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Biological ‘Fountain Of Youth’ Found In New World Bat Caves

Scientists from Texas are batty over a new discovery which could lead to the single most important medical breakthrough in human history—significantly longer lifespans.

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Biological ‘Fountain Of Youth’ Found In New World Bat Caves

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Intertropical Convergence Zone of Heavy Preciptiation Moving North

The rain band near the equator that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300 years, probably because of a warmer world, according to research published in the July issue of Nature Geoscience. If the band continues to migrate at just less than a mile (1.4 kilometers) a year, which is the average for all the years it has been moving north, then some Pacific islands near the equator — even those that currently enjoy abundant rainfall — may be drier within decades and starved of freshwater by midcentury or sooner. The prospect of additional warming because of greenhouse gases means that situation could happen even sooner.

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Intertropical Convergence Zone of Heavy Preciptiation Moving North

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The Climate Change Debate: The History and The Forefathers

To many of us it seems as though the climate change debate is only a recent phenomena, and indeed, we have been positively bombarded by the media coverage of global warming in the past decade.

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The Climate Change Debate: The History and The Forefathers