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Personal Health – Paying a Price for Loving Red Meat – NYTimes.com
Now a new study of more than 500,000 Americans has provided the best evidence yet that our affinity for red meat has exacted a hefty price on our health and limited our longevity.
The study found that, other things being equal, the men and women who consumed the most red and processed meat were likely to die sooner, especially from one of our two leading killers, heart disease and cancer, than people who consumed much smaller amounts of these foods.
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Arctic CO2 levels growing at an ‘unprecedented rate’, say scientists | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached a record high, according to the latest figures released by an internationally regarded measuring station in the Arctic.Levels of the gas at the Zeppelin research station on Svalbard, northern Norway, last week peaked at over 397 parts per million (ppm), an increase of more than 2.5ppm on 2008. They have since begun to reduce and today stand at 393.7ppm. Prior to the industrial revolution, CO2 levels were around 280ppm.
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New York City-sized ice collapses off Antarctica | Environment | Reuters
An area of an Antarctic ice shelf almost the size of New York City has broken into icebergs this month after the collapse of an ice bridge widely blamed on global warming, a scientist said Tuesday.Humbert told Reuters about 700 sq km (270.3 sq mile) of ice — bigger than Singapore or Bahrain and almost the size of New York City — has broken off the Wilkins this month and shattered into a mass of icebergs.
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We Believe Global Warming is Happening, Just Not Necessarily to Us : TreeHugger
A survey of 2,164 adults by George Mason University and the Yale Project on Climate Change discovered some of the distressing ways in which we humans just can’t see to think very long term: just 32 percent of the Americans surveyed believe global warming will personally harm them “a great deal” or a “moderate amount.” Contrast that with the same group’s opinion on the rest of the animal kingdom: nearly twice the number of respondents, or 62%, believed that plant and animal species would be harmed by climate change. In fact, as the graphic shows, people somewhat ironically believed that everyone around them – their families, communities, and countries – will be more in harm’s way than they themselves. How’s that for optimistic, (perhaps even magical?) thinking?
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Aboriginal Fires Fight Climate Change | Popular Science
Aborigines once commonly used fire-stick farming to establish a patchwork of habitats in different stages of growth, and to continually create new environments for small game that could be hunted. The practice died out as European colonization swept the continent.
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Europe’s biggest onshore wind farm to be ready early | Environment | Reuters
ScottishPower, a unit of Spain’s Iberdrola, said on Monday its Whitelee wind farm near Glasgow is to be completed ahead of schedule in the next few weeks.
ScottishPower Renewables said all of the 140 turbines at the farm would be ready in the near future, raising its capacity to 322 megawatt — enough to power more than 180,000 homes. It would be Europe’s largest onshore wind farm.
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