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Adaptation Defined

The adjustment of an organism or population to a new or altered environment through genetic changes brought about by natural selection.

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Pandora: Court in the act: Doherty's band is barred from festival by magistrates

Published August 19, 2008, 4:08 pm, Independent

More bad news for Pete Doherty, as we hear that his band is to be barred from performing at the Moonfest music festival this Friday.

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PRESS DIGEST - Ireland - Aug 19

Published August 19, 2008, 3:01 am, AlertNet

Source: Reuters DUBLIN, Aug 19 (Reuters) - These are some of the leading stories in Ireland's newspapers on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and cannot vouch for their accuracy ...

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WWF-Canada: Behind World Food Crisis Is a World Water Crisis

Published August 18, 2008, 11:59 am, Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance

WWF Director General James Leape told the opening session of World Water Week in Stockholm today that a world water crisis is a key factor behind current global anxieties over faltering food supplies and rising food costs.

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DELAWARE: State monitors sea level rise for future risks

Published August 18, 2008, 3:42 am, The Daily Times

DOVER - Decades had passed since a storm sent saltwater and fish into corn and bean fields west of Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge.

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East Africa: Climate Change Pushing Pastoralists to Survival Mode

Published August 18, 2008, 1:48 am, AllAfrica.com

Pastoralists – among the most marginalised groups of people in East Africa – could adapt to climate change and support others in the face of unpredictable weather, but are continuing to be ignored, according to Oxfam.

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Del. monitors sea level rise for future risks

Published August 18, 2008, 12:57 am, The News Journal

Mapping could forecast worsening floods, wetland losses

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Indonesia to allocate $200 mln on climate change

Published August 16, 2008, 11:26 pm, People's Daily

The Indonesian government plans toset aside 2 trillion rupiah (about 217 million U.S. dollars) to upgrade capacity building of public next year in dealing with the expected extreme weather changes due to the global warming. The proposed expenditures for mitigation and adaptation programs on climate change in the 2009 state budget would be aboutfive times higher than the 42.6 million U.S. dollars ...

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Indonesia to allocate US$200 million on climate change

Published August 16, 2008, 9:22 pm, China Daily

JAKARTA -- The Indonesian government plans to set aside 2 trillion rupiah (about US$217 million) to upgrade capacity building of public next year in dealing with the expected extreme weather changes due to the global warming.

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Kansas City Art Institute class designs for an environmentally changed future

Published August 16, 2008, 8:37 pm, The Kansas City Star

In the future, humans will become nomads in a new Ice Age. At least that was the message implicit in a Kansas City Art Institute summer course conducted by members of the collective Spurse.

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McCarthy's 'The Road' comes to the screen

Published August 16, 2008, 3:29 pm, Los Angeles Times

Director John Hillcoat and colleagues, in adapting the Pulitzer-winning work, have toiled to weigh hopelessness against faith. THE FATHER and son struggling to stay alive in "The Road" understand that everything they know is coming to an end.

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