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By Dana Ford In the bone-dry desert of Peru’s southern coast, time seems to stand still. For more than a thousand years, the famous Nazca lines, giant geometric shapes and animal figures etched in the desert, have survived — virtually unchanged — delighting and baffling both researchers and tourists [...] As a view out of your home it’s hard to match — a constantly changing vista of icebergs just outside the British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera research station. Every day the winds and tides on the Antarctic Peninsula shift them around — some break up abruptly with a loud splash while many simply slowly grind into ice cubes against the shore and disappear. [...] 2009 may not be such a green year in America after all. According to a new poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, environmental protection has fallen off sharply as a priority issue among Americans. You can see the whole survey here. “Of the 20 issues people were asked to rate in [...] |
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