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Shaken pandas

EIGHT young pandas traumatised by the Chinese earthquake in Sichuan province are being treated for anxiety at Beijing Zoo. Lu Yong, their keeper at the Wolong reserve, told London newspaper The Guardian that the pandas were so scared that they had stopped eating. Five staff members at Wolong were killed in the quake and one panda is still missing.

NASA climate blame

Managers of the press office at NASA’s HQ systematically downplayed news on climate research between 2004 and 2006, according to the space agency’s watchdog. News on climate science was “marginalised or mischaracterised”, according to the Office…

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