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I just got an email from a friend of a friend who is spending three months in Argentina. He and his wife were able to get a substantial discount on two berths on an Antarctica-bound ship. You can use their technique to get a discount too. The trick is that you have to actually go to the Argentinian city of Ushuaia, the southernmost in the world, which is where those ships depart from, and then...

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Warning: the following site can be overwhelming, with its hundreds (!) of new articles compiled daily. It can be depressing, with the coverage it frequently features of planetary warming, human-caused mass extinctions, emerging diseases, contaminated drinking water, et cetera. And it can be addicting. Don't say I didn't warn you. Environmental Health News

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If I had skinned that bee, I could have made a pair of bumblebee-fuzz mittens. Seriously. It was huge. Via the New York Times (months ago, but I just learned about this and it's freaking me out): Millions of bees are disappearing all over the US and nobody knows why. This is threatening, among other things, our ability to produce food. 

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Greenland Thaws - farmers rejoice! The upsides of global warming?

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You have got to see this. The Civil Society Institute has unveiled www.CapeCodFlooding.org, an interactive website that shows the projected impact on Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard of a potential one-meter ocean level rise due to global warming. The Flash-based web map includes close-up coastal flooding details for Hyannis, Truro and a total of four points on Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. The mapping is based on the latest available and most detailed elevation information from MassGIS (Massachusetts Office...

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Last night I watched 28 Days Later, an uber-creepy zombie flick. (Warning: spoilers ahead.) Some of the most striking images in the movie are in the opening minutes, when Jim, the protagonist, wakes from a coma and discovers that the hospital is deserted. He walks out into the streets of London and they are empty. If you've ever been to London, you know this is never the case, especially in the London Bridge area. How did...

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