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500000 Years Of Climate History Stored Year By Year
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Mar 15, 2007The bottom of Turkey"s Lake Van is covered by a layer of mud several hundreds of metres deep. For climatologists this unprepossessing slime is worth its weight in gold: summer by summer pollen has been deposited from times long past. From it they can detect right down to a specific year what climatic conditions prevailed at the time of the Neanderthals, for example. ... more Scientists Explain Source Of Mysterious Tremors Emanating From Fault Zones 
Stanford CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2007Tiny tremors and temblors recently discovered in fault zones from California to Japan are generated by slow-moving earthquakes that may foreshadow catastrophic seismic events, according to scientists at Stanford University and the University of Tokyo. In a study published March 15 in Nature, the research team focused on weak seismic signals known as "non-volcanic tremor" and "low-frequency earthquakes." ... more Transported Black Carbon A Significant Player In Pacific Ocean Climate 
San Diego CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2007Soot and other particulate pollution from Asian sources make up more than 75 percent of black carbon transported at high altitudes, according to a Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego-led study. More than three-quarters of the particulate pollution known as black carbon transported at high altitudes over the West Coast during spring is from Asian sources, according to a resear ... more MORE HEADLINES |
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Thailand Considers Declaring Emergency Over Haze
Bangkok (AFP) March 13, 2007Thailand may declare an environmental emergency in tourist hotspot Chiang Mai and two other northern provinces after a thick smog blanketed the region, the environment minister said Tuesday. Kasem Snidwong Na Ayuttaya said air quality in three provinces was double the hazardous level after widespread forest fires and farmers setting blazes to clear land. The elderly and children were urged ... more Tonga Quake Not Conducive To Tsunami 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Mar 14, 2007Seismologists at Washington University in St. Louis and their colleagues in Australia, Japan and Tonga have determined why a large earthquake in Tonga did not cause a large tsunami. A tsunami warning was issued around the Pacific Rim following the magnitude 8.0 earthquake on May 3, 2006, but the resulting tsunami was very minor and caused no damage. Tsunamis generally result from shallow-t ... more Human Rights In Darfur 
Geneva (UPI) Switzerland, March 12, 2007The U.N. Human Rights Council High Level Mission to Sudan, mandated to assess the situation in the nation's western Darfur region, delivered a critical report back to the council's fourth session beginning Monday in Geneva, Switzerland. The five-member panel, despite being unable to visit Darfur, also delivered an assessment of what was needed. "The situation of human rights in Darfur rema ... more MORE TERRA DAILY HEADLINES
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Getting On Your Nerves And Repairing Them
Bethesda MD (SPX) Mar 12, 2007Here is some news that will certainly get on people's nerves: In a study to be published in the March 2007 issue of The FASEB Journal, scientists from East Carolina University report that a key molecular mechanism, RNA interference (RNAi), plays a role in the regeneration and repair of periphery nerves, which are the nerves located outside of the brain and spinal column. This research may ... more Indonesia Allots One Billion Dollars To Prevent Floods 
Jakarta (AFP) March 12, 2007Indonesia has earmarked more than one billion dollars to prevent flooding in the capital where an inundation earlier this year killed dozens, a report said Monday. The flooding in February following monsoon downpours killed 85 people across Indonesia, displaced some 340,000 and paralysed Jakarta, a city of some 12 million people. It led to searing criticism of flood prevention measures as ... more Germans Urged To Give Foreign Travel A Rest To Curb Global Warming 
Berlin (AFP) Mar 13, 2007As the global warming debate heats up, Germans are being urged to swap their holidays on faraway tropical islands for trips to less glamorous Baltic beaches to help save the planet. "In the near future, people are going to become increasingly aware that aircraft emit vast amounts of greenhouse gases, far more than cars or trains," said Manfred Stock, a researcher at the climate research centre i ... more MORE HEADLINES
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Regardless Of Global Warming Rising Co2 Levels Threaten Marine Life
Champaign, IL (SPX) Mar 09, 2007Like a piece of chalk dissolving in vinegar, marine life with hard shells is in danger of being dissolved by increasing acidity in the oceans. Ocean acidity is rising as sea water absorbs more carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere from power plants and automobiles. The higher acidity threatens marine life, including corals and shellfish, which may become extinct later this century from the ... more Relief Flows Into Indonesia Quake Area As Death Toll Revised Down 
Jakarta (AFP) Mar 11, 2007Aid from local and international relief agencies reached victims of the deadly earthquake on Indonesia's Sumatra as authorities Sunday revised the death toll down from 73 to 66. "There has been many correction sent from the region, as dead victims from one district may have been sent to another for autopsy, and they were counted twice," said Suryadi from the West Sumatra Disaster Relief Unit. ... more Delft Research Increases Understanding Of Earth Magnetic Field 
Delft, Holland (SPX) Mar 12, 2007Research recently conducted at Delft University of Technology marks an important step forward in understanding the origins of the Earth's magnetic field. The research findings are published this week in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters. Science attributes the creation of the Earth's magnetic field to the movement of electricity conducting liquids in the molten core of the Ear ... more MORE TERRA DAILY HEADLINES |
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