Global Collapse, Human Survival & the Planet’s Boundaries

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A new study by nearly 30 of the world’s best scientists concludes that we have crossed three of the world’s nine thresholds. It is not only about climate change.

8-Year-Old and Grandma Caught Poaching Tigers

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A shocking discovery by forest guards in the Valmikinagar Tiger Reserve exposes a family business built on killing tigers. Learning from grandma is usually a good thing. But not this time: An eight-year-old boy and his grandmother were arrested after laying a steel trap to kill a tiger. The pair was caught adjacent to the [...]

Earth Microbes to be Sent to Mars Moon

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Phobos– the largest and innermost moon of Mars. Note the large crater shown in the lower right, known as ‘Sickney’. The proposed experiment is called LIFE -Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment–and will be placed aboard Phobos-Grunt, a joint Russian-American mission to Phobos, the largest (and innermost) of Mars’s two moons (the smaller being Deimos). If all [...]

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New Species of Ghostshark

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A new species of ghostsharks, a relative of sharks, was recently named. Ghostsharks (also called chimaeras, ratfish or rabbitfish) are some of the oldest fish alive today. The name of the newly identified but ancient species is Eastern Pacific black ghostshark.

Scaredy Cat: Timid Tiger Stuck on Tower

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A ferocious two-year-old Bengal tiger, Tanvir, spent over 24 hours on a 15-foot activity tower at the Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm in Bristol.