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Australia is switching from beef to save the climate – Switching from beef to kangaroo burgers could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Australia, since the methane produced by cow flatulence is one of the main causes of climate change.

One problem is that while Australian native foods are a hit with international tourists, locals are far less enthused about eating kangaroo, emu and crocodile meat. When it comes to kangaroo burgers, BBC News quotes researcher George Wilson as saying, “It tastes excellent, not unlike venison?only a different flavor.” At least he didn?t claim it tastes like chicken!

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An advantage nobody ELSE tells you about! – When the mainstream media talks about the winners of the Olympic swim trials, they don’t mention that some of the contestants have an extra advantage. The big controversy at this year?s Olympics is the high tech suits being worn by some swimmers. This echoes the concern about the high-performance drugs being taken by some athletes. While the drugs are illegal, the high tech swimsuits (so far) are not.
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We’ve long known that air pollution is a major problem in China, but now that all eyes are on Beijing, due to the Olympics, the problem is becoming embarrassingly obvious.

Chinese officials have compelled reductions in industrial activity by as much as 30% and cuts in automobile use by half to safeguard the health of competing athletes immediately before and during the games, but they may not have much luck if the weather doesn’t cooperate, since pollution levels in Beijing depend on whether prevailing winds are blowing in from the heavily industrialized provinces to the south or from the less populated north.
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We’re about to discover life on Mars?now astronomers think there may be life on a moon of Jupiter!

With average temperatures of minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit, an almost nonexistent atmosphere and a complex web of cracks in a layer of ice encompassing the entire surface, the environment on Jupiter?s moon Europa is about as alien as they come. So are the enormous forces behind the surface display, namely an ocean beneath the ice nine times deeper than Earth?s deepest ocean trench and gravitational affects from a planet 318 times the mass of Earth.
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