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Polar Bears Extinction Can Be AvertedWashington DC (SPX) Dec 16, 2010 Polar bears were added to the threatened species list nearly three years ago when their icy habitat showed steady, precipitous decline because of a warming climate. But it appears the Arctic icons aren't necessarily doomed after all, according to results of a study published in this week's issue of the journal Nature. The findings indicate that there is no "tipping point" that would result in unstoppable loss of summer sea ice when greenhouse gas-driven warming rises above a certain threshol ... read more |
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 Keeping Tabs On Arctic Seals A novel project using cameras mounted on unmanned aircraft flying over the Arctic is serving double duty by assessing the characteristics of declining sea ice and using the same aerial photos to pin ... more | .. |
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  Clinton attacks slow Haiti quake progress Former US president Bill Clinton criticized the slow pace of reconstruction in quake-hit Haiti and pressed Haitian officials to agree to his plans to speed things up. ... more | .. |
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 Inter-species mating could doom polar bear: experts Climate change is pushing Arctic mammals to mate with cousin species, in a trend that could be pushing the polar bear and other iconic animals towards extinction, biologists said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Tearful homecoming for Pakistan flood survivors Hajani Chandio broke down in tears when she came home after three months in a refugee camp following the catastrophic floods that ravaged Pakistan earlier this year. ... more | .. |
  US environmentalists sue ExxonMobile over air pollution Two US environmental groups announced a lawsuit against oil giant ExxonMobil, claiming the company's Houston, Texas-area oil refinery and chemical plant complex has generated illegal amounts of air pollution. ... more | .. |
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 Oldest Fossils Found In Cordillera Betica Mountain Range Spanish researchers have found fossils of Ordovician conodonts dating to between 446 and 444 million years ago for the first time in the western Mediterranean. The discovery of these very prim ... more | .. |
 Bering Sea Was Ice-Free And Full Of Life During Last Warm Period Deep sediment cores retrieved from the Bering Sea floor indicate that the region was ice-free all year and biological productivity was high during the last major warm period in Earth's climate histo ... more | .. |
  Array Of Arrays Coaxing Secrets From Unfelt Seismic Tremor Events Every 15 months or so, an unfelt earthquake occurs in western Washington and travels northward to Canada's Vancouver Island. The episode typically releases as much energy as a magnitude 6.5 earthqua ... more | .. |
 EU's 'mackerel war' with Iceland heats up The European Union could block Iceland's fishing boats from unloading mackerel in European ports unless a fishing row is resolved, a source close to the European Commission said Tuesday. ... more |
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  Facebook intern maps world via online 'friends' A Facebook intern interested in seeing how political borders affect friendships around the globe has created a map of the world by sampling data from the social network's 500 million user base. ... more | .. |
  Storm uncovers Roman-era statue in Israel A massive storm that battered the eastern Mediterranean caused the collapse of a cliff in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, revealing a rare Roman-era marble statue, officials said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Hot With Decades Of Drought: Expectations For The Southwest An unprecedented combination of heat plus decades of drought could be in store for the Southwest sometime this century, suggests new research from a University of Arizona-led team. To come to ... more | .. |
 A Study Analyzes The Movement Of Tree Sap The researchers decided to embark on this study in order to find out which mechanisms are used by plants when they extract water from very dry or somewhat inhospitable land. "In the case of ma ... more |
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 Cadillac Desert Withstands The Test Of Time And Technology In 1986, Marc Reisner published "Cadillac Desert: The American West and its disappearing water," a foundational work about the long-term environmental costs of U.S. western state's water projects an ... more | .. |
 Despite Cancun deal, US shifts away on climate A new international accord on global warming has heartened environmentalists, but casting a shadow is the political shift in the United States where legislative climate efforts died in 2010. ... more | .. |
 Scientists Unravel More Details Of Plant Cell-Wall Construction One big challenge in converting plants to biofuels is that the very same molecules that keep plants standing up make it hard to break them down. Now scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DO ... more | .. |
 Arrests in Greece over disputed waste landfill Police in Greece have arrested seven people after coming under attack near Athens by outraged residents opposing the construction of a waste dump, officials said on Thursday. ... more |
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