Archive for the ‘climate’ Category
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
A NASA satellite designed, built and controlled by the University of Colorado at Boulder is expected to help scientists resolve wide-ranging predictions about the coming solar cycle peak in 2012 and its influence on Earth's warming climate, according to the chief scientist on the project.Senior Research Associate Tom Woods of ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
As plant species around the world go extinct, natural habitats become less productive and contain fewer total plants -- a situation that could ultimately compromise important benefits that humans get from nature. (Credit: Michele Hogan)
An international team of scientists has published a new analysis showing that as plant species around ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
One of two famous rock reliefs from this area is on the rock cliff in the left of this image. The better preserved of the two rock reliefs shows the Hittite King Muwatalli II (ca. 1290--1272 BC), opponent of Pharaoh Ramesses II in the famous Battle of Qadesh in Syria ...
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
Cirrus clouds. (Credit: NOAA Central Library, Photo by Albert E. Theberge Junior)
The widely accepted (albeit unproven) theory that manmade global warming will accelerate itself by creating more heat-trapping clouds is challenged this month in new research from The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Instead of creating more clouds, individual tropical warming ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Large-scale fires in a western or southeastern state can pump as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in a few weeks as the state's entire motor vehicle traffic does in a year, according to newly published research by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised to discover that carbon offsets are now being traded like any other financial commodity. But it makes me uneasy.
I have been investigating what has happened to the cash I gave to the Climate Care company in August to offset the carbon emissions from ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
A novel MIT study concludes that increasing levels of ozone due to the growing use of fossil fuels will damage global vegetation, resulting in serious costs to the world's economy.
The analysis, reported in the November issue of Energy Policy, focused on how three environmental changes (increases in temperature, carbon dioxide ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
The government is so short of nuclear inspectors that the programme of new reactors being planned may have to be put on hold, leaked papers show. The business secretary, John Hutton, yesterday warned Gordon Brown that the government has only five inspectors working on the design assessments of the three ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
A rare Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis), one of only an estimated 30 left in the wild has been captured and health-checked by experts from a consortium of conservation organizations, before being released.
Representatives from a group of organizations, including the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Biology and Soils, the ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Studying childhood cancer patients who have suffered tissue and organ damage from chemotherapy treatments, researchers have found that growth hormones can reverse damage to the heart. Before the children started growth-hormone treatment their heart walls were very thin. Within weeks of starting it, the walls became thicker and their heart ...
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