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Vicious Cycle: Drought Threatens Amazon Forest, Speeds Global Warming : TreeHugger

Fewer Trees = More Warming = Fewer Trees A 30-year study (!) involving 68 scientists from 13 countries just published in the prestigious journal Science reports bad news: the world's largest tropical rain forest is more sensitive to drought

Technology Review: TR10: HashCache

Vivek Pai's new method for storing Web content could make Internet access more affordable around the world.

Harvard’s masters of the apocalypse - Times Online

If Robespierre were to ascend from hell and seek out today’s guillotine
fodder, he might start with a list of those with three incriminating
initials beside their names: MBA.

Op-Ed Contributor - For Sale - The $100 House - NYTimes.com

Filling Detroit’s desolate neighborhoods with starving artists.

Generation OMG - NYTimes.com

What will become of the youth shaped by what some are already calling the Great Recession?

Wirth's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Seven Evolutionary Leftovers in the Human Body

Wings on a flightless bird, eyes on a blind fish, and sexual organs on a flower that reproduces asexually—the casual observer might ask, what’s the...

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Population: The elephant in the room
Environmentalists must accept that uncontrolled population growth threatens to undermine efforts to save the planet.

The History of US Government Corporate Bailouts | Financial Infographics

Get the breakdown on who the United States has bailed out, for how much, and what happened, in this infographic:

“We Blew Her to Pieces” | Dahr Jamail - Independent Reporting from Iraq and the Middle East [via claudio]

Aside from the Iraqi people, nobody knows what the U.S. military is doing in Iraq better than the soldiers themselves. A new book

Obama Lifts Bush’s Strict Limits on Stem Cell Research - NYTimes.com

In a ceremony at the White House, President Obama pledged that his administration will “make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology.”

Well - Unlocking the Secrets of Gray Hair - NYTimes.com

Is a graying hairline a sign of age, stress or something else?

Coral reefs may start dissolving when atmospheric CO2 doubles

Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the resulting effects on ocean water are making it increasingly difficult for coral reefs to grow, say scientists. A study to be published online March 13, 2009 in Geophysical Research Letters by researchers at the Carnegie Institution and the Hebrew University ...