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Early today NASA launched its new satellite, Jason 2, which will monitor how ocean masses move in an effort to understand climate change's effects.

June 20, 2008
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Four leading Japanese robotic companies have joined forces to outcompete South Korea, which recently announced legislation to develop more robots for common household use.

June 19, 2008
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Jatropha, a hardy biofuel plant grown in salty soils near the Indian Ocean, may reduce biofuels' competition with food-producing crops, industry officials say.

June 19, 2008
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Today marks the 100th anniversary of the first Japanese immigrants to Brazil. Now many in the community of 1.5 million are known as excellent farmers.

June 18, 2008
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About three thousand squid vessels have suspended operations for two days across Japan due to skyrocketing fuel costs.

June 18, 2008
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In the matriarchal Mosuo culture of southwestern China, women own property and determine family relationships. But this so-called free-love society is under threat from modernization.

June 17, 2008
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Peru's government has reclaimed more than a hundred pre-Inca and colonial artifacts from private collections in Germany and the United States.

June 17, 2008
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Landslides following the May 12 earthquake have destroyed forests and blocked roads, leaving just a five-month bamboo supply for pandas in a Chengdu breeding center.

June 16, 2008
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In the Israeli desert, a U.S.-Israeli team is testing a new technology that uses mirrors to harness the sun's rays and create electricity-producing steam.

June 16, 2008
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The World Day Against Child Labour raised awareness of the plight of child laborers around the world -- most of whom are impoverished and have no chance for a formal education.

June 13, 2008
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An entire village inside a mountain is home to China's last known cave dwellers. It's a difficult life, but for the children, there's still room to play.

June 13, 2008
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A deer nicknamed "Unicorn" that has a single antler in the center of its head is drawing attention to a Tuscan nature reserve.

June 12, 2008
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Dead and injured animals continue to wash ashore a week after a cargo ship collision caused a massive fuel-oil spill off the Uruguayan coast.

June 12, 2008
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Undercover agents with a wildlife-trade investigation group report that they recently found illegal tiger bone wine for sale in two Chinese safari parks.

June 11, 2008
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The remains of a palace thought to have been used by the emperor Moctezuma (also called Montezuma) have been unearthed in Mexico City, archaeologists say.

June 11, 2008

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