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	<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; ">Climate Science, Bee Behavior,&nbsp;Lead Battery Recycling,&nbsp;Hydraulic Fracturing, and Other News</span></p>
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			With climate talks taking place in Durban, South Africa this past week, there have been a number of articles on climate science, including the <strong><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/science/earth/record-jump-in-emissions-in-2010-study-finds.html?_r=2&amp;scp=6&amp;sq=global+warming&amp;st=nyt">record rise in carbon emissions</a></strong> in the last year, the <strong><a href="http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/dec2011/2011-12-11-091.html">projections of future climate impacts</a></strong> based on historic records, and&nbsp;<strong><a href="http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/12/9395574-greenland-rose-faster-as-100-billion-tons-of-ice-melted-away">Greenland&#39;s rising land mass</a></strong>.</li>
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			Foresters at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) note that the connections between <strong><a href="http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/dec2011/2011-12-08-02.html">accelerating deforestation and climate change throughout Africa</a></strong> are threatening wildlife and ecosystem resilience on the continent.</li>
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			Researchers at University of California-Riverside and Cornell University have observed <strong><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111208141942.htm">bee behavior that emulates neuropathways</a></strong> in primate decision-making. &nbsp;Bees use &quot;stop signaling&quot; in determining hive location, only instead of firing neurons like in the brain of a monkey, one bee communicates the &quot;stop signal&quot; to the other bee.</li>
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			US Batteries have become a <strong><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/science/earth/recycled-battery-lead-puts-mexicans-in-danger.html?src=me&amp;ref=science">cause for concern in Mexico</a></strong> where they are shipped for recycling, with growing lead contamination in populations around recycling factories. &nbsp;The article&#39;s author follows up with an opinion piece &nbsp;suggesting <strong><a href="http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/fighting-poor-recycling-in-other-countries/?ref=science">how we should recycle batteries</a></strong>.</li>
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			A research student at the University of Rhode Island is chronicling her traumatic and triumphant research experiences while studying&nbsp;<strong><a href="http://scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/01/hoping-for-mammals-but-getting-mostly-ants/">mammal diversity on coffee plantations in Costa Rica</a>&nbsp;</strong>for the NYTimes &quot;Scientist at Work&quot; blog series. &nbsp;The blog series &quot;is the modern version of a field journal, a place for reports on the daily progress of scientific expeditions.&quot;</li>
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			The EPA recently completed a <strong><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/us/epa-says-hydraulic-fracturing-likely-marred-wyoming-water.html?ref=science">three-year study on hydraulic fracturing</a></strong> in Wyoming and its impacts on local water sources, noting chemical contamination not found through natural processes. &nbsp;</li>
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			Researchers demonstate that the the greatest <strong><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111208101251.htm">decrease in African great ape populations</a></strong> comes in areas where local law enforcement has little or no presence, indicating very little protection from poaching. &nbsp;</li>
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