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Comet trail may have caused last ice ageCardiff, England, April 2, 2009 A thousand-year freeze that began in 11,000 B.C. may have been caused by thousands of atomic-force chunks from a disintegrating comet, a British scientist said. The fragments, each hitting with the force of a 1-megaton nuclear bomb, triggered fires that covered whole continents and filled the atmosphere with smoke and soot that blotted out the sun, said Bill Napier, a professor at Cardiff University Astrobiology Center. Napier said Earth may have strayed into a dense trail of fragments ... read more |
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Berlin, April 2, 2009 Few would have predicted some years ago that the Arctic would become a boom region - but that's exactly what has happened. Climate change is causing Arctic ice sheets to melt, with the oceans in the region possibly ice-free during the summer months. This is opening a new Atlantic-Pacific shipping channel and makes the natural resources lying under the seabed more accessible. Nat ... more  
Khartoum, Sudan, April 2, 2009 Sudan is lurching toward renewed civil strife after the main opposition challenger accused the Khartoum government of rigging the vote and withdrew from next week's presidential election. Several of the biggest opposition parties in Sudan, Africa's largest state, allege widespread irregularities and said they will boycott the poll, the country's first multi-party vote since 1986. ... more  
Cambridge, UK (SPX) Mar 31, 2010Scientists from Cambridge, London and Melbourne have found the first ever evidence that tyrannosaur dinosaurs existed in the southern continents. They identified a hip bone found at Dinosaur Cove in Victoria, Australia as belonging to an ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex. The find sheds new light on the evolutionary history of this group of dinosaurs. It also raises the crucial question of why ... more |
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Mixed reaction for Obama's drilling planWashington (UPI) April 2, 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama's new oil drilling strategy has drawn a range of support and criticism. The plan, announced Wednesday, would expand oil and natural gas drilling to the Atlantic Coast, parts of the eastern Gulf of Mexico and areas in Alaska. "I think this is a significant and important step forward, something that surely will help us as a country to produce more of our own energy," Marvin Odum, president of Shell Oil Co., said at a news conference to announce the start of prod ... read more |
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