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		<title>Plastiki Arrives!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After 130 days at sea (and 8300 miles) the Plastiki arrived yesterday in Australia. The boat, made of more than 12,000 plastic bottles, sailed across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco. The voyage was partly inspired by Thor Heyerdahl&#8217;s epic voyage on the raft Kon Tiki, when Heyerdahl tried to prove that ancient mariners could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postcardsfromtheplanet.com/2010/07/27/plastiki-arrives/</link>
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		<title>Oil Spill ticker</title>
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		<link>http://www.postcardsfromtheplanet.com/2010/06/08/oil-spill-ticker/</link>
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		<title>Birds and the Gulf Oil Spill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the Gulf Oil Spill from the BP well drilled by the Deepwater Horizon continues, things are getting worse and worse for local wildlife. Here are a few places where you can find out more about what&#8217;s happening and how to help!
How Bad is the Gulf Oil Spill? Ask the Pelicans.
 
Bird Rescue
 US Fish [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postcardsfromtheplanet.com/2010/06/07/birds-and-the-gulf-oil-spill/</link>
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		<title>NASA Shuttle mission ends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another shuttle mission ended today &#8212; but this one was the last for Space Shuttle Atlantis. Its final planned mission was to deliver an Integrated Cargo Carrier and a Russian-built Mini Research Module to the International Space Station. STS-132 was the 32nd mission for Atlantis. Despite the success of the shuttle missions in helping to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postcardsfromtheplanet.com/2010/05/27/nasa-shuttle-mission-ends/</link>
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		<title>Oil from Gulf Oil Spill hits the coastline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As oil continues to flow from the leaking oil well located a mile underwater in the Gulf of Mexico, some of the oil is washing up on beaches. Unfortunately, this looks like the early stages of a massive, tragic ecological disaster. Fishermen, wildlife, tourism, and the environmental health and  beauty of the Gulf Coast will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postcardsfromtheplanet.com/2010/04/29/oil-from-gulf-oil-spill-hits-the-coastline/</link>
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		<title>Happy Earth Day!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s still (always) a lot of work to be done, but the fortieth celebration of Earth Day is definitely a big moment! Visit  Earth Day  to find celebrations near you, or just make up your own! For possible actions you can take, try  Actions.

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		<link>http://www.postcardsfromtheplanet.com/2010/04/22/happy-earth-day/</link>
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		<title>New Money for NASA Studies of Our Earth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the space shuttle Discovery circles the earth this week , the Obama administration is proposing a 60% rise in funding for NASA to study the earth. One particular focus of study will be carbon dioxide and its effects on the atmosphere &#8212; part of the money would pay for a new Orbiting Carbon Observatory. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postcardsfromtheplanet.com/2010/04/06/new-money-for-nasa-studies-of-our-earth/</link>
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		<title>Monarch Butterfly Update 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It hasn&#8217;t been a very good winter for Monarchs &#8211; bad weather seems to have taken a toll on them. Plan now to plant some milkweed for them and help the population recover. Read an update here: Monarch Butterflies . (Do you know how to tell the sex of Monarchs? The one in the picture is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postcardsfromtheplanet.com/2010/04/02/monarch-butterfly-update-2010/</link>
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		<title>Plastic is not so fantastic (in the ocean, anyway)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Plastic Rubbish Blights Atlantic Ocean
After more than 6100 tows of special nets over twenty years, scientists and students from the Sea Education Association have shown that the Atlantic Ocean has its own garbage patch area. Like the Great Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean, the ocean currents collect small bits of plastic and trash, endangering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postcardsfromtheplanet.com/2010/03/03/plastic-is-not-so-fantastic-in-the-ocean-anyway/</link>
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		<title>New Look at Ancient Human (and his earwax)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers led by Eske Willerslev at the University of Copenhagen this week announced the first completed sequencing of the genome of an ancient human. The genetic material came from an ancient clump of hair, collected in Greenland by Danish archeologists in the 1980&#8217;s. &#8220;From the DNA, we can tell a lot about the individual,&#8221; says [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postcardsfromtheplanet.com/2010/02/12/new-look-at-ancient-human-and-his-earwax/</link>
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