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Amphibians In Losing Race With Environmental Change
Corvallis OR (SPX) May 03, 2007Even though they had the ability to evolve and survive for hundreds of millions of years - since before the time of the dinosaurs and through many climatic regimes - the massive, worldwide decline of amphibians can best be understood by their inability to keep pace with the current rate of global change, a new study suggests. The basic constraints of evolution and the inability of species ... more NASA Satellite Captures Image Of Georgia Wildfires 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 03, 2007A number of fires continue to burn in southeastern Georgia, as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite passed over, capturing this image on April 30. Active fire regions are indicated on the image with red pixels. Gusting winds and a lack of precipitation have added to the intensity of these fires, according to fire officials. Smoke continues to blow o ... more Melting Greenland Ice Could Raise Ocean Seven Meters 
Vancouver (AFP) May 01, 2007The world's oceans could rise by up to seven meters if Greenland's ice cap entirely melts because of global warming, climate scientists said Tuesday. Glaciers on Greenland, the world's most icy land mass, are now melting most quickly where they are in contact with surrounding ocean, while ice in the high centre remains intact, said Garry Clarke, a professor at the University of British Columbia ... more Drought Resistance Is Key To Plants In Tropical Forests 
Paris (AFP) May 02, 2007Sensitivity to water is a major factor in determining which plant species succeed in tropical habitats, a finding that suggests climate change could reshape rainforest diversity, a study says. Biologists led by Bettina Engelbrecht of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama looked at the distribution of 48 species of trees and shrubs, growing in study plots on the Panamanian isthmus ... more Climate Changes Caused Neanderthal Extinction On The Iberian Peninsula 
Granada, Spain (SPX) May 03, 2007Climate - and not modern humans - was the cause of the Neanderthal extinction in the Iberian Peninsula. Such is the conclusion of the University of Granada research group RNM 179 - Mineralogy and Geochemistry of sedimentary and metamorphic environments, headed by professor Miguel Ortega Huertas and whose members Francisco Jose Jimenez Espejo, Francisca Mart�nez Ruiz and David Gallego Torres work ... more |
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Manila (AFP) May 02, 2007The Asia Development Bank (ADB) said Wednesday it had approved a 79.3 million dollar loan to India's largest private power company to set up and operate wind energy facilities. The loan will support Tata Power Co. Ltd in setting up and running wind power facilities in the state of Maharashtra which will produce 100 megawatts of electricity, the ADB said in a statement from its Manila-based headq ... more Offshore Oilfield Development Could Enjoy Tax Breaks 
Murmansk, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 03, 2007Companies developing offshore oil deposits could enjoy tax breaks, Russia's president said Wednesday. "Such a decision needs assessments," Vladimir Putin said, speaking at a session of the State Council and the Maritime Board, a government agency overseeing seaports and the commercial fleet, in the ice-free Barents Sea port of Murmansk in northern Russia. The tax breaks proposal came from ... more Putin Vows To Develop Arctic Transport For Energy And National Interest 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 03, 2007Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday Russia should develop transport in the Arctic to support future energy projects and Russia's. Speaking onboard a nuclear icebreaker to be used by energy producers, the president said this should be done in an environmentally friendly way, citing "the vulnerable natural environment" there. "Considering the projected increase in hydrocarbon tra ... more China, India, Brazil Hold Up Climate Change Talks 
Bangkok (AFP) May 02, 2007A demand by China, India and Brazil that rich nations accept they are mainly responsible for global warming has held up progress at a key UN climate change conference here, delegates said Wednesday. The three nations' insistence since the talks started on Monday that the developed world recognise their dominant role in climate change has stolen precious time meant for debate on how best to tackl ... more Cell Splits Water Via Sunlight To Produce Hydrogen 
St Louis MO (SPX) May 03, 2007Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a unique photocatalytic cell that splits water to produce hydrogen and oxygen in water using sunlight and the power of a nanostructured catalyst. The group is developing novel methodologies for synthesis of nanostructured films with superior opto-electronic properties. One of the methods, which sandwiches three semiconductor fi ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) May 02, 2007As U.S. policy-makers prepare for hearings later this week on space-science and climate-change research, the world's largest general science society has warned that budget cuts are threatening U.S. satellites essential for weather forecasting, hurricane warning, studies of global climate change and more. Cutbacks and reallocations within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (N ... more Puzzling Plankton Yield Secrets Of Evolution And Global Photosynthesis 
Walnut Creek CA (SPX) May 02, 2007The analysis of DNA sequences from tiny green algae have provided new insights into the mystery of how new species of plankton evolve-and further highlights their critical role in managing the global cycling of carbon. These findings, by a group led by the DOE Joint Genome Institute; the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego; and the Pierre and Marie Curie Univ ... more Alien Plants Attack Using Resource Conservation As Weapon 
Stanford CA (SPX) May 02, 2007One of the most serious and least understood threats to the world's ecosystems is the problem of invasive species-exotic plants, animals and other organisms that are brought into habitats and subsequently spread at a rapid rate, often replacing native species and reducing biodiversity. Invaders thrive best in regions where there is an abundance of materials for growth, such as water, nutri ... more Air-Sea Surface Science 
Virginia Key FL (SPX) May 02, 2007Aided by new observations from the Coupled Boundary Layer Air-Sea Transfer (CBLAST) - Hurricane field program, scientists at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science have helped to develop and test a new, high-resolution computer model to better understand how air-sea interactions directly affect hurricane intensity, a factor not yet possible in the current operational forecast mo ... more Exercise Tests Responses To Hurricane, Nuke And Terrorists 
Washington (AFP) April 30, 2007A hurricane roars ashore in Rhode Island. A nuclear device goes off in the Midwest. And terrorists begin wreaking havoc in Alaska. What do you do? The Pentagon and other US and Canadian agencies plan to answer that question in a major exercise called Ardent Sentry-Northern Edge 07 that began Monday and will play out over the next 18 days, involving thousands of US troops and state and local offi ... more
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