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The plains west of Sydney are turning to dust because of the hot weather during 2007, said the Bureau of Meteorology.More than 40 per cent of the county's rural income came from the Murray-Darling basin during good years.

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A rocky outcrop found off the northern coast of Greenland could open up a new front in the looming battle for control of the Arctic and the North Pole.

Illegal pesticide use of chlordecone, banned in 1993, is being blamed for the increase of prostate cancer in men in Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Carribean. It is being reported that 1 in 2 men will develop prostate cancer and have probably accounted for the high accounts of genital malformation and fertility rates. Chlordecone stays in the soil for up to a century, contaminating the food chain and water supply. This area is the worlds eighth largest banana exporter.

A hydrogen fuel cell go-kart has broken the world land-speed record while giving off zero emissions.

I am no vegetarian (love my meat) but this article did put a new light to this issue which usually I don't pay much attention to.

"According to Vernon Coleman, eating meat has health hazards because along with the meat you may be consuming hormones, drugs and other chemicals that have been fed to the animals before they were killed. No one knows precisely what effect eating the hormones in meat is likely to have on your health ... "