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  <title>Ants, plants and pitchers</title>
  <link>http://www.earthtimes.org/nature/ants-plants-pitchers/2361/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[When these ants are hatched, they have only one role in life, to serve the pitcher plant as cleaners, trappers and underwater divers.]]></description>
  <author>Dave Armstrong</author>
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  <title>Congo Hydroelectric May-be's</title>
  <link>http://www.earthtimes.org/energy/congo-hydroelectric/2360/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The Congo is one of the truly great rivers, but it is remarkable in that it can be navigated throughout, up to the Livingstone Falls and the hydro-electric possibilities will be opened up without undue disturbance. That is, if they are opened up?]]></description>
  <author>Paul Robinson</author>
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  <title>International Day for Biodiversity - 22nd May 2013</title>
  <link>http://www.earthtimes.org/nature/international-day-biodiversity-22-may/2359/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Biodiversity is the term given to the variety of life on Earth and the natural pattern it forms. The biodiversity we see today is the result of millions of years of evolution, initially shaped by natural processes, but in modern times increasingly as a result of human intervention. We are an integral part of the web of biodiversity and we depend on this web, as does every other life form on the planet.]]></description>
  <author>Michael Evans</author>
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  <title>Pangolin Paradise in Vietnam</title>
  <link>http://www.earthtimes.org/conservation/pangolin-paradise-vietnam/2358/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[When Chinese people eat scales of pangolins, they are destroying several species of a unique and precious mammal in the forest food web. Vietnam has begun the slow process of re-education and also getting the animals back into a depleted number of habitats.]]></description>
  <author>Dave Armstrong</author>
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  <title>More research on climate change needed, but too late!</title>
  <link>http://www.earthtimes.org/climate/faulty-research-guys-late/2356/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Certain academics claim that we may not have as severe a rise in temperature as is generally believed. On the other hand, they admit we have no idea what additional factors might be adding to global warming.]]></description>
  <author>Paul Robinson</author>
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  <title>A revelation for solar-powered hydrogen generation</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[The efficiency of photo-electric devices is forever improving. Here, researchers have managed to cut costs remarkably and increase stability, although efficiency still needs to be raised for large scale production.]]></description>
  <author>Paul Robinson</author>
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  <title>Kiwi Conservation Genetics</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[One of he oddest of the exoic birds from that wonderland called New Zealand, this little spotted kiwi has been conserved for over a century.However, because of the lack of diversity within its genes, it may yet face extincton in he future.]]></description>
  <author>Dave Armstrong</author>
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  <title>Tiger, tiger, burning less bright</title>
  <link>http://www.earthtimes.org/conservation/tigers-india-conservation/2351/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The Indian tiger is the largest population remaining today. It is in deep trouble, like many others, because genetic isolation is taking place. One ray of hope is some increase in variation, but this could be a fault due to sampling.]]></description>
  <author>Dave Armstrong</author>
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  <title>International Day of Families - 15th May</title>
  <link>http://www.earthtimes.org/politics/international-day-families-15-may/2350/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Family-related provisions are usually important components of UN policy decisions since they form part of an integrated comprehensive approach to development. UN International Day of Families has been celebrated on 15th May every year since 1995. It can be celebrated in many ways, but whatever the emphasis might be, it is important to remember that the family unit has great value and is something that should be cherished.]]></description>
  <author>Michael Evans</author>
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  <title>Biofuel Progress without Enzymes</title>
  <link>http://www.earthtimes.org/energy/biofuel-progress-enzymes/2346/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The search for cheaper ways to provide fuels to fit into old technology is one way to face up to carbon dioxide emissions. One solution is extracting sugars from cellulose, using enzymes, or better, a new acid catalyst.]]></description>
  <author>Dave Armstrong</author>
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  <title>Skinks and other Squamates - Sorted!</title>
  <link>http://www.earthtimes.org/nature/skinks-squamates/2345/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The snakes and lizards have unrecognised importance in world ecosystems. Often predatory, they fit into food webs in some strange ways too.]]></description>
  <author>Dave Armstrong</author>
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  <title>Thou old black worm, I spit fire on your ashes!</title>
  <link>http://www.earthtimes.org/scitech/language-ancestry-eurasia/2344/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Only 23 words can be found truly as roots to most ancient Eurasian languages. These very old words however have been kept through natural selection because of their use in communication.]]></description>
  <author>Paul Robinson</author>
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  <title>Call it the Acidic Ocean now</title>
  <link>http://www.earthtimes.org/pollution/arctic-ocean-acidification/2343/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[While the warming has been catastrophic, the underlying effects of our treatment of the Arctic have been overlooked. This is a truly enormous chemical change, joining with global warming to destroy communities and possibly ecosystems.]]></description>
  <author>Dave Armstrong</author>
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  <title>3rd May - World Press Freedom Day</title>
  <link>http://www.earthtimes.org/politics/3rd-may-world-press-freedom-day/2340/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Press freeom is vital to democracy. A free, independent and pluralistic media environment, online and offline, must be one in which journalists, media workers, and social media producers can work safely and independently without the fear of being threatened or even killed. It needs to be an environment where attacks, intimidations, harassments, abductions, arbitrary imprisonments, and threats are the exceptions and not the norm.]]></description>
  <author>Michael Evans</author>
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  <title>Neonicotinoid nightmares</title>
  <link>http://www.earthtimes.org/pollution/neonicotinoid-nightmares/2339/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Pesticide use in increasing with a concurrent loss in the abundance of many animals. Here, a Dutch team discover some new correlations between the two.]]></description>
  <author>Dave Armstrong</author>
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