Songs for an Overheated Planet
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At Live Earth, a planetwide series of concerts, the highest ranks of the pop aristocracy will use their fame to persuade a global audience that climate change is not only an urgent problem but one they can help solve.
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Scientists have long believed that the planet is surrounded by a radiation belt. Now it's a confirmed fact. Compiled by Tony Long.
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Recent analyses of ESAÃ¢ÂÂs Mars Express data reveal that concentrations of water vapour and methane in the atmosphere of Mars significantly overlap. This result provides important new hints to evaluate the hypothesis of present life on the Red Planet.
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Billionaire Richard Branson hopes to entice researchers to seek methods to contain climate damage. By the Associated Press.
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Ice caps are melting on both Earth and Mars. According to one researcher's controversial theory, this suggests that global warming has nothing to do with humankind.
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Subtle effects of global warming, silk stockings for spiders, springtime on Uranus and more.
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If the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is right, our planet is heading for some big upheavals. By 2100, they predict, global sea levels will have risen by 9cm to 88cm, and average temperatures will be about 1.5 to 5.5C higher than now.
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This month's Playlist ranges from sci-fi TV remakes to classic books in bite-size bits.
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Compiled by PAUL MONTELLA Sept. 19
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Weekly unique recordings by artists you love put Daytrotter on the short list of good sonic sites. By Eric Steuer from Wired magazine. Plus: Music reviews.
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Make hot cocoa. Bundle up. Tell your friends: the best meteor shower of 2004 is about to peak on a long cold December night. It&#39;s the Geminids.
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An airboat speeding across the sawgrass and mud. A ringing in the ears when the engine was cut. Moaning. Screams for help. Desperate gasps at the water's surface. Helicopters in the distance. Christmas carols.
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Tycho:  It took three separate discs and two consoles to finally work out the Goddamn kinks, but we were able to play almost the entire Eternal Sonata demo.  Almost!  I wasn't aware people were still boiling discs, presumably in black iron cauldrons where carrots bob, but I don't want to live a life where boiling discs is normal.
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Dotted around the globe are shadowy, short-range transmitters beaming strange radio messages across the planet. The messages are indecipherable, and often unlistenable. Nonetheless, they have their fans. By Jason Walsh.
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Writing a song that touches the hearts of millions is hard enough.
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These are no Star Trek-style vacation spots: The waterless worlds bake at up to 1,500 degrees, with winds whipping at up to 2,000 mph. By the Associated Press.
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It might be wise to know our geoengineering options just in case climate change comes early. In Beyond the Beyond.