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A recent study published in Environmental Science & Technology shows the linkage between the illegal production of coca and the continuing destruction of Colombia's rainforest. New plots of coca between 2002 and 2007 accounted for the direct destruction of 890 square kilometers of rainforest. That's roughly 6 percent of total rainforest lost in that period, which totaled to 14,000 square kilometers, or an area slightly larger than Jamaica.

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Judge rules against opponents of taxpayer-funded research using stem cells

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Study shows drug that costs $50 works as well as one costing $2,000 a month

Tall, obese men are more than five times more likely to develop dangerous blood clots, new research shows

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The world’s most advanced cosmic-ray detector took 16 years and $2 billion to build, and not long ago it looked as though it would wind up mothballed in some warehouse.

Most dog and cat owners will happily describe their pet's disposition down to the smallest, human-like detail. But how much of that is over-reaching anthropomorphizing and how much is an individual animal's actual "personality" shining through?

The FDA approved biotech drug Benlysta to treat lupus, the first new treatment for the autoimmune disease in 50 years.

The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change by Philip W. Conkling, Richard Alley, Wallace Broecker and George Denton.

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Twenty-five years after the tragic runaway fission and fire at Chernobyl , tons of concrete shield workers and visitors from the dangerously radioactive puddle of melted fuel that lurks in the basement of the building housing reactor No. 4. Similarly, more than 30 years after the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, concrete shaved 2.5 centimeters deep guards a hollow reactor vessel, its partially melted down fuel rods having been taken out over the course of a decade and shipped to Idaho National Laboratory (INL) for study