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We recently reported on hundreds of dead birds being found on the ground, and even hanging from the trees, in Australia and various cities in the US. Now even more of them are showing up in Australia.

Perthnow.com reports that yet another 200 dead birds have been found in Australia, making the number of mysterious bird deaths close to 4,000. Autopsies of the birds have ruled out disease and authorities are waiting for further autopsy results, in order to determine whether pesticides or poisons are responsible.

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We’ve been warned that terrible things may happen in the future, but here at unknowncountry.com, we dwell on the good things too, because based on the past, we predict an extraordinary future ahead.
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There is very little snow in the mountains, all over the world. In the US, Alaska seems to be the first victim of global warming. How is climate change going to affect where the weather where YOU live?

The weather is all mixed up: it?s snowing in California and there are ice storms in Texas, but there will won?t be much ice skating in the Northeast and Midwest, since the lakes aren?t freezing.

An international team of climatologists has made a map that shows how global warming will change the climate in different parts of the world as the 21st century progresses. In New Scientist, Kate Ravilious quotes Mich?le B

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In the January 19 edition of the Wall Street Journal, Sharon Begley, author of Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Power to Transform Ourselves, describes how the Dalai Lama is working with neurologists to try to answer the question of how the mind shapes the brain.

Neurologists know that the our mental experiences are created by chemical and electrical changes in the brain?but can our mental experiences, in turn, change the chemical and electrical signals inside the brain? Zen Buddhist meditation says this is the case, but Western science hasn’t proved it yet. Begley’s book discusses this topic.
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Joe Kovacs reports in WorldNetDaily.com that Colonel Brian Fields has photographed colorful, hovering lights in Arkansas that fit the description of the famous Phoenix Lights that were seen a decade ago in Arizona. Kovacs quotes Fields, who is retired from the Air Force, as saying, “I believe these lights were not of this world, and I feel a duty and responsibility to come forward. I have no idea what they were.”

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