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Study Explores How People Respond To Climate DisastersWaco TX (SPX) Jan 17, 2011 New results from a Baylor University study show that different behaviors and strategies lead some families to cope better and emerge stronger after a weather-related event. Dr. Sara Alexander, an applied social anthropologist at Baylor who conducts much of her research in Central America, studied different households in several coastal communities in Belize. While climate change has been an emerging topic of interest to the world community, little scientific data exists on exactly how people respo ... read more |
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  Minerals Provide Better Indoor Air One of the sources of emission for pollutants in living spaces are particleboards glued with adhesives that contain formaldehyde. There is a new method that will now provide another way to red ... more | .. |
  Lake Erie Hypoxic Zone Doesn't Affect All Fish The Same Large hypoxic zones low in oxygen long have been thought to have negative influences on aquatic life, but a Purdue University study shows that while these so-called dead zones have an adverse affect ... more | .. |
 Brazil floods a test of fire for new president The disaster unleashed by torrential rains and mudslides near Rio de Janeiro has become a test of fire for Brazil's new President Dilma Rousseff, in office less than 15 days. ... more | .. |
  Marine Le Pen: new face of French far right As well as daughter of the French National Front's founder, Marine Le Pen is also a seasoned politician who hopes, as its new leader, to polish the image of a party seen as racist. ... more |
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Fresh rain hampers Brazil rescue, death toll rises The Brazilian military sent troops and helicopters Sunday to rescue stranded survivors of floods and landslides that killed more than 625 people but the operation was stymied by more bad weather. ... more | .. |
  Earth's Hot Past Could Be Prologue To Future Climate The magnitude of climate change during Earth's deep past suggests that future temperatures may eventually rise far more than projected if society continues its pace of emitting greenhouse gases, a n ... more | .. |
  Inventions Of The Evolution: What Gives Frogs A Face "Don't be a frog!" people say in jest when someone hesitates instead of acting straight away. However to be called a frog should actually be a reason to strengthen one's self-confidence. After all f ... more | .. |
  Miscanthus Has A Fighting Chance Against Weeds University of Illinois research reports that several herbicides used on corn also have good selectivity to Miscanthus x giganteus (Giant Miscanthus), a potential bioenergy feedstock. "No herbi ... more |
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  When Continents Formed The continental crust is the principal record of conditions on the Earth for the last 4.4 billion years. Its formation modified the composition of the mantle and the atmosphere, it supports life, an ... more | .. |
  Robotic Surgery Of 'Tremendous Benefit' To Patients Robot-assisted surgery dramatically improves outcomes in patients with uterine, endometrial, and cervical cancer, said researchers at the Jewish General Hospital's Lady Davis Institute for Medical R ... more | .. |
  Radiometer Finds Sources Of Fire Forest fires usually spread out of control very quickly. Fires that produce a lot of smoke are particularly challenging for the emergency services, because the source of the fire is then especially ... more | .. |
 New Species Of Flying Reptile Identified On BC Coast Persistence paid off for a University of Alberta paleontology researcher, who after months of pondering the origins of a fossilized jaw bone, finally identified it as a new species of pterosaur, a f ... more |
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 Species Loss Tied To Ecosystem Collapse And Recovery The world's oceans are under siege. Conservation biologists regularly note the precipitous decline of key species, such as cod, bluefin tuna, swordfish and sharks. Lose enough of these top-line pred ... more | .. |
 New Predator 'Dawn Runner' Discovered In Early Dinosaur Graveyard A team of paleontologists and geologists from Argentina and the United States have announced the discovery of a lanky dinosaur that roamed South America in search of prey as the age of dinosaurs beg ... more | .. |
  Mount Etna Bursts Into Life Europe's largest active volcano, Mount Etna on the Italian island of Sicily, erupted briefly yesterday sending flames and ash hundreds of metres into the air. This image, which was acquired by ... more | .. |
 Lameness - A Common And Painful Disease In Calves At any given time between 10 and 20 percent of cattle in the United States are afflicted with lameness, making it one of the most common ailments affecting feedlot and stocker calves. That's w ... more |
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 Deep Genomics In 2003, the year a complete draft of the human genome was released, the U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute launched the ENCODE project (ENCyclopedia of DNA Elements), to develop an encyc ... more | .. |
 Researchers Inch Closer To Unlocking Potential Of Synthetic Blood A team of scientists has created particles that closely mirror some of the key properties of red blood cells, potentially helping pave the way for the development of synthetic blood. The new d ... more | .. |
  Oxygen-Free Early Oceans Likely Delayed Rise Of Life On Planet Geologists at the University of California, Riverside have found chemical evidence in 2.6-billion-year-old rocks that indicates that Earth's ancient oceans were oxygen-free and, surprisingly, contai ... more | .. |
 Engineering Team Invents Lab-On-A-Chip For Fast, Inexpensive Blood Tests While most blood tests require shipping a vial of blood to a laboratory for analysis and waiting several days for the results, a new device invented by a team of engineers and students at the Univer ... more |
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  S. Korea warship pursues hijacked vessel South Korea has ordered a warship to chase a cargo ship hijacked by suspected Somali pirates, a Seoul official said Sunday, as President Lee Myung-Bak urged "all possible measures" to rescue the 21 crew. ... more | .. |
  Indian sailors jailed in Somalia over illegal charcoal A Mogadishu court jailed 14 Indian sailors for a year for illegally exporting charcoal, court sources said Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Brazil mourns as flood death toll climbs Brazilians on Sunday prayed for victims of devastating floods near Rio de Janeiro after the death toll from the natural disaster rose to at least 610 and was predicted to climb again. ... more | .. |
Sri Lanka mine fears as floods recede Unexploded mines planted during Sri Lanka's Tamil separatist war may have shifted during recent floods, officials said Sunday, as residents started to return to their badly-damaged homes and farms. ... more |
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