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Melting Greenland Ice Sheets May Threaten Northeast USA And Canada Boulder CO (SPX) May 28, 2009 A melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet this century may drive more water than previously thought toward the already threatened coastlines of New York, Boston, Halifax, and other cities in the northeastern United States and Canada, new research shows. The study finds that if Greenland ice melts at moderate to high rates, ocean circulation by 2100 may shift and cause sea levels off the north ... read more Well Water Should Be Tested Annually To Reduce Health Risks Washington DC (SPX) May 28, 2009 Private well water should be tested yearly, and in some cases more often, according to new guidance offered by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, took a lead role in working with the AAP to develop these recommendations and draft a new AAP policy statement about the t ... more |
Australian 'green' hydrogen project under threat
Norway nears 100% goal of all-electric cars CORRECTED: Electric cars take 96% of Norway market in January CORRECTED: Electric cars make up 96% of Norway's new cars in January CORRECTED Electric cars take 96% of Norway market in January Wildfires burning in Argentine Patagonia kills man, hundreds evacuate Flooding in Sicily as month's rain falls in four hours Greece on high alert as quakes shake Santorini island Global warming makes French reservoir a winter resort for migrating cranes
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Shellfish Face An Uncertain Future In A High CO2 World Edgewater MD (SPX) May 28, 2009 Overfishing and disease have decimated shellfish populations in many of the world's temperate estuarine and coastal ecosystems. Smithsonian scientists, led by Whitman Miller, ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md., have discovered another serious threat to these valuable filter feeders-rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide that contribute to the acidif ... more Permafrost melt poses long-term threat, says study Paris (AFP) May 27, 2009 Melting permafrost could eventually disgorge a billion tonnes a year of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, accelerating the threat from climate change, scientists said Wednesday. Their probe sought to shed light on a fiercely-debated but poorly-understood concern: the future of organic matter that today is locked up in the frozen soil of Alaska, Canada, northern Europe and Siberia. ... more Japan funds Philippines' typhoon alert upgrade Manila (AFP) May 27, 2009 Japan on Wednesday extended a two billion-peso (42.3 million-dollar) grant to the Philippines to help it improve its defences against deadly typhoons, the Filipino government said. The grant package from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) includes funding for a 1.6 billion-peso project to replace three meteorological alert systems along the country's Pacific Ocean coast. ... more 47-Million-year-old Fossil Could Shed Light On Primate Family Tree St. Louis MO (SPX) May 28, 2009 A 47-million-year-old primate fossil, a purported "missing link" between primates and humans, was unveiled this week in New York. The fossil, formally called Darwinius masillae but nicknamed Ida, could, due to it being an essentially whole skeleton, shed light on the construction of the primate family tree, says an expert on primate evolution at Washington University in St. Louis. ... more |
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SPACE ISAC expands member benefits with access to new testbeds network
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 31, 2025 The Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Space ISAC) has announced a major new benefit for its members: access to the Accelerating Space Capabilities 100 (ASC-100), an international networ ... more Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 The first trial of CRACO, a cutting-edge Australian-developed technology, has uncovered mysterious cosmic objects by analyzing space signals with unprecedented precision. Developed by astronom ... more Seoul (AFP) Jan 31, 2025 Data watchdogs in South Korea and Ireland said Friday they would ask Chinese AI startup DeepSeek to clarify how it manages users' personal information, as governments from around the world turned a spotlight on the service. ... more
UK's first AI classroom without teachers sparks debate
London (AFP) Jan 28, 2025 Britain's first teacherless AI classroom may be an "outlier", but it underlines the potential benefits and risks of a UK government drive to rollout artificial intelligence in education, experts say. ... more Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 03, 2025 The question of what defines life continues to challenge the biological sciences, with its vast complexity and diversity making it difficult to distill into a single definition. A new study proposes ... more Tokyo (AFP) Feb 3, 2025 US tech giant OpenAI on Monday unveiled a ChatGPT tool called "deep research" that can produce detailed reports, as China's DeepSeek chatbot heats up competition in the AI field. ... more |
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Fast And Cheap Forecasting System For Mediterranean Cyclones Madrid, Spain (SPX) May 28, 2009 The Mediterranean region is a very active cyclone area, and is often affected by these atmospheric phenomena, which bring strong winds and heavy rain. Despite the efforts of the scientific community to improve numerical cyclone prediction, the systems developed are costly. "Sensitivity studies are a low-cost and efficient way of establishing the best kinds of observation strategies", Loren ... more China ready to cooperate with US on climate change: report Beijing (AFP) May 27, 2009 China is ready to strengthen its cooperation with the United States to combat climate change, Premier Wen Jiabao told US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday, state media reported. "China will cement policy dialogue with the United States, take the joint tackling of climate change as an important aspect of cooperation and push for positive results in the Copenhagen Climate Change ... more Australia braced for swine flu surge as Asian cases rise Hong Kong (AFP) May 27, 2009 The human swine flu toll in Asia grew Wednesday as Australia's infections more than doubled and Japan and South Korea announced new cases, helping to push the global total to almost 13,000. Singapore confirmed its first case while Hong Kong, where Asia's first infection from the A(H1N1) virus sparked a week-long quarantine of around 300 guests and staff at a city hotel, announced a fresh to ... more Microfossils Challenge Prevailing Views Of The Effects Of Snowball Earth Santa Barbara CA (SPX) May 28, 2009 New fossil findings discovered by scientists at UC Santa Barbara challenge prevailing views about the effects of "Snowball Earth" glaciations on life, according to an article in the June issue of the journal Nature Geoscience. By analyzing microfossils in rocks from the bottom of the Grand Canyon, the authors have challenged the view that has been generally assumed to be correct for the ... more |
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