National Geographic
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The National Geographic Society, based in Washington, D.C. in the United States, is one of the world's largest not-for-profit educational and scientific organizations. Its interests include geography and natural science, the promotion of environmental and historical conservation, and the study of world culture and history. Its historical mission is "to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge while promoting the conservation of the world's cultural, historical, and natural resources."[1] Its current President and CEO, John M. Fahey, Jr., says National Geographic's purpose is to ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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nonprofit_organization | Managers: John M. Fahey
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"Surreal" Vegetarian Spider Found -- A First
A tropical jumping spider that eats mostly plant buds has been identified, a new study says--making it the only known vegetarian out of some 40,000 spider species. A tropical ...Posted by Tyler Kane -
Next Ice Age Delayed by Global Warming, Study Says
The North Pole is warmer now than it has been in the past 2,000 years, a trend that is holding off the next ice age, according to the most extensive study yet on Arctic ... -
CO2 Levels Highest in Two Million Years
By studying chemicals in long-dead, single-celled plankton called foraminifera, though, the team behind the new study was able to extend the climate record back 2.1 million yearsPosted by Dwight Rousu -
Amphibian Loss: The Vanishing
Amphibians are among the groups hardest hit by today's many strikes against wildlife. As many as half of all species are under threat. Hundreds are sliding toward extinction, ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Canadian Oil Sands
Nowhere on Earth is more earth being moved these days than in the Athabasca Valley. To extract each barrel of oil from a surface mine, the industry must first cut down the ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Alien-like Squid With "Elbows" Filmed at Drilling Site
mile and a half (two and a half kilometers) underwater, a remote control submersible's camera has captured an eerie surprise: an alien-like, long-armed, and—strangest of ...Posted by Glenn LaBauve -
India's Highway
Much as the U.S. interstate highway system mobilized American society and grooved the postwar economy, India hopes the Golden Quadrilateral will push the country's economic ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Earth: The Biography - Atmosphere
(VIDEO) The atmosphere is Earth's protective layer, cloaking us in a warm, oxygen-rich embrace and shielding us from the cold hostility of space. It acts as a natural ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Penguin Chicks Frozen by Global Warming?
The freezing of chicks is just one example of how human activity is endangering about two thirds of all penguin species, according to a new paper based on decades of research ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Yellow River
The proliferation of factories, farms, and cities--all products of China's spectacular economic boomis sucking the Yellow River dry. What water remains is being poisoned. From ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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32 New Planets Found Outside Our Solar System
Astronomers have added 32 new planets to the list of planets found orbiting stars outside our solar system. The discoveries, announced today at a press briefing in Portugal, ...via Google News -
Googling Fights Dementia, Study Suggests
Using search engines may help stave off dementia and memory loss, a new brain-scan study suggests. Scientists found that middle-aged and older adults with little Internet ...Posted by Cynthia Gilbert -
Giant, Mucus-Like Sea Blobs on the Rise, Pose Danger
Beware of the blob—this time, it's for real. As sea temperatures have risen in recent decades, enormous sheets of a mucus-like material have begun forming more often, oozing ... -
Killer Whales Strain to "Talk" Over Ship Noise?
Killer whales raise their voices to be heard over boat noise, and the effort may be wearing the whales out as they try to find food amid dwindling numbers of salmon, new ... -
Pollution Can Change Your DNA in 3 Days, Study Suggests
Breathing in polluted air may wreak havoc on our DNA, reprogramming genes in as few as three days and causing increased rates of cancer and other diseases. So says a new ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Earth Day Facts: When It Is, How It Began, What to Do
From not-so-humble beginnings in 1970, when 20 million participated across the U.S., Earth Day has grown into a global tradition, with a billion expected to take part in 2009. ...Posted by Kristin Gorski -
Energy Conservation
We decided to try an experiment. For one month we tracked our personal emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) as if we were counting calories. We wanted to see how much we could ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Extinction: What Can We Do?
Most of us don’t think about extinctions when we think of Hawaii. But for conservation biologist Stuart Pimm that’s the first image that enters his mind. Since 1978 he’s ...Posted by Doug Greer -
Amphibian Extinctions: Is Global Warming Off the Hook?
But J. Alan Pounds, resident scientist at Costa Rica's Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve and an author of previous research on the topic, maintains climate change is a key ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Global Warming Forces Innovative Sea Turtle Protection
Scientists here and elsewhere are increasingly finding they have no choice but to intervene as a warming Earth, changing ocean conditions, and coastal development threaten to ...Posted by Fabrice Florin
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