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Israeli Turtle Gets Skateboard to Replace Legs

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Posted by geri   
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Officials in a Jerusalem zoo have fitted a 55-pound spurred tortoise with a custom skateboard to overcome paralysis of her hind legs. The 10-year-old  turtle was unable to move herself forward with her front legs alone. So the zoo's staff built her a metal board with two wheels that can be strapped to her shell.
 

Scientists Closer to Discovery of Invisibilty Cloak

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Posted by Laura Schier   
Thursday, 14 August 2008
Harry Potter doesn't need science when he has magic cloaks. Researchers, however, need Metamaterials - mixtures of metal and circuit board materials such as ceramic, Teflon or fiber composite - to bend visible light around objects avoiding the reflections or shadows, making them essentially invisible. (MSNBC reports on this scientific advancement)
 

Humpback and Two Other Whale Species on Road to Recovery

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Posted by geri   
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
humpbackjpg.jpgThree whale species, the humpback, minke and southern right, are recovering from the threat of extinction according to a new study released by the world's largest conservation network. Thanks to curbs on hunts since the 1980s, the status of both the southern right and humpback population has been lowered from Vulnerable to Least Concern.
Read more... [Humpback and Two Other Whale Species on Road to Recovery]
 

Ethical Coffee Helps Save Peruvian Rainforest

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Posted by geri   
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
coffee_immature.jpgOnce bleak and lifeless places degraded by years of high-impact farming, Peruvian coffee farms are being transformed by a growing trend for certification schemes offering ethical and environmental guarantees to western coffee drinkers.
Read more... [Ethical Coffee Helps Save Peruvian Rainforest]
 

Meet South Africa’s Dr. Dolittle

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Posted by stevegh   
Thursday, 07 August 2008
parrots.jpgCheetahs threatening the livestock? Call Brian. A crocodile attacking people? Brian will take it – the way he takes everything – to his Moholoholo Wildlife Rehab Centre for injured and endangered animals. He is the answer to all variety of animal problems that vex humans in the scrubby lowlands of eastern South Africa. (Christian Science Monitor)

(Photo by Elan Sun Star)
 
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