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Estel Grace Masangkay is a freelance creative writer who enjoys outdoor trips and activities in natural settings. She is passionate about animal welfare and environment conservation. Follow Me @Em23me.

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Nano-film Packaging for Fruits

Monday, June 4, 2012
Raw Mangoes

A new type of nano-film packaging for fresh produce is being tested to lengthen shelf-life and cut down post-harvest losses, SciDev reports. Researchers from Tamil Nadu Agriculture University…

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Collapse of Ancient Indus Civilization Due to Climate Change, New Study Says

Friday, June 1, 2012
Indus River

The ancient Harappan civilization, also known as the greatIndus civilization, is one of the most mysterious in history. It is the largest ancient civilization, spreading over 1, 200,…

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Asian Brown Cloud Casts Pall on Regional and Global Climate

Wednesday, May 30, 2012
pollution cloud JT1

Only this April were people almost driven to panic by sight of what appeared to be a green cloud hanging over Moscow, ominously in time for the anniversary…

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SeaGrass Store More Carbon than Forests

Tuesday, May 29, 2012
SeaGrass Meadow

An article featured in the journal Nature GeoScience shows that seagrass stores up to 225,000 carbon per square mile, more than twice what terrestrial forests can store. According…

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2012 Top Ten New Species List Highlights Need to Protect Biodiversity

Sunday, May 27, 2012
bee2

May 23, 2012 marked the 305th birth anniversary of Carl Linnaeus, known Swedish botanist and recognized as the father of modern taxonomy. To mark the event the International Institute…

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Ecological Footprint and the Earth’s Biocapacity

Saturday, May 26, 2012
Components of Ecological Footprint

We are in the middle of an ecological overshoot situation. This is the sobering key finding of the World Wildlife Fund Living Planet Report 2012, released earlier this…

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Addressing the Issue of Increasing Stormwater Levels

Thursday, May 24, 2012
bioswale

Star Tribune reports of inter-community efforts to address the challenge of increasing stormwater levels brought about by the warmer climate. WET (Weather-Extreme Trends) is a study project coordinated…

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Protecting Ecological Chains

Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Protecting Ecological Chains

The news of the discovery of one of the longest ecological interaction chains ever, broke headlines last week. The study, published in Scientific Reports, documented how replacement of…

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Tree Warden to be Buried in “Herbie” Tree Casket

Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Elm Tree

Huffington Post Green reports that 103-year-old Frank Knight, Herbie’s famous Tree Warden, died this Monday. Knight was known as Yarmouth’s Tree Warden who fought to save Herbie, the…

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WWF Living Planet Report 2012

Monday, May 21, 2012
Earth

WWF published its biennial Living Planet Report 2012 this week in the WWF site. It is simple, engaging, and reader friendly without compromising the hard facts of the…

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