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		<title>Global warming &#8216;pause&#8217; gives ammo to skeptics&#8217; argument</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A slowdown in warming that has provided fuel for climate skeptics is one of the thorniest issues in a report to be issued by U.N. experts on Friday. Over the past 15 years, the world&#8217;s average surface temperature rose far slower than many climate models have predicted. According to projections, global warming should go in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists tracing ancestry of India&#8217;s large mammals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gayathri Vaidyanathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 120 million years ago, the supercontinent of Gondwana broke into a jigsaw puzzle of continents and isles in the Southern Hemisphere. One of those was a giant island forming what we now call India. About 55 million years later, an asteroid, perhaps, or a comet, hit Earth, and the dinosaurs died out. Mammals seized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shark attacks on humans are rare but not unheard of</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Eilperin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With beach season in full swing, the question inevitably arises: What are the chances of getting attacked by a shark? In a phrase: extraordinarily low &#8212; though not nonexistent. It is higher in certain parts of the U.S. (Florida tops the list) than in others, and in some places (off Cape Cod) legendary great whites [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Europe floods raise warming fears</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Less than three months after being battered by snow and ice, Central Europe now finds itself fighting floods — and some scientists are pointing the finger at human interference with the climate system. Leading the charge is the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) near Berlin, which says a low-pressure system that dumped the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alaska&#8217;s Bristol Bay mine: Ground zero for the next big environmental fight?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Eilperin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dispute over a proposed copper and gold mine near Alaska&#8217;s Bristol Bay may be one of the most important environmental decisions of President Barack Obama&#8217;s second term &#8212; yet few are even aware that the fight is happening. At issue is a proposed mining operation in a remote area that is home to several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perilous U.S.-China games</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Rafferty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING &#8212; Beijing is increasingly playing hardball on every issue that brings it into contact and potential conflict with the rest of the world: democracy in Hong Kong; U.S. arms sales to Taiwan; the visit of the Dalai Lama to the White House; sanctions against Iran; the value of the renminbi; the sickly dollar; human [...]]]></description>
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