Science
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You may have read the article in the New Republic last month about how 300,000 ancient books and manuscripts in the libraries of Timbuktu were evacuated in secret to protect them from Ansar Dine, an Al Qaeda cell. The manuscripts not only survived the burning of the Timbuktu library, but were smuggled in footlockers all…
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Massive tsunamis. Sinking cities. Mass hunger, limited food, uninhabitable climates and the devastation of the earth’s most productive biomes. These are what Mark Lynas predicts for an earth that is just an average of 6 degrees Celsius warmer, in his new book Six Degrees. What is so scary is that, according to the UN Intergovernmental…
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