumers.

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Related Topix: Computer Science, Marketing

New Hampshire Public Radio -

African Cities Test The Limits Of Living With Livestock

Raising chickens has become so fashionable among some urban Americans that there's now a market for chicken diapers , as we reported this month.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Mozambique, Kenya,

Tue May 21, 2013

KFVS12

Thailand urged to explore edible insect market

Researchers say Thailand is showing the world how to respond to the global food crisis: by raising bugs for eating.

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Related Topix: Entomology, Agriculture

KLFY-TV Lafayette

Power of Moore tornado dwarfs Hiroshima bomb

Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create the massive killer tornado in Moore, Okla.

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Related Topix: Tornado, Natural Disasters, Moore, OK, Weather, Norman, OK, Meteorology

The Las Vegas Sun

Growers making up for lost time in planting corn

U.S. farmers who could only watch helplessly this spring as storm after storm left their fields a muddy mess took to their tractors en masse last week and planted a record amount of corn acreage, even in areas where conditions are still far from perfect.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Weather, Illinois

The Wichita Eagle

New rice contamination reported in China

The mills in Hunan province's Youxian county were ordered to suspend business and recall their products after samples showed excessive levels of cadmium, according to an official notice issued Tuesday by the county government.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Agriculture, Health

Science Daily

The mammoth's lament: How cosmic impact sparked devastating climate change

Exactly what it was is unclear, but this event jump-started what Kenneth Tankersley, an assistant professor of anthropology and geology at the University of Cincinnati, calls the last gasp of the last ice age.

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Related Topix: Geology, University of Cincinnati, Wyandot County, OH