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The remnants of Hurricane Charley are pushing out over the north Atlantic tonight but the tally of the storm s wrath in Florida continues to add up.Officials say at least 16 were killed in the hurricane, and overall damage estimates could top more than $20 billion. One relief worker described the relief effort in Punta Gorda, the hardest hi
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Esteemed evolutionary biologist E. O. Wilson believes the only way we can avoid a catastrophic mass extinction is to set aside half of the planet in permanently protected areas for the 10 million other species who live on Earth. Wilson calls the concept Half Earth 鈥?and he says its not as outlandish as it might appear. Photo: Jason Wallace Back in 2002, E. O. Wilson argued that a bottleneck of overconsumption and poverty could lead to the extinction of half of all species on Earth. It a theme that he reprises i
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