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El Nino May Have Helped Magellan Cross The Pacific Ocean
Raleigh NC (SPX) May 19, 2008A new paper by North Carolina State University archaeologist Dr. Scott Fitzpatrick shows that Ferdinand Magellan's historic circumnavigation of the globe was likely influenced in large part by unusual weather conditions - including what we now know as El Nino - which eased his passage across the Pacific Ocean, but ultimately led him over a thousand miles from his intended destination. ... more Earth Impacts Linked To Human-Caused Climate Change 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 19, 2008A new NASA-led study shows that human-caused climate change has impacted a wide range of Earth's natural systems, from permafrost thawing to plants blooming earlier across Europe to lakes declining in productivity in Africa. Cynthia Rosenzweig of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Science in New York and scientists at 10 other institutions have linked physical and biological impacts since ... more New Findings On Oceanic Nitrogen Levels 
Norwich, UK (SPX) May 19, 2008As much as a third of the nitrogen entering the world's oceans from the atmosphere is man-made, according to new findings by an international team of scientists. This has significant implications for global climate change because the nitrogen causes increased marine biological activity and CO2 uptake, which in turn produces the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N20). Published in the ... more Studies Unveil Greenhouse Processes Back 800000 Years 
Corvallis OR (SPX) May 19, 2008The newest analysis of trace gases trapped in Antarctic ice cores now provide a reasonable view of greenhouse gas concentrations as much as 800,000 years into the past, and are further confirming the link between greenhouse gas levels and global warming, scientists reported in the journal Nature. They also show that during that entire period of time, there have never been concentrations of ... more Over Three Million Burmese Potentially Affected By Cyclone 
Baltimore MD (SPX) May 19, 2008As many as 3.2 million Burmese are estimated to be affected by the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis, according to geographic risk models developed by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Lehman College, CUNY. Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), the researchers calculated the likely distribution of the population of Burma ... more |
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Durham, UK (SPX) May 19, 2008Scientists from Durham University will use robots to explore the depths of the Atlantic Ocean to study the growth of underwater volcanoes that build the Earth's crust. The Durham experts will lead an international team of 12 scientists aboard Britain's Royal Research Ship James Cook which will set sail from Ponta Delgada, San Miguel, in the Azores on Friday, May 23. During the five-week ... more Warming Climate Is Changing Life On A Global Scale 
New York NY (SPX) May 19, 2008A vast array of physical and biological systems across the earth are being affected by warming temperatures caused by humans, says a new analysis of information not previously assembled all in one spot. The effects on living things include earlier leafing of trees and plants over many regions; movements of species to higher latitudes and altitudes in the northern hemisphere; changes in ... more Wildlife numbers plummet globally: WWF 
London (AFP) May 16, 2008The world's wildlife populations have reduced by around a quarter since the 1970s, according to a major report published Friday by the WWF conservation organization. Marine species have been particularly hard hit as the human population booms, while numbers of birds and, fish and animals have also gone down, said the WWF in a report. The study comes ahead of next week's UN convention on ... more New clean air rules may endanger parks 
Washington (UPI) May 16, 2008 National parks and wilderness areas may soon have neighboring power plants under a proposed set of air quality rules from U.S. officials, scientists say. Environmental engineer Don Shepherd said the proposed changes by U.S. President George Bush's administration to the Clean Air Act could potentially create 28 new power plants near 10 national parks and pose a significant risk to such ... more Food and climate fears combine to put focus on global biodiversity 
Paris (AFP) May 17, 2008In the midst of a global food crisis, experts from around world gather Monday in the German city of Bonn for a marathon conference aimed at ending the destruction of countless plant and animal species. While the extinction of mammals or sea-life have long caught the public imagination, pressing concerns over food prices and stocks, allied to global awareness of the dangers of climate change ... more |
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Chengdu, China (AFP) May 18, 2008Two US military planes carrying aid flew Sunday into southwestern China, the first time Beijing has accepted help from foreign troops since the earthquake struck, officials said. The C-17 aircraft carrying food, electricity generators, blankets and other goods flew into Chengdu, the capital of worst-hit Sichuan province. One arrived in the morning and a second was expected to arrive in ... more Tropical storm Halong lashes northern Philippines: officials 
Manila (AFP) May 18, 2008Tropical storm Halong battered the northern Philippines on Sunday with powerful winds triggering floods and landslides and displacing about 6,000 people, relief officials said. There were no immediate reports of casualties but the civil defence office in Manila said huge waves known as storm surges destroyed 23 houses and 12 fishing boats while displacing 845 people in the towns of Iba and ... more Three European nations warn Turkey over Ilisu dam construction 
Vienna (AFP) May 17, 2008Three European nations on Saturday threatened to oppose credit guarantees for construction of the Ilisu dam in Turkey if Ankara disregards environmental and social commitments linked to the project. Economy ministers for Germany, Austria and Switzerland issued the threat over the massive project as they met in Duernstein, Austria. The three nations had initially approved guarantees to ... more Nationalism imbues China quake volunteer drive 
Shimen, China (AFP) May 18, 2008Eight Chinese in their early 20s made their way up a winding mountain road, stopping at each new quake-ravaged peasant home to help the injured. They said they were doing it for China. "Anyone hurt in there?" they shouted at a house reduced to a heap of bricks and timber by Monday's disaster. When an old woman emerged, two of the young treated her ankle injury with disinfectant and bandages. ... more From 'gay plague' to global tragedy: An AIDS anniversary 
Paris (AFP) May 18, 2008The campaign against AIDS marks an important anniversary this week, bringing to mind victories of science and the human spirit but also defeats, stigma and ignorance in a combat that has claimed more lives than World War I. On May 20 1983, in a paper published in the US journal Science, a team from France's Pasteur Institute, led by Luc Montagnier, described a suspect virus found in a ... more
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