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Northern Wildfires Threaten Runaway Climate ChangeGuelph, Canada (SPX) Dec 06, 2010 Climate change is causing wildfires to burn more fiercely, pumping more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than previously thought, according to a new study to be published in Nature Geosciences this week. This is the first study to reveal that fires in the Alaskan interior - an area spanning 18.5 million hectares - have become more severe in the past 10 years, and have released much more carbon into the atmosphere than was stored by the region's forests over the same period. "When most pe ... read more |
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 Subarctic wildfires a 'runaway climate change' risk Global warming is driving forest fires in northern latitudes to burn more frequently and fiercely, contributing to the threat of runaway climate change, according to a study released Sunday. ... more | .. |
  Progress seen on climate talks but disputes linger The United Nations on Sunday pointed to progress in one track of negotiations on climate change, but envoys said more headway is needed to achieve concrete progress in talks in Mexico. ... more | .. |
  Flood chaos in Balkans as Europe begins to thaw An early cold snap slowly released Europe from its icy grip Sunday after days of mayhem and dozens of deaths, but floods displaced thousands in the Balkans and chaos still hit Spanish airports. ... more | .. |
  Rains leave rising death toll in Colombia, Venezuela The toll from weeks of heavy rains across Colombia has risen to 174 people dead and over 1.5 million homeless, the Colombian Red Cross said Saturday. ... more |
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 Ecuador downgrades active volcano warning Authorities in Ecuador downgraded a warning late Saturday on a possible major eruption of the Tungurahua volcano. ... more | .. |
  Nigerian military says raids may have killed civilians Nigeria's military acknowledged Sunday that raids in pursuit of an alleged gang leader in the main oil-producing region may have killed civilians, but insisted that only militants were targeted. ... more | .. |
  India Launch Of Food Security Report Focuses On Rice The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Asia Society launched a new food security report for Asia in Mumbai, calling for increased investment in rice research. The report, Nev ... more | .. |
  Seeing The World All Depends On Differen Visual Minds Wellcome Trust scientists have shown for the first time that exactly how we see our environment depends on the size of the visual part of our brain. We are all familiar with the idea that our ... more |
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  New Research Shows Rivers Cut Deep Notches In The Alps' Broad Glacial Valleys For years, geologists have argued about the processes that formed steep inner gorges in the broad glacial valleys of the Swiss Alps. The U-shaped valleys were created by slow-moving glaciers t ... more | .. |
 Farmers Slowed Down By Hunter-Gatherers As Ancestors Fought For Land Agricultural - or Neolithic - economics replaced the Mesolithic social model of hunter-gathering in the Near East about 10,000 years ago. One of the most important socioeconomic changes in hum ... more | .. |
 Babies' Biological Clocks Dramatically Affected By Birth Light Cycle The season in which babies are born can have a dramatic and persistent effect on how their biological clocks function. That is the conclusion of a new study published online on Dec. 5 by the journal ... more | .. |
 Agriculture And International Climate Change Negotiations Not content to see farming remain outside the international climate change negotiations under way in Mexico, a broad coalition of 17 organizations will bring together more than 400 policy makers, fa ... more |
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 Rewarding Eco-Friendly Farmers Can Help Combat Climate Change Financially rewarding farmers for using the best fertilizer management practices can simultaneously benefit water quality and help combat climate change, finds a new study by the University of Maryl ... more | .. |
 Court Affirms Right Of Local Governments To Protect Farmland California's agricultural economy and culture deserve protection. That was the conclusion of the Fifth District Court of Appeal in a unanimous decision on Monday. The Court upheld a Stanislaus Count ... more | .. |
  New Findings Detail How Virus Prepares To Infect Cells Researchers have learned the atomic-scale arrangement of proteins in a structure that enables a virus to invade and fuse with host cells, showing precisely how the structure morphs with changing aci ... more | .. |
  Electrified Nano Filter Promises To Cut Costs For Clean Drinking Water With almost one billion people lacking access to clean, safe drinking water, scientists are reporting development and successful initial tests of an inexpensive new filtering technology that kills u ... more |
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  Researchers Find Mathematical Patterns To Forecast Earthquakes Researchers from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) and the Universidad de Sevilla (US) have found patterns of behaviour that occur before an earthquake on the Iberian peninsula. The team used c ... more | .. |
  Entomologists Could Shrink Dengue-Spreading Mosquito Population Each year, dengue fever infects as many as 100 million people while yellow fever is responsible for about 30,000 deaths worldwide. Both diseases are spread by infected female Aedes aegypti mosquitoe ... more | .. |
  UMass Microbiologists Evolve Microorganisms To Cooperate In New Way University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologists Derek Lovley, Zarath Summers and colleagues report in Science that they have discovered a new cooperative behavior in anaerobic bacteria, known as ... more | .. |
  Landslide buries up to 200 in Colombia: Red Cross As many as 200 people may have been buried in a landslide Sunday that swept over 10 houses near Medellin, Colombia's second largest city, Red Cross relief workers said. ... more |
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 Thousands evacuated, stranded by Australian floods Thousands of Australians were evacuated from their homes or stranded as surging floodwaters swamped towns in the area's worst deluge in 36 years, officials said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Changing climate alters age-old habits of Mexico community Members of the Mayan community of Tabi, around 200 (120 miles) kilometers southwest of Cancun on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, say changes in the weather are forcing them to change their lives. ... more | .. |
 Residents flee raging Lebanon forest fire Firefighters in Lebanon battled a forest blaze on Sunday that has raged out of control for the past week, and frightened villagers north of Beirut fled as flames threatened to engulf their homes. ... more | .. |
US supertanker joins air war on Israel blaze The world's biggest firefighting plane on Sunday joined an international offensive against the worst forest fire in Israel's history, dumping tons of water and chemicals on the flames. ... more |
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