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		<title>Arizona&#8217;s Sunflower Fire balloons to 12,000 acres</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 18:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Hincha-Ownby</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 400 firefighters are working to contain the wildfire. [...]]]></description>
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	The largest wildfire currently burning in Arizona, the Sunflower Fire, started on Saturday morning in the Mazatzal Wilderness. Since that time it has grown rapidly. On Monday, when I first visited the site of the fire, it was an estimated 3,100 acres in size.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The race to save the Tasmanian devil</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 18:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An aggressive and contagious facial cancer threatens to drive Australia's wild Tasmanian devil to extinction in as little as 5 years. [...]]]></description>
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	TOMALLA STATION, Australia &mdash; It&#39;s been hundreds of years since the Tasmanian devil last lived on the Australian mainland but, in the misty hills of Barrington Tops, a pioneering group is being bred for survival.

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	Rat-like in appearance but with a marsupial pouch and carnivorous jaws that can crack bone, Tasmanian devils are an enigmatic Australian species.

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	They are reclusive creatures that sleep by day and forage by night, and are best known for the guttural cries that l]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>AWOL penguin outruns Japan coastguard</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 18:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Penguin Number 337 was under surveillance by the Coast Guard, but they were unsure of how to capture the fast-moving bird. [...]]]></description>
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	TOKYO &mdash; A penguin that has been on the run from a Tokyo aquarium is alive and well, a park official said Thursday, as it emerged the fugitive had given the slip to Japan&#39;s well-equipped coastguard.

	&nbsp;

	More than 30 sightings of the 60-centimeter (2 foot) Humbolt penguin have been reported to Tokyo Sea Life park since it fled in early March, &quot;many of them recently, including today&quot;, park spokesman Takashi Sugino told AFP.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>200-year-old shipwreck found in Gulf of Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 18:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A copper-plated ship yielded the most interesting finds, including ceramic plates, glass bottles and a very rare ship's stove. [...]]]></description>
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	A newly discovered shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico may have originally gone down 200 years ago. The ship is full of glass bottles, ceramic plates and boxes of muskets.

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	The shipwreck was discovered 200 miles (321 kilometers) off the Gulf Coast in more than 4,000 feet (1,219 meters) of water by a Gulf of Mexico mission led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Recycled packaging gets the outdoor ottoman treatment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 17:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Germany's Dedon teams up with designer Stephen Burks to release the prettiest collection of patio furniture made from recycled food packaging that you ever did see. (Seen prettier? Then I don't know what to tell you.) [...]]]></description>
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		It&rsquo;s patio furniture season, y&rsquo;all! Before you head out back and plop yourself down in one of those cheap plastic lawn chairs with the woobly leg that&rsquo;s duct-taped together, get a load of the newest collection from eco-minded German outdoor living brand Dedon. Developed in collaboration with socially conscious N.Y.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Towering Tyrannosaur prepares for auction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 16:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Auction director hopes a generous philanthropist will purchase the nearly complete dinosaur skeleton and then donate it to a museum. [...]]]></description>
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	NEW YORK &mdash; In a showroom on the west side of Manhattan, minerals worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, tufts of mammoth hair, pieces of the moon, not to mention a&nbsp; nearly complete Tyrannosaur skeleton, are being unpacked and arranged.

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	On May 20, Heritage Auctions plans to auction these items off, but for the three days before, they are on public display here.&nbsp;

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	The headliner is a nearly complete Tyrannosaurus bataar, fully ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>World&#8217;s largest solar eclipse party to take over Colorado stadium</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 16:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The University of Colorado, at Boulder will have hot dogs and trivia contests for the skygazers at Folsom Stadium. [...]]]></description>
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	A solar eclipse will blot out part of the sun this weekend, and astronomers in Colorado are organizing what they hope will be the world&#39;s largest viewing party in one place. Their venue: an entire football stadium.

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	The eclipse will occur in the afternoon and early evening on May 20, during which time the moon will pass between Earth and the sun, casting a shadow on the planet.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>What does the inside of active volcano look like?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 16:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Antarctic volcano Mount Erebus's insides are a honeycomb of interconnected pipes and magma chambers that twist and turn through the mountain. [...]]]></description>
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	What&#39;s it like to stare into the roiling mouth of an active volcano? Pretty darn cool, say scientists who work at Antarctica&#39;s Mount Erebus, home of one of Earth&#39;s only long-lived lava lakes.

	&nbsp;

	But it&#39;s what&#39;s happening underneath that glowing, molten rock that is of even greater interest, and new research is offering intriguing answers to what lies beneath the lake.

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	For the first time, scientists have gotten a glimpse of the rocky plumbing inside the volcano.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Vermont becomes first state to ban fracking</title>
		<link>http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/energy/blogs/vermont-becomes-first-state-to-ban-fracking</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may be a largely symbolic victory for environmentalists, but many critics of hydraulic fracturing hope it will set an example for other states to follow. [...]]]></description>
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	Vermont is now the first U.S. state where fracking is illegal. Gov.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Photos: Rescued penguins explore new home</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 15:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Magellanic penguins swim and play during a preview event for the opening of the new June Keys Penguin Habitat at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, Calif. [...]]]></description>
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		Penguins under threat]]></content:encoded>
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