Scientists were seeking to uncover long-buried lake deep beneath ice sheet.

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Russian scientists searching for lake buried in ice for tens of millions of years fail to respond to US colleagues

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The wayward birds could not be persuaded to follow a pilot flying an ultralight plane.

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High to very high levels of air pollution in the Newry area have been detected, the Department of Environment says.

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The eruption of some of the largest volcanoes on the planet could be predicted decades before the event, research suggests.

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About 200 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees tell the BBC that they are enduring miserable conditions in the West African state of Togo.

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The US population is wealthier, older, less fertile and more influenced by immigration than the other countries projected to experience major population growth, so why is the U.S. population is expected to grow much more than other wealthy countries’

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Wales is and #34;on the right path and #34; towards tackling climate change but the Welsh government needs to do more to target emissions, according to the Climate Change Commission for Wales.

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A mysterious, centuries-long cool spell, dubbed the Little Ice Age, appears to have been caused by a series of volcanic eruptions and sustained by sea ice, a new study indicates.

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The earth beneath our feet plays an important role in carbon storage – a key factor in climate change – and new research shows that in times of drought some types of soil perform better than others.

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IRIN (Nairobi)-Petty traders from Uganda, South Sudan and #39;s largest trading partner, crowd into Konyo Konyo market in Juba selling used clothes, vegetables and household wares. Lacking economic prospects at home, they come in the hope of finding better opportunities in Juba and #39;s booming post-war economy.

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The Japanese population is expected to shrink by one third in the next half century, a government report says.

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Andy Thomson bridged a gap of 17 years to win the Fred Olsen Cruise Lines world indoor singles title for the third time at Potters Leisure Resort in Hopton-on-Sea.

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Climate change, has been held responsible for many ills of now and the future. But did you know that climate change creates more child abusers and child rapists’..

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Send in your best travel photographs for the chance to win an overall prize of a fantastic $30,000 trip to Antarctica, plus monthly prizes The Been there photo competition has always been a fantastic way to showcase great amateur travel photography from our readers. For 2012 we have teamed up with Quark Expeditions to offer a fantastic trip of a lifetime to the Antarctic Peninsula worth over $30 …

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The worldwide public realises there is something deeply wrong with today and #39;s world economic system When Karl Marx called for the workers of the world to unite, it seems unlikely he had in mind an iPhone boycott. But suggestions for just such a campaign in the US have thrown the spotlight on possible abuses at firms producing goods for hi-tech giant Apple, urging the public to think again about …

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The Andes-Amazon basin of Peru and Bolivia is one of the most biologically rich and rapidly changing areas of the world. A new study has used information collected over the last 100 years by explorers and from satellite images which reveals detailed patterns of species and ecosystems that occur only in this region. Worryingly, the study also finds that many of these unique species and ecosystems …

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A gargantuan report reveals expected global warming impacts and – inadvertantly – a hidden but fundamental injustice If you thought global warming would bring little more to the British Isles than the inviting prospect of passing long, hot summers sipping chilled English wine, then the gargantuan catalogue of climate change impacts revealed on Thursday flattens that myth. It also reveals …

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WASHINGTON — On a single day this past fall, the United States government held 13,185 people in immigration detention who had not been convicted of a crime, with no plans to charge them with one, according to information The Huffington Post obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. Instead, at a cost of roughly 2 million taxpayer dollars per day, the innocent men and women were …

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A magnitude 5.3 magnitude earthquake is felt in Turin and Milan, the second to hit northern Italy in a week, but there are no reports of damage.

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Scientists have shown that insect nutrition and agricultural land management practices may partially explain modern day locust outbreaks.

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Residents living in Donegal in the Irish Republic are woken by a minor earthquake in the early hours of Thursday morning.

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Nearest McDonalds is… oh, there and #39;s an earthquake comi-… aaaah Google tried to claw back the moral high ground on Wednesday by adding a new emergency alert service to its popular mapping tool, designed to give the public up-to-the-minute information on serious weather, public safety and earthquake-related events.…

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No matter how hard Mitt Romney tries to fit a square peg into a round hole, his version of Republicanism no longer appears to represent the majority of the party.

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ISS (Tshwane/Pretoria)-In 2008, for the first time in human history, the number of people living in urban areas outstripped the rural population; however, the same will not occur in Africa until nearly 2050. Even so, Africa and #39;s cities are urbanising at a profound rate, reaching 40% in 2012, up from 19% in 1960.

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WASHINGTON — When President Obama and #39;s immigration policy staffers gathered to help pen the State of the Union Address passage dedicated to their issue, they didn and #39;t have much to work with. Comprehensive immigration reform never came close, and the Dream Act failed. What and #39;s a speechwriter to do’

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Expedition collected data on Hawaiian volcano Express-News Copyright 2012 Express-News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 07:07 p.m., Friday, January 13, 2012 A stalwart crew of explorers and scientists experienced hurricane-force winds, icy temperatures and snow blindness 170 years ago during a three week stay atop Earth and #39;s …

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Earth and #39;s population broke 7 billion late last year because we and #39;ve become amazingly proficient at raising food. But our distribution is far from perfect

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Prof. Alan Strahler and #39;s current work involves a ground-based LiDAR instrument called ECHIDNA, after the spiky Australian egg-laying mammal.

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The environment has been largely ignored, but that may change as Republican candidates head to Florida.

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Briton Felicity Aston has become the first woman to cross Antarctica alone.

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Akomfrah and #39;s Handsworth Songs attracted a huge audience when shown in the wake of last summer and #39;s riots. His new film, The Nine Muses, uses Homer to explore mass migration to Britain John Akomfrah, widely recognised as one of Britain and #39;s most expansive and intellectually rewarding film-makers, has never been afraid of a battle. Back in the 1970s, when he was barely out of his teens, he tried to screen …

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Thousands of people have formed a human chain up one of the Guatemala and #39;s volcanoes to draw attention to the country and #39;s high rates of domestic violence.

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Thousands of Guatemalans climb an extinct volcano in a protest against domestic violence in the country, which has one of the highest murder rates in the world.

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Six months on, bitter immigration debate bubbles under

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Biodiversity is declining rapidly throughout the world. The challenges of conserving the world and #39;s species are perhaps even larger than mitigating the negative effects of global climate change, experts say.

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A 6.2-magnitude earthquake off the coast of southern Mexico is felt around the region, from regional capital Tuxtla Gutierrez to San Salvador.

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China and #39;s size and its centralized governance have enabled the creation of a parallel Internet universe connected to and separate from the one outside. China is pursuing a distinctive response to the Internet.

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An earthquake of moderate strength caused damage and injured 100 people in the city of Neyshabour in the northeast part of Iran Thursday afternoon, Iran and #39;s state TV reported.

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It and #39;s a practice more closely associated with third world countries, but in bleak times in Homewood, Illinois, 30 people were buried in a mass grave on Wednesday.

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TOKYO– The first look inside one of Japan and #39;s tsunami-hit nuclear reactors showed radiation, steam and rusty metal surfaces scarred by 10 months and #39; exposure to high temperatures and humidity.

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I will ski a total of 2,200 kilometers (1,300 miles), then return to Ecuador and finally travel back to Antarctica by sailboat in March 2012, completing the Pole2Pole expedition within one year of its start.

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Researchers found a complete skull of the predator after spotting a bare patch of soil in southern Brazil on Google Maps, then flying over to investigate. It lived 265 million years ago.

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China’s urban population surpassed the number of people living in the countryside last year for the first time in the nation’s more than 5,000 years of history.

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A proposal to slow global warming would help people in poor countries now, instead of mainly benefiting their descendants.

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$3.6bn handed out to underpaid iMakers Apple has for the first time released a complete list of its suppliers [PDF] , publishing the names of 156 companies who make the parts for everything from Macbook screens to iPad covers.…

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Scientists have finished a global empirical study that suggests that preservation of plant biodiversity is crucial to buffer negative effects of climate change and desertification in drylands.

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Almost nine years after the civil war in Darfur, Western Sudan, BBC and #39;s David Loyn reports on how repercussions are still felt by refugees who were forced to flee to camps in neighbouring Chad.

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BuaNews (Tshwane)-The Presidency has announced that the Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Enoch Godongwana, has resigned from his position to pursue personal interests.

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allAfrica.com (Washington, DC)-Twenty years after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the promise of sustainable development will be revisited again at the 2012 Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development next June.

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