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North Atlantic Warming Tied To Natural Variability; But Global Warming May Be At Play Elsewhere
Durham NC (SPX) Jan 04, 2008A Duke University-led analysis of available records shows that while the North Atlantic Ocean's surface waters warmed in the 50 years between 1950 and 2000, the change was not uniform. In fact, the subpolar regions cooled at the same time that subtropical and tropical waters warmed. This striking pattern can be explained largely by the influence of a natural and cyclical wind circulation p ... more Insect Attack May Have Finished Off Dinosaurs 
Corvallis OR (SPX) Jan 04, 2008Asteroid impacts or massive volcanic flows might have occurred around the time dinosaurs became extinct, but a new book argues that the mightiest creatures the world has ever known may have been brought down by a tiny, much less dramatic force - biting, disease-carrying insects. An important contributor to the demise of the dinosaurs, experts say, could have been the rise and evolution of ... more AIDS: South Africa's graveyard generation mourns 
Soweto, South Africa (AFP) Jan 3, 2008It is Saturday in Soweto and AIDS-ridden South Africa's biggest township is geared up for its foremost weekend activity: funerals. Traffic police officers are dispatched en masse to the major streets where the sheer number of funeral processions would render chaos if one had to rely on traffic lights alone. "Nowadays young people are dying like flies," reflects 27-year-old Modise Selebog ... more Naples 'suffocated' by rubbish, again 
Naples, Italy (AFP) Jan 3, 2008The Naples region was grappling Thursday with a chronic rubbish disposal problem as at least 2,000 tonnes of excess garbage piled up outside dumps and in the streets. Overburdened waste treatment centres in the impoverished southern region have been unable to handle the surplus, a scenario that has been repeated countless times over the past decade and a half. The daily La Repubblica des ... more Plate Tectonics May Take A Break 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 04, 2008Plate tectonics, the geologic process responsible for creating the Earth's continents, mountain ranges, and ocean basins, may be an on-again, off-again affair. Scientists have assumed that the shifting of crustal plates has been slow but continuous over most of the Earth's history, but a new study from researchers at the Carnegie Institution suggests that plate tectonics may have ground to a hal ... more |
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St Louis MO (SPX) Jan 03, 2008In America, helium is running out of gas. The element that lifts things like balloons, spirits and voice ranges is being depleted so rapidly in the world's largest reserve, outside of Amarillo, Texas, that supplies are expected to be depleted there within the next eight years. This deflates more than the Goodyear blimp and party favors. Its larger impact is on science and technology, accor ... more Earthquake Memory Could Spur Aftershocks 
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Jan 04, 2008Using a novel device that simulates earthquakes in a laboratory setting, a Los Alamos researcher and his colleagues have shown that seismic waves-the sounds radiated from earthquakes-can induce earthquake aftershocks, often long after a quake has subsided. The research provides insight into how earthquakes may be triggered and how they recur. In a letter appearing in Nature, Los Alamos res ... more Australia looks to GM crops after scorching 2007 
Sydney (AFP) Jan 3, 2008Australia's agriculture minister on Thursday hailed genetically modified crops as a means to help farmers combat climate change, as data showed 2007 was the country's sixth hottest year on record. Agriculture Minister Tony Burke said Australia's farmers needed to face up to climate change, foreshadowing major changes to drought relief payments worth billions of dollars. Burke said Prime ... more Nearly 50 dead in India cold snap: report 
Lucknow, India (AFP) Jan 3, 2008At least 47 people have died because of a biting cold wave sweeping northern India over the last two weeks, media reports said Thursday. The northern Uttar Pradesh state was worst hit, with 38 people freezing to death since the start of the chill in the last week of December, the Press Trust of India reported. New Delhi recorded the season's lowest temperature of 1.9 degrees Celsius (35. ... more 100-dollar crude is good and bad news for environment 
Paris (AFP) Jan 3, 2008Surging oil prices are a mixed blessing for the environment, experts say. Clean renewable energy and recycling are getting a major boost from 100-dollar-a-barrel crude -- but so are coal, a massive contributor to global warming, and nuclear power, which remains shadowed by safety concerns. Oil briefly topped 100 dollars on Wednesday, driven by escalating energy demand in China, stagnant ... more |
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Siegen, Germany (SPX) Jan 04, 2008Mobile phones, notebook computers, iPods-the boom in portable computing and communications devices is dependent on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries to deliver power. These batteries offer the highest energy density, allow laptops to function for useful amounts of time, and do not display a memory effect when compared to other types of rechargeable batteries. However, modern rechargeable batter ... more Life At The Jolt 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jan 04, 2008Researchers at the Biodesign Institute are using the tiniest organisms on the planet 'bacteria' as a viable option to make electricity. In a new study featured in the journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering, lead author Andrew Kato Marcus and colleagues Cesar Torres and Bruce Rittmann have gained critical insights that may lead to commercialization of a promising microbial fuel cell (MFC) techn ... more Analysis: Venezuelan oil production down 
Miami (UPI) Jan 3, 2008Venezuela's oil industry shrank by more than 5 percent in 2007, according to the Venezuelan National Bank, raising concerns the Venezuelan government is not investing enough of its petroleum wealth in the sector. Oil production was off 5.3 percent in 2007 from the previous year and contributed $3.14 billion to the country's gross domestic product, down from both 2006 and 2005 when the s ... more New Glonass Satellites Due To Operate For Seven Years 
Krasnoyarsk (RIA Novosti) Dec 28, 2008The three Glonass-M navigation satellites that Russia launched on Tuesday will be operational for seven years, a design and production bureau spokesman said on Wednesday. The three satellites were launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on board an improved Proton-M carrier rocket to join the existing satellite constellation, which comprises 15 operational satellites. "The eq ... more Pioneering Galileo Satellite Begins Third Year In Orbit 
Guildford, UK (SPX) Jan 03, 2008The first satellite in Europe's Galileo satellite navigation programme has achieved two years of highly successful in-orbit operation. GIOVE-A secured a crucial Galileo frequency filing with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and supported the development and validation of technology crucial to the future of Galileo. The 660kg satellite was developed by SSTL for the European ... more
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