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LiveScience.com - Cat-sized reptiles once roamed what is now the icebox of Antarctica, snuggling up in burrows and peeping above ground to snag plant roots and insects.

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Former Vice President Al Gore’s new status as a Nobel Peace Prize winner is encouraging some of his political supporters in the United States to urge him to run for president next year. But as VOA National correspondent Jim Malone reports from Washington, most political experts doubt Gore will make a run for the [...]

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People around the world Sunday described seeing the first total lunar eclipse in more than three years.
The eclipse was visible Saturday evening from Europe, Africa, South America and the Eastern United States and Canada, the BBC reported.
At its height, the eclipsed moon looked coppery-red.
Robin Scagell of the Society for Popular Astronomy said the lunar show [...]

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The double Oscar win for “An Inconvenient Truth,” former Vice President Al Gore’s expanded slide-show on global warming, could spur grassroots support for the fight against climate change, environmental advocates said on Monday.That’s because a movie, especially one that many Americans have seen on home video, takes the issue beyond the realm of distant policymakers [...]

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Today’s release of a widely anticipated international report on global warming coincides with a growing clamor within the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prevent the potentially devastating consequences of global climate change.
“There’s more interest in this now than at any time in the last 20 years,” says Ronald Prinn, TEPCO Professor [...]

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London - The end of the world brought about by nuclear war is now just five minutes away, according to the latest ‘Doomsday Clock’ time check, announced Wednesday.
Keepers of the clock, set up in 1947 to show how close humanity is to wiping itself out, moved the minute hand two minutes forward from seven towards [...]

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It is the first time the US has made a direct link between global warming and the threat to a species.
President George Bush has steadfastly refused to back mandatory controls of emissions of carbon dioxide - believed the main gas behind global warming.
There are 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears across the globe, [...]

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