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India Urges West To Stop Eating Beef
India’s Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh, on Thursday called on the rest of the world to avoid eating beef in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions....



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Sea of the Viennese. Lake Neusiedl, straddling the Austrian–Hungarian border, is featured in this satellite image, acquired by SPOT-4 on 9 October 2006. The largest steppe lake in Central Europe, Neusiedl covers an area...
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COBE Satellite Marks 20th Anniversary. NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite rocketed into Earth orbit on Nov. 18, 1989, and quickly revolutionized our understanding of the early cosmos. Developed and built at Goddard Space Fl...




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