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Golden State Heating Up
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 30, 2007Average temperatures in California rose almost one degree Celsius (nearly two degrees Fahrenheit) during the second half of the 20th century, with urban areas blazing the way to warmer conditions, according to a new study by scientists at NASA and California State University, Los Angeles. Bill Patzert of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., teamed with Steve LaDochy of Calif ... more Australia Launches Fund To Stop Other Countries Cutting Down Their Own Trees 
Sydney (AFP) March 29, 2007Australia Thursday committed 160 million US dollars to launch what it hopes will become an international fund to protect forests and fight global warming. Prime Minister John Howard said the initiative would achieve a greater reduction in greenhouse gas emissions than if Australia bowed to pressure and signed up to the Kyoto Protocol. Australia and the United States are the only two develo ... more Warm Winter Also In The Arctic 
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 30, 2007Central Europe is not the only place where the past, warm winter has caused record temperatures. Unusually mild temperatures also prevented ice formation in the Arctic, specifically in the region around Spitsbergen. This is the conclusion drawn by scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR). Both institutes are members of t ... more MORE HEADLINES |
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Healthy Coastal Wetlands Would Adapt To Rising Oceans
Durham NC (SPX) Mar 29, 2007Tidal marshes, which nurture marine life and reduce storm damage along many coastlines, should be able to adjust to rising sea levels and avoid being inundated and lost, if their vegetation isn't damaged and their supplies of upstream sediment aren't reduced, a new Duke University study suggests. Such marshes "offer great value as buffers of coastal storms in cities such as New Orleans, wh ... more Greenhouse Gas Effect Consistent Over 420 Million Years 
New Haven CT (SPX) Mar 29, 2007New calculations show that sensitivity of Earth's climate to changes in the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) has been consistent for the last 420 million years, according to an article in Nature by geologists at Yale and Wesleyan Universities. A popular predictor of future climate sensitivity is the change in global temperature produced by each doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere. This st ... more Did Dust Bust The 2006 Hurricane Season Forecasts 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 29, 2007A recent NASA study suggests that tiny dust particles may have foiled forecasts that the 2006 hurricane season would be another active one. In June and July 2006, there were several significant dust storms over the Sahara Desert in Africa. As this dust traveled westward into the Atlantic, satellite data show that the particles blocked sunlight from reaching the ocean surface, causing ocean ... more MORE HEADLINES |
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Smart Sunglasses And Goggles Let Users Adjust Shade And Color
Chicago IL (SPX) Mar 28, 2007Imagine a single pair of glasses with lenses that can be transparent or dark, and in shades of yellow, green or purple, all on command. A new lens with chameleon powers promises to dramatically improve sunglasses' function. Shades that can be controlled at the touch of a button would interest athletes, construction workers and anyone with sensitive eyes. The glasses are made possible by a ... more Science Of Metagenomics Will Transform Modern Microbiology 
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 28, 2007The emerging field of metagenomics, where the DNA of entire communities of microbes is studied simultaneously, presents the greatest opportunity -- perhaps since the invention of the microscope -- to revolutionize understanding of the microbial world, says a new report from the National Research Council. The report calls for a new Global Metagenomics Initiative to drive advances in the fie ... more Plastic That Degrades In Seawater Could Be Boon For Cruise Industry And Others 
Chicago IL (SPX) Mar 28, 2007Large volumes of plastic waste generated aboard military, merchant and cruise ships must be stored onboard, often for prolonged periods, until they make port. In the future, a new type of environmentally friendly plastic that degrades in seawater may make it safe and practical to toss plastic waste overboard, freeing-up valuable storage space, according to scientists at The University of Souther ... more MORE HEADLINES |
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The Next Great Earthquake
Troy NY (SPX) Mar 26, 2007The 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and resulting tsunami are now infamous for the damage they caused, but at the time many scientists believed this area was unlikely to create a quake of such magnitude. In the March 23 issue of the journal Science, a geophysicist from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute urges the public and policy makers to consider all subduction-type tectonic boundaries to be "l ... more New Evidence Puts Snowball Earth Theory Out In The Cold 
LOndon UK (SPX) Mar 26, 2007The theory that Earth once underwent a prolonged time of extreme global freezing has been dealt a blow by new evidence that periods of warmth occurred during this so-called 'Snowball Earth' era. Analyses of glacial sedimentary rocks in Oman, published online today in Geology, have produced clear evidence of hot-cold cycles in the Cryogenian period, roughly 850-544 million years ago. The UK ... more Microfossils Unravel Climate History Of Tropical Africa 
Amsterdam, Holland (SPX) Mar 26, 2007Scientists from the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research obtained for the first time a detailed temperature record for tropical central Africa over the past 25,000 years. They did this in cooperation with a German colleague from the University of Bremen, The scientists developed an entirely new method to reconstruct the history of land temperatures based on the molecular fossi ... more MORE HEADLINES |
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Global Shipping Must Curb 'Unchecked' Pollution
Washington (AFP) March 22, 2007Ocean-going vessels now belch out more of the major air pollutant sulfur dioxide than all of the world's cars, trucks and buses combined, according to a study released Thursday. The group behind the report, the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), also said the shipping industry emits more of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide than many industrialized nations. The ICC ... more 80 Dead In Pakistan Landslides, Rain 
Muzaffarabad (AFP) Pakistan, March 22, 2007Thirteen more people have died in landslides and accidents caused by heavy rain in Pakistan, officials and residents said Thursday, bringing the death toll from several days of bad weather to 80. Six members of a family died and two were injured when they were hit by an avalanche in the mountainous Dir district of North West Frontier Province on Wednesday, local residents told AFP by telep ... more Yangtze Drought Triggers Debate Over China's Three Gorges Dam 
Beijing (AFP) March 22, 2007Prolonged drought along the Yangtze has reduced China's longest river to record lows, triggering a debate over the Three Gorges dam's ability to generate power, state media said Thursday. The Yangtze last year fell to its lowest level since records began in 1877, but a dam official told the Xinhua news agency that power generation in the Three Gorges area would not be affected. "Ther ... more MORE HEADLINES |
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