Environment
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Sixty six (66) million years ago, a 6-mile-wide space rock caused a tsunami in the Atlantic Ocean, along with earthquakes and landslides up and down what is now the Americas. A heat pulse baked the Earth, and the Tyrannosaurus rex and its compatriots died out, along with 75% of the planet’s species. There have in fact been 4…
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Warmer temperatures caused by climate change will have the biggest impact on the world’s poorest, most vulnerable people. Research shows that’s already happened over the last several decades. A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science found that in most poor countries, higher temperatures are more than 90% likely to have resulted in decreased economic output, compared…
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I have a fabulous leather collectable Mickey Mouse Wild One jacket and every time I wear it I get offers to buy it. At a studio party the other day I was offered $500 for it. The thing is that I only paid $80.00 for it at a street market. That’s the great thing about…
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30 seconds of business information you should know this morning Read daily, globally by 1,730,000 business leaders and executives The price consumers have been willing to pay for listening to recorded music has never been lower, while the environmental impact of listening to music has never been higher, researchers have found. The economic costs of…