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A new global warming study predicts what current climates will VANISH entirely by the year 2100, replaced by climates that are unknown in today’s world.

Global climate models for the next century forecast the complete disappearance of several existing climates currently found in tropical highlands and regions near the poles, while large areas of the tropics may develop new climates unlike anything seen today.

Geographer Jack Williams compares today’s environmental analysts to 15th-century European mapmakers confronted with the New World, struggling to chart unknown territory. He says, “We want to identify the regions of the world where climate change will result in climates unlike any today.”
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Astronauts took worms into space?now they’ve used them to unlock the secret of longer life. Before, the only advice scientists had for us was to eat a severely calorie-restricted diet (which makes us wonder if living longer would be worth it). Now, thanks to worm research, they have more palatable advice for us.
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Brazil, home of the amazon rain forest, is a major source of soy beans. A major US corporation is exporting soy from Brazil to the United States and Europe, causing land prices there to increase almost 20%. Millions of acres of rain forest have been turned into soy fields. Since we don’t eat that much Chinese food in Europe and the US, who is consuming all this soy? It’s being fed to cattle and other livestock.

In the Independent, Andrew Gumbel writes that “an estimated 20% of the Amazon rainforest has already been destroyed, and about 6,500 square miles more was lost between 2005 and 2006.”
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UPDATE – A Continental Airlines jet touched down at Newark Airport earlier today with 280 passengers aboard, 85 of whom had taken a river cruise in China and appeared to be sick with a flu-like disease. Has bird flu arrived in New Jersey? UPDATE: On CNN.com, Katy Byron quotes Dennis Quinton of the New Jersey Dept. of Homeland Security as saying that there is “nothing to be concerned about. The plane has officially been allowed to enter the US.”
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