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Japan's Whaling in Antarctica

Japanese whalers kill a whale in Antarctica; Credit: Australian Customs and Border Protection The Institute of Cetacean Research, sounds like a benign pro-whale-protection research outfit, but the inapt name is...

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South African Frackers

Image: South Africa's Potential Frackers; Sources: PASA (2010), USGS (2000) & ARI In South Africa, the main fracking contender is Sasol. Sasol commenced as an apartheid state fossil-fuel coal to...

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Neander Meanderings

The Neanderthals are claimed to have produced some of the great cave art using red ochre and other pigments; Courtesy of Shutterstock When our closest dead relatives, assembled, about 60...

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Spectacular New Image of the Omega Nebula

This image of the Omega Nebula (Messier 17), captured by ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), is one of the sharpest of this object ever taken from the ground. It shows...

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