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Dire drought ahead, may lead to massive tree deathKnoxville TN (SPX) Oct 16, 2012 Evidence uncovered by a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, geography professor suggests recent droughts could be the new normal. This is especially bad news for our nation's forests. For most, to find evidence that recent years' droughts have been record-breaking, they need not look past the withering garden or lawn. For Henri Grissino-Mayer he looks at the rings of trees over the past one thousand years. He can tell you that this drought is one of the worst in the last 600 years in America's Sou ... read more |
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  Evolution mostly driven by brawn, not brains The most common measure of intelligence in animals, brain size relative to body size, may not be as dependent on evolutionary selection on the brain as previously thought, according to a new analysi ... more | .. |
  Paul becomes major hurricane off Mexico Hurricane Paul strengthened on Monday into a "major" storm in the Pacific off Mexico's Baja peninsula, where authorities have warned residents to make quick preparations, US forecasters said. ... more | .. |
  Gene Suppression Can Reduce Cold-induced Sweetening in Potatoes Preventing activity of a key enzyme in potatoes could help boost potato quality by putting an end to cold-induced sweetening, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists. Col ... more | .. |
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 Tropical cyclones are occurring more frequently than before Are there more tropical cyclones now than in the past? - or is it just something we believe because we now hear more about them through media coverage and are better able detect them with satellites ... more | .. |
 Native Plant Fares Well in Pilot Green Roof Research Study As the implementation of green roofs increase, a University of Cincinnati pilot study examined which plants best thrive on the region's roofs during the dry, hot conditions of summer. That research, ... more | .. |
  Biodiversity conference mulls true cost of nature Should European farmers pay for pollination provided by bees? Should city dwellers in Brazil pay for the abundant rain generated over the Amazonian forest? And if mangroves are a shield against tsunamis, shouldn't seaside resorts in Thailand be paying for them? ... more | .. |
  Ebola antibody treatment, produced in plants, protects monkeys from lethal disease A new Ebola virus study resulting from a widespread scientific collaboration has shown promising preliminary results, preventing disease in infected nonhuman primates using monoclonal antibodies. ... more |
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Low-carbon energy investment hit record $2.1 tn in 2024: report
World awaits Trump tariff deadline on Canada, Mexico and China
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 Strengthening a billion-dollar gene in soybeans Soybean cyst nematode (SCN) does hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of damage each year. Matt Hudson and Brian Diers, crop sciences researchers at the University of Illinois and Andrew Bent at t ... more | .. |
 Mystery of nematode pest-resistant soybeans cracked For 50 years, the world's soybean crop has depended on the use of cyst nematode resistant varieties of beans, but no one knew how these plants fought off the nematode pests. Now, the secrets of resi ... more | .. |
 Penn Researchers Find New Way to Mimic the Color and Texture of Butterfly Wings The colors of a butterfly's wings are unusually bright and beautiful and are the result of an unusual trait; the way they reflect light is fundamentally different from how color works most of the ti ... more | .. |
 Nepal culls chickens amid bird flu outbreak Health workers in Nepal on Monday culled hundreds of chickens and destroyed eggs following an outbreak of bird flu in the capital Kathmandu, a government official said. ... more |
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 New hurricane forms over Pacific A new hurricane has formed over the Pacific off Mexico, prompting local officials to issue a tropical storm watch for parts of Baja California state, US forecasters said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Nasdaq OMX, China's Dalian Commodity team up US market operator Nasdaq OMX and Chinese firm Dalian Commodity Exchange unveiled a partnership Monday to seek new business opportunities in China and globally. ... more | .. |
  Judge scraps Amazon dam hearing A federal judge has suspended a planned hearing for fishermen and indigenous people occupying a disputed dam in Brazil's Amazon after they failed to vacate the site, developers said Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Madagascar lemurs top endangered primates list In the hit cartoon film "Madagascar", the island's lemurs are a lovable bunch of extroverts, but they are also among the world's most threatened primates, conservationists warned on Monday. ... more |
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'Not interested': Analysts sceptical about US, Russia nuclear talks
Iran says ready for nuclear talks if West is 'serious'
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 Research shows legume trees can fertilize and stabilize maize fields, generate higher yields Inserting rows of "fertilizer trees" into maize fields, known as agroforestry, can help farmers across sub-Saharan Africa cope with the impacts of drought and degraded soils, according to a 12-year- ... more | .. |
 Too much of a good thing can be bad for corals A new study by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science shows that corals may be more severely impacted by climate warming when they contain too ... more | .. |
 China to up reforestation China has plans to increase its forest coverage to 21.66 percent by 2015 in an effort to improve the country's ecological environment, an official said Sunday. ... more | .. |
 SciTechTalk: Amazon's 'razor blade' choice With the admission this week by Amazon's Jeff Bezos that the company doesn't make any money on its new Kindle Fire tablets and Paperwhite e-readers, people could be excused for asking, "Is this any way to run a business? ... more |
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 Cholera 'under control' in Iraqi Kurdistan: minister Authorities in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region said on Sunday that a fresh outbreak of cholera that left four people dead, the second in five years, has been brought under control. ... more | .. |
  Chinese dissident author savages Beijing at German awards Chinese dissident author Liao Yiwu on Sunday tore into the leadership in Beijing, describing his homeland as an "inhuman empire with bloody hands" as he scooped a prestigious German book prize. ... more | .. |
  India fights to protect its traditional home remedies For centuries, Indian housewives have used homemade remedies based on cow's milk to cure constipation - but in 2009 Swiss giant Nestle applied for a patent to protect a similar product of its own. ... more | .. |
 Taiwan butterfly pioneer laments threat to species Chen Wei-shou, the pioneer of Taiwan butterfly research, remembers being spell-bound when as a boy of six he first saw "a flower that could move". A life-long obsession had begun. ... more |
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Will the US get to Mars quicker if it drops or delays plans to visit the Moon?
Searching for Water on the Moon: UC San Diego Researchers Uncover Clues to Lunar Water's Origins
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 Former Chinese official sheds light on dark side of power "Politics is an ugly business," says an official in Chinese author Wang Xiaofang's novel, "The Civil Servant's Notebook". "You always need to keep a knife in reserve, even for your own boss." ... more | .. |
  Obama crams for debate, Romney fires China shot President Barack Obama settled into a Virginia resort Saturday, plotting to transform his pitch to voters after a lackluster first clash with Mitt Romney dampened his re-election hopes. ... more | .. |
  Nasty noises: Why do we recoil at unpleasant sounds Heightened activity between the emotional and auditory parts of the brain explains why the sound of chalk on a blackboard or a knife on a bottle is so unpleasant. In a study published in the Journa ... more | .. |
 Scientists identify trigger for explosive volcanic eruptions Scientists from the University of Southampton have identified a repeating trigger for the largest explosive volcanic eruptions on Earth. The Las Canadas volcanic caldera on Tenerife, in the Ca ... more |
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 Scientists Uncover Diversion of Gulf Stream Path in Late 2011 At a meeting with New England commercial fishermen last December, physical oceanographers Glen Gawarkiewicz and Al Plueddemann from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) were alerted by th ... more | .. |
  GMES for Europe The potential of GMES for crisis management and environmental monitoring is highlighted in a new publication with users demonstrating the importance of Earth observation data to European regions. ... more | .. |
 Scientists discover that shape matters in DNA nanoparticle therapy Researchers from Johns Hopkins and Northwestern universities have discovered how to control the shape of nanoparticles that move DNA through the body and have shown that the shapes of these carriers ... more | .. |
 Documented decrease in frequency of Hawaii's northeast trade winds Scientists at University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) have observed a decrease in the frequency of northeast trade winds and an increase in eastern trade winds over the past nearly four decades, accordi ... more |
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