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Beijing Restrictions Offer Case Study In Emissions Of Key Atmospheric Gases
Cambridge, MA (SPX) May 01, 2007The Chinese government's restrictions on Beijing motorists during a three-day conference last November -- widely viewed as a dress rehearsal for efforts to slash smog and airborne pollutants during the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing -- succeeded in cutting the city's emissions of one important class of atmospheric gases by an impressive 40 percent. That's the conclusion of Harvard Un ... more Ape Gestures Offer Clues To The Evolution Of Human Communication 
Druid Hills GA (SPX) May 01, 2007Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have found bonobos and chimpanzees use manual gestures of their hands, feet and limbs more flexibly than they do facial expressions and vocalizations, further supporting the evolution of human language began with gestures as the gestural origin hypothesis of language suggests. This study appears in the current issue of ... more Sleep And Exercise Critical To A Smarter And Longer Life 
Boston (UPI) April 30, 2007Getting a good night's sleep after learning something new helps you remember that information, and getting regular exercise appears to ward off or delay Parkinson's disease, researchers said Monday. Those are among the results of studies being presented at the 59th annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology meeting in Boston. During the weeklong session, researchers will give more ... more How Long Would It Take for Smallpox Vaccines To Protect People In A Major Outbreak 
St Louis MO (SPX) May 01, 2007In the event of a smallpox outbreak in the United States, how long would it take for a vaccine to start protecting Americans by stimulating an immune response? A new national study led by Saint Louis University School of Medicine will attempt to answer this question. General routine vaccinations for smallpox were stopped in the United States in 1971, and the world was declared free of smal ... more Tree Rings Show Elevated Tungsten Coincides With Nevada Leukemia Cluster 
Fallon NV (SPX) May 01, 2007Tungsten began increasing in trees in Fallon, Nev. several years before the town's rise in childhood leukemia cases, according to a new research report. The amount of tungsten in tree rings from Fallon quadrupled between 1990 and 2002, whereas the amount in tree rings from nearby towns remained the same, according to a research team led by Paul R. Sheppard of The University of Arizona's Laborato ... more |
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Climate Change Heats Up Arctic Geopolitics
Montreal (AFP) April 27, 2007Global warming has the United States and Canada scrambling to overhaul their strategies for controlling North America's vast Arctic, as sea passage grows easier and natural gas resources beckon. Ice melt in Canada's Great North already allows boat traffic in the Northwest Passage, long the definition of a difficult route between the Atlantic and Pacific through the Arctic ... read more Noxious Lightning 
Huntsville Al (SPX) Apr 29, 2007Lightning is more than light and noise: It's an intense chemical factory that affects both local air quality and global climate. But how big is the effect? Researchers aren't sure. To answer the question they're developing a new technique to estimate the factory's output. If successful, the method will be applied to the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) that will monitor the Western hemisphe ... more Plants Do Not Emit Methane 
Amsterdam, Holland (SPX) Apr 30, 2007A recent study in Nature suggested that terrestrial plants may be a global source of the potent greenhouse gas methane, making plants substantial contributors to the annual global methane budget. This controversial finding and the resulting commotion triggered a consortium of Dutch scientists to re-examine this in an independent study. Reporting in New Phytologist, Tom Dueck and colleagues prese ... more Asian Demand For Shark Fins Threatens Colombian Species 
Bogota (AFP) April 29, 2007When Colombian naval officials seized two tonnes of shark fins in a boat off the Pacific coast last week, they threw a spotlight on a huge black market serving hungry Asian markets which is blamed for pushing some species toward extinction. Asian consumers prize the fins for use in making status-symbol soups -- and one pound (450 grams) of fin can fetch 300 dollars. Some shark-fin soups go for a ... more Americans See Climate Threat But Reluctant To Conserve 
New York (AFP) April 27, 2007A strong majority of people in the United States see global warming as an imminent danger but not all are ready to make big sacrifices to slow climate change, according to a new poll Friday. The New York Times/CBS poll said that even among Republicans, traditionally less likely to support environmental issues, 60 percent believed the threats to the global climate require immediate action. Among ... more Satellites Shed Light On Global Warming 
Paris, France (ESA) Apr 29, 2007As climate change continues to make headlines across the world, participants at the 2007 Envisat Symposium this week are hearing how Earth observation satellites allow scientists to better understand the parameters involved in global warming and how this is impacting the planet. The cryosphere is both influenced by and has a major influence on climate. Because any increase in the melt rate ... more |
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Cracks In Wall Suppressing Indonesian Mud Volcano
Jakarta (AFP) April 26, 2007Workers were racing Thursday to repair a massive wall holding back sludge spewing from Indonesia's "mud volcano" that has already flooded hundreds of homes, an official said. Cracks started to appear in the man-made embankment around the disaster area in east Java on Wednesday, prompting authorities to declare the area off limits. Bambang Suryadi, from the company charged with monitoring the site, said a 300-metre exclusion zone was thrown up only as a precaution, saying the situation was not severe ... read more Oceanic Twilight Zone Plays Important Role In Climate Change 
Woods Hole MA (SPX) Apr 27, 2007A major study has shed new light on the dim layer of the ocean called the "twilight zone" - where mysterious processes affect the ocean's ability to absorb and store carbon dioxide accumulating in our atmosphere. The results of two international research expeditions to the Pacific Ocean, published April 27 in the journal Science, show that carbon dioxide - taken up by photosynthesizing mar ... more Iran Dam Unleashes Torrent Of Controversy 
Tehran (AFP) April 26, 2007Iran has overruled critics and started filling a new dam in the parched south of the country that will drown an ancient archaeological site and could threaten the tomb of Cyrus the Great. Thousands of activists have rallied and petitioned the government not to flood the dam, which is only seven kilometres (four miles) from Pasargadae -- the first capital of the Persian Empire. During ... more Fish Growth Enhanced By Climate Change 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Apr 27, 2007Changes in growth rates in some coastal and long-lived deep-ocean fish species in the south west Pacific are consistent with shifts in wind systems and water temperatures, according to new Australian research published in the United States this week. "We have drawn correlations between the growth of fish species related to their environmental conditions - faster growth in waters above a de ... more Scientists Link Volcanic Eruptions To Ancient Global Warming 
New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Apr 27, 2007Scientists examining a spike in worldwide ocean temperatures 55 million years ago have linked it to massive volcanic eruptions that pushed Greenland and northwest Europe apart to create the North Atlantic Ocean. Writing in the journal Science, geologists at Roskilde University in Denmark, Oregon State University and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, present evidence that this in ... more Poll Shows Support For FEMA 
Washington (UPI) April 26, 2007A large majority of Americans believe that the Federal Emergency Management Agency was damaged by being absorbed into the Department of Homeland Security and ought to be restored to the status of an independent agency. The news comes as lawmakers assess the congressionally mandated shake-up of the department last year, which effectively reconstituted FEMA within Homeland Security and ring- ... more |
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