What will they look like in 2012, and AFTERWARDS? – What will the women of the future look like? If you believe fashion magazines, they’ll all be slim and boyish, but scientists think that tomorrow’s females are likely to be slightly shorter and plumper, have healthier hearts and be able to reproduce for a longer period of time. Researchers predict these changes based on new proof that humans are still evolving.

Recent medical advances mean that many people who once would have died young now live to old age. This has led to the theory that natural selection no longer affects humans (that we have stopped evolving).
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Can we find one that works before it’s too late? – If we can’t burn gas maybe we can burn grass. But if we get that grass from our prairies, we may be destroying some of our wildlife. Spraying DDT almost caused a silent spring. Will ethanol do the same thing?

The unintended consequence of crop-based biofuels may be the loss of wildlife habitat, particularly that of the birds who call this country’s grasslands home. This is not happening because we’re turning grass into gas, it’s because we are clearing so much prairie in order to plant more corn.
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And how to predict it – There are strange things going on in the sky, but even stranger things are happening right here on Earth: It turns out that recent earthquakes, even major ones, may actually be aftershocks from quakes that occurred HUNDREDS of years ago. This is good news for some earthquake-prone areas in California and bad news for others. But it does help us predict when bad things may happen again in the future.
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An innovative proposal by the Ecuadorian government would protect an untouched, oil rich region of Amazon rainforest and save a large area of pristine Amazon rainforest for the future, by leaving untouched nearly one billion barrels of oil that lies beneath the surface of the Yasuni National Park in Ecuador. Under the initiative, the government would sell certificates linked to the value of the unreleased carbon to provide alternative revenue to that which would come from exploiting the oil reserves.
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