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Russia halves fires area as weather chillsMoscow (AFP) Aug 17, 2010 Russia on Tuesday claimed to have reduced by half the area ablaze from its worst ever wildfires and averted any threat to a nuclear facility as a record heatwave finally relented. Officials said the danger from a fire raging in a nature reserve close to Russia's biggest nuclear research centre had ebbed and troops who had been brought in to fight the blaze would be withdrawn. Temperatures in Moscow, which edged 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) last week, were back down in the mid-20s ... read more |
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Atlanta (UPI) Aug 17, 2010 Arctic sea ice is shrinking due to climate change but the extent of Antarctic sea ice has grown slightly and U.S. researchers say they may have figured out why. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have presented a possible solution to the conundrum at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, ScienceDaily.com reported Tuesday. As the atmosphere warms, the ... more  
New Haven CT (SPX) Aug 17, 2010The Gondwana supercontinent underwent a 60-degree rotation across Earth's surface during the Early Cambrian period, according to new evidence uncovered by a team of Yale University geologists. Gondwana made up the southern half of Pangaea, the giant supercontinent that constituted the Earth's landmass before it broke up into the separate continents we see today. The study, which appears in ... more  
Westminster CO (SPX) Aug 17, 2010In 2003, a massive heat wave struck and killed some 30,000 people in Europe in an area where heat was not considered a major threat. Similar mass die-offs occur in wild birds and some mammals during heat waves, but unlike humans, birds may not be able to take shelter or find fresh water in order to survive devastating heat. What is the outlook for desert bird communities in light of expect ... more |
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Scientists Find The First Evidence Of Genetically Modified Plants In The WildWashington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2010 Research is continually emerging on the impacts of invasive species, pollution and environmental disasters on ecosystems and communities. Ecological scientists will discuss widespread environmental changes-from the recent discovery of genetically modified plants in the wild to the implications of mercury found in bottlenose dolphin skin, and even exploring society's reactive mode toward environmental disasters in the U.S.-at the Ecological Society of America's 95th Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh. Be ... read more |
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