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Ten key indicators show global warming |
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Melting glaciers, more humid air and eight other key indicators show that global warming is undeniable, scientists said on Wednesday, citing a new comprehensive review of the last decade of climate data. - Scientific American |
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Phytoplankton Population Drops 40 Percent Since 1950 |
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The microscopic plants that form the foundation of the ocean\'s food web are declining, reports a study published July 29 in Nature.
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World\'s oldest living creatures found in Scottish fiel... |
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Two colonies of age-old and endangered tadpole shrimps discovered alive and well near Solway coast. A field near Gretna in Dumfriesshire might not be an obvious place to find the world\'s oldest living creatures, but a team of scientists has done just that. Two colonies of a prehistoric shrimp that ...
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New evidence on sea levels and fish behaviour underline... |
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New evidence suggesting sea levels will rise to double expected levels this century and that fewer baby fish will grow successfully to maturity in more acidified oceans underline the urgent need for decisive action on climate change, WWF said today.
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Climate change commitments |
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The G8 stated in 2009 that they would take the lead to ensure global and national emission peaks could take place as soon as possible. They recognized that an increase in global average temperature shouldn\'t exceed 2 degrees C.
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Saving the giant panda |
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The lesson from a recent accidental panda death is that the endangered species\' best chance of survival comes not from zoos but from extensive environmental stewardship. - L.A. Times - Environment |
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India approves plans to reintroduce cheetah |
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Eighteen cheetahs to be imported from Iran, Namibia and South Africa more than 60 years after the species was hunted to extinction. The cheetah is to return to India, more than 60 years after the last three were shot dead by hunters on the subcontinent. Indian minister for the environment and forest...
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Greenland Bedrock Could Reveal Climate Future |
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After five years of drilling to find clues to a past climate warming, scientists finally hit bedrock in Greenland some 1.6 miles down.
- Discovery News - Earth News |
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Global warming pushes 2010 temperatures to record highs |
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Scientists from two leading climate research centres publish \'best evidence yet\' of rising long-term global temperatures.
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Oceanography: Century of phytoplankton change |
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Phytoplankton biomass is a crucial measure of the health of ocean ecosystems. An impressive synthesis of the relevant data, stretching back to more than 100 years ago, provides a connection with climate change. - Nature - Issue - nature.com sc |
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Lost Arctic ship found 150 years after it was abandoned |
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The ship credited with discovering the Northwest Passage, has been discovered in good condition after being abandoned more than 150 years ago in the Arctic ice.
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Afghan Climber Aims for Top of Everest |
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Nadjib Sirat is well aware of the risks he will face during his attempt to scale Mount Everest, a mountain that researchers say claims at least one life for every 10 expeditions.
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Deepest Hydrothermal Vent Offers Alien Life Model |
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Three distinct types of hydrothermal vents, including the deepest vent yet observed, were discovered along a 100 kilometer long strip in the Caribbean Sea. - Discovery News - Earth News |
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Floating Glaciers |
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“This study presents the first detailed observation of the transition from grounded to floating glaciers, which is currently ongoing at Columbia Glacier, one of Alaska\'s many tidewater glaciers. Tidewater glaciers flow directly into the ocean, ending at a cliff in the sea, where icebergs are formed... - Geology News |
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Monitoring Changes in Thawing Permafrost |
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“Among the worrisome environmental effects of global warming is the thawing of Arctic permafrost. A new study approach, relies on chemical tracers in stream water.” Quoted from the University of Michigan press release. - Geology News |
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Expedition to Mid-Cayman Rise identifies unusual variet... |
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Expedition to Mid-Cayman Rise identifies unusual variety of deep sea vents. (ScienceDaily.com)
- Ocean Today |
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10 places to visit before they vanish |
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Whether it\'s rising sea levels, desertification, torrential monsoons, melting glaciers or ocean acidification, climate change is rapidly altering the landscape of our planet. We may be one of the last generations to see some of the Earth\'s most cherished places.
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Storm strikes Grand Teton climbers |
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Rangers were conducting a high-altitude rescue in Grand Teton National Park after several climbing parties got caught in a lightning storm. - The Seattle Times |
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Archaeologists unearth Neolithic henge at Stonehenge |
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Archaeologists have discovered a second henge at Stonehenge, described as the most exciting find there in 50 years. - BBC News | UK | UK Edition |
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Appalachian Trail Could Be Extended Across Internationa... |
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Hiking enthusiasts are interested in extending the Appalachian Trail along its proper geological trajectory across international boundaries.
- Discovery News - Earth News |
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Moon Rock Mineral Hints at Watery Lunar Past |
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A mineral found in a volcanic rock from the moon\'s surface was discovered to contain elements that could point to a \"wetter\" climate in the moon\'s past, according to the researchers of a new study. - SPACE.com |
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Holographic radar U of Florence |
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Researchers at Italy\'s University of Florence test their holographic radar device to detect landmines. - Scientific American |
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In the Desert, Finding Answers About Ice |
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A new window into the deep past offers a glimpse into the future of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and rise of sea level around the world.
- Discovery News - Top Stories |
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Bowls of Fingers, Baby Victims, More Found in Maya Tomb |
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With bowls of human fingers, a burned baby, and jeweled teeth, a Maya king\'s tomb is rich in oddities and archaeological gold.
- National Geographic News |
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NASA Mercury Messenger Finds Surprises |
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Volcanic deposits were identified in the double-ring Rachmaninoff crater.Images suggest that Mercury was volcanically active well into its middle age, given that it formed 4.5 billion years ago with the rest of the solar system.
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Palouse earthworm gets second look for protection |
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The Center for Biological Diversity says the federal Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to take another look at whether the giant Palouse earthworm deserves protection as an endangered species. - The Seattle Times |
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Is the cure (geoengineering) worse than the disease (gl... |
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If there\'s one thing more potentially contentious than the international politics of global warming (which the world has spent at least the past 20-plus years dithering about), it\'s the politics of the most radical suggestion to solve it: geoengineering . After all, he who controls Earth\'s the...
- Scientific American |
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Parasitic Wasp Swarm Unleashed to Fight Pests |
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A huge \"army\" of parasitic wasps was unleashed in Thailand on Saturday to control a devastating mealybug outbreak, scientists say.
- National Geographic News |
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What Does the Seep Mean for the Gulf? |
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The broken well in the Gulf of Mexico has been capped. A new seep has been detected nearby that could be natural, or a worrying sign that the worst is yet to come. - Discovery News - Earth News |
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Feds to consider endangered status for whitebark |
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The federal government will consider whether a high-elevation pine tree devastated by beetles and fungus deserves endangered species protection. - The Seattle Times |
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Warriors Project Excavations at Pine Springs Camp |
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The history of the Warriors Project excavations at Pine Springs Camp begins in 2002.
- About.com Archaeology: What's |
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Texas Archaeological Society Field School, 1970 |
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Excavations at the Buffalo Soldiers camp called Pine Springs, in the Guadalupe Mountains of West Texas.
- About.com Archaeology: What's |
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Scientists assess impact of Icelandic volcanic ash on o... |
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An international team of oceanographers investigating the role of iron on ocean productivity in the northerly latitudes of the Atlantic Ocean will assess the impact of ash from the recent Icelandic volcano eruption on ocean biology. The five-week expedition started out on July 4, 2010. - ScienceDaily: Latest Science N |
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Local climber & author chronicles two of the darkest da... |
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Freddie Wilkinson tells the \'Untold Story of Tragedy and True Heroism on K2\' by By Linda Tucker Freddie Wilkinson, an accomplished professional climber, is also the author of \'One Mountain Thousand Summits, which chronicles the story behind two tragic days on K2 in 2008 which ended with the death...
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BP chokes off the oil leak; now begins the wait |
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BP finally choked off the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday _ 85 days and up to 184 million gallons after the crisis unfolded—then began a tense 48 hours of watching to see whether the capped-off well would hold or blow a new leak.
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Ship junked 200 years ago uncovered at WTC site |
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NEW YORK—The ship was buried as junk two centuries ago _ landfill to expand a bustling little island of commerce called Manhattan. When it re-emerged this week, surrounded by skyscrapers, it was an instant treasure that popped up from the mud near ground zero. - http://universe.byu.edu/feeds/ |
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Archaeologists: Florida reef may be slave ship cemetery... |
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Gulf\'s coastal wetlands surviving despite oil |
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From a seaplane 1,000 feet above Louisiana\'s coastal wetlands, the places hit hardest by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are easy to spot— dark slashes marring a vast expanse of marshes and bayous.
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Acidified Waters in Puget Sound |
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Scientists have discovered that the water chemistry in the Hood Canal and the Puget Sound main basin is becoming more acidified, or corrosive, as the ocean absorbs more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. - Geology News |
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Melting Glaciers Imperil Some —But Not All—Asian Rivers |
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Melting glaciers in Asia could cause food shortages for up to 60 million people who live in the region\'s major river basins, a new study finds.But the research, published yesterday in Science , found that the shrinking glaciers will have less of an impact on Asia\'s freshwater supply than est...
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Mars, the Other |
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Scientists believe that 3.5 billion years ago Mars hosted an ocean that covered one third of the planet\'s surface - Discovery News - Earth News |
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Deepwater spill survey: Contaminated Gulf kills thousan... |
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Editor\'s Note: A team of researchers led by John Kessler , Texas A&M College of Geosciences chief scientist and assistant oceanography professor, has traveled to the Deepwater Horizon disaster site to study the methane leaking into the Gulf of Mexico (along with tens thousands of barrels of cr...
- Scientific American |
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Thunderstone mystery: What\'s a Stone Age axe doing in ... |
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What\'s a Stone Age axe doing in an Iron Age tomb? Archaeologists are now researching older objects in younger graves and they have found a pattern.
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Study: Airplanes Can Trigger Snowfall |
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When conditions are right, a jet or turboprop airplane traveling through a cloud can cause it to snow, according to a study in this month\'s Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Airplanes that penetrate altocumulus clouds containing supercooled droplets of water can cause some of the moi... - AVwebFlash Current Issue |
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Astronauts and cosmonaut blast off |
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Two US astronauts and a Russian crew-mate blasted off successfully on a mission to the international space station that will see the last ever shuttle visit to the orbiting lab.
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Boulder\'s The Last Ocean Project builds awareness of t... |
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The Ross Sea is recognized by scientists as the most pristine open-ocean ecosystem left on earth. And a Boulder group is working to keep it that way by drawing attention to the deep bay in Antarctica.
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Antarctica\'s underwater algae forests |
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Huge mats of algal growth on the western of coast of Antarctica are being studied by marine biologists for their potential to treat cancer. - Environment news, comment and |
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Archaeologist finds World Cup \'omen\' badge |
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Archaeologist discovers 800 year-old badge emblazoned with three lions.
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Ancient Fossils Show Arctic Now Near Climate Tipping Po... |
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Current levels of Earth\'s atmospheric carbon dioxide may be high enough to bring about \"irreversible\" shifts in Arctic ecosystems, according to new research published today by scientists from the United States, Canada and The Netherlands. - ENS |
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An Unconventional Archaeologist in our midst |
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Tacoma-based archaeologist/Egyptologist Donald P. Ryan, a part-time faculty member at Pacific Lutheran University, has a passion for his work that comes through in his book "Beneath the Sands of Egypt: Adventures of an Unconventional Archaeologist." - The Seattle Times: Home |
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NOAA Ship Explores Undersea Volcano More Than 10,000-ft... |
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In the first week of a joint Indonesia—U.S. exploration of the deep ocean north of Sulawesi, Indonesia, NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorers built-in multibeam sonar mapped a huge undersea volcano while cameras on the ships remotely-operated vehicle took high-definition images of the feature called Kawio Bar...
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Big chunk of Greenland glacier breaks off |
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Seven-square miles of a Greenland glacier broke up on July 6 and 7, moving the edge of the glacier a mile inland in one day, the furthest inland it has ever been observed. While such calving of glaciers isn\'t rare, seeing it happen at high resolution by satellite in almost real time is.
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Ancient Italian artifacts get the blues |
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A mysterious blue sheen that is creeping over precious archaeological artifacts has sparked a political firestorm in Italy.
- Scientific American |
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Pictures: Secret Tunnel Explored in Pharaoh\'s Tomb |
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Archaeologists have finally discovered what lies at the end of a tunnel leading steeply downward from a 3,300-year-old royal tomb.
- National Geographic News |
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An archaeologist digs through her life |
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At 94, Halet Çambel is seen as a \'scientific hero\' in Turkey.
- NatureNews - Archaeology and a |
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Tiny shard bears oldest script found in Jerusalem |
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Archaeologists say a newly discovered clay fragment from the 14th century B.C. is the oldest example of writing ever found in antiquity-rich Jerusalem. - Boston.com -- Latest news |
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Polar Rare: The Arctic's apex predator could disappear ... |
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Canada\'s western Hudson Bay could lose its population of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in as little as a decade, according to new research by biologist Andrew Derocher and others from the University of Alberta (U.A.).
- Scientific American |
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Solar-powered plane takes off on test flight |
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An experimental solar-powered plane whose makers hope to one day circle the globe using only energy collected from the sun took off for its first 24-hour test flight today.
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Old Bones Yield a New Age of Dinosaurs in Thailand |
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BAAN NA KUM, Thailand — When the rains come and the rivers swell, giant bones tend to wash up in this remote rice-farming corner of Thailand.
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Indonesia and U.S. Launch Deep-Sea Expedition |
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The first joint expedition by the Republic of Indonesia and the United States to explore unknown deep-sea areas in Indonesian waters is under way. This expedition is the first activity in a multi-year partnership to advance ocean science, technology and education.
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Meet the mummies |
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A new exhibition in the US puts on display an incredible array of mummies and only a few from Egypt. A 4,500-year-old Peruvian child, an 18th-century Hungarian family and a German nobleman dead since 1648 and still in his top boots: it\'s a motley cast that figures in the largest traveling collectio...
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Inactive fault may trigger big quake after all |
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A seismic fault in the Sierra Nevada, believed to have been quiet for more than 3 million years, is active after all and capable of triggering strong quakes with magnitudes of 6 or even 7, scientists say. The Kern Canyon Fault, stretching for nearly 90 miles.
- SFGate: Top News Stories |
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Human Impacts on Ocean Chemistry |
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An article on the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution website explores how the actions of humans have modified ocean chemistry.
- Geology News |
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Geo-neutrinos: Discovery of subatomic particles could a... |
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An international team has detected subatomic particles -- geo-neutrinos -- deep within Earth\'s interior. The discovery could help geologists understand how reactions taking place in the planet\'s interior affect events on the surface such as earthquakes and volcanoes. Someday, scientists may know e...
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From Museum Basement, a New Dinosaur |
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A paleontologists chose a name for an unknown dinosaur genus that has brought him more publicity than any of his other discoveries.
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Circumnavigation |
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Thursday, Ken Evers and Tim Pryse returned to Australia, becoming the first Australians to circumnavigate the earth in an Australian-designed and built airplane, the Airvan GA8-TC, but they also had a greater cause. The trip was intended to raise awareness of malaria and raise money for malaria prev...
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Archaeologists unveil tortoise's slow walk to pet statu... |
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The earliest archaeological evidence of a tortoise kept as a family pet in Britain is unearthed by researchers.
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How Much Plastic is in the Ocean? |
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The first estimate of how much plastic is in the global ocean has yielded some staggering numbers.
- Discovery News - Earth News |
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sailworldcruint: SailWorld CruInt Another cruising fami... |
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Sinornithosaurus Probably Wasn’t Venomous After All |
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Every now and then, I come across a study that makes me hope my first doubtful impression is wrong and that the authors have better evidence to back up their claims. One such case was the hypothesis that the feathered dinosaur Sinornithosaurus had a venomous bite, as was proposed by scientists Enpu ...
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Marmot meltdown averted: Vancouver Island species on th... |
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Biologists in Canada are encouraged that critically endangered Vancouver Island marmots ( Marmota vancouverensis ) are once again learning how to be marmots--a tough task since the species\'s population had crashed so far that the animals almost lost the knowledge of how to exist as a society.
- Scientific American |
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On Our Radar: Toxic Cleanup in Germany |
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German officials pledge a cleanup of one of Europe\'s most toxic sites: a leaking nuclear waste dump in a former salt mine. - NYT > Environment |
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Concerns Spread over Environmental Costs of Producing S... |
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Around suppertime on June 3 in Clearfield County, Pa., a geyser of natural gas and sludge began shooting out of a well called Punxsutawney Hunting Club 36. The toxic stew of gas, salt water, mud and chemicals went 75 feet into the air for 16 hours. Some of this mess seeped into a stream northeast of...
- Scientific American |
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Arctic Hydrologic Cycle is Accelerating |
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The volume of fresh water moving through the hydrologic cycle in the Arctic is steadily increasing – the expected result under an environment of warming.
- Geology News |
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Oceanographic linkages indicate an alternative route fo... |
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European eel larvae are generally believed to initially follow a westerly drift route into the Gulf Stream, but new research results on bio-physical linkages in the Sargasso Sea point to a shorter route towards Europe.
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Tyrannosaurus Didn’t Have the Nerve to Run Fast |
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It was one of the most memorable scenes in Jurassic Park– a hungry Tyrannosaurus rex chasing after Ian Malcolm, Ellie Sattler and Robert Muldoon as they make their escape in a Jeep. It was also among the moments that probably made paleontologists in the audience facepalm. - Dinosaur Tracking |
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The Gear Junkie: Tech Watches |
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The Gear Junkie reviews the Suunto Vector HR and Timex Expedition E-Altimeter watches.
- The Outside Blog |
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China: Deep Sea Research Plans |
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An article in NatureNews explores some of China’s current and potential research activities related to basic ocean science and deep sea resources.
- Geology News |
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Archeologists explore rural Galilee and find ancient sy... |
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Among various important discoveries, the 2010 Kinneret Regional Project discovered an ancient synagogue, in use at around 400 AD. This year\'s archeological focus is the first systematic excavation on Horvat Kur, a village inhabited from the Early Roman through the Early Medieval periods located on ... - ScienceDaily: Latest Science N |
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Antique Turkish grenade found in Jerusalem walls |
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JERUSALEM: Israeli archaeologists renovating the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City found an explosive surprise — a 100-year-old Ottoman hand grenade hidden in a crevice. The device, which contained more than 200 grams of explosives, was discovered earlier this week as archaeologists were replacing a dam... - News |
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More than 25% of flowers face extinction |
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Scientists say human activity could spell end for a quarter of all flowering plants, with huge impact on food chain. More than one-in-four of all flowering plants are under threat of extinction according to the latest report to confirm the ongoing destruction of much of the natural world by human ac... - Environment news, comment and |
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First humans arrived in Britain 250,000 years earlier t... |
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Archaeologists digging on a Norfolk beach found stone tools that show the first humans were living in Britain much earlier than previously thought. A spectacular haul of ancient flint tools has been recovered from a beach in Norfolk, pushing back the first human occupation of Britain by up to 250,00... - Science news, comment and anal |
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Ancient sperm whale\'s giant head uncovered |
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The largest fossilized skull of the mammal is found off the coast of Peru. The 12-million-year-old skull belonged to a now-extinct genus and species of sperm whale. Paleontologists digging near the coast of Peru have uncovered the largest fossilized skull of a sperm whale ever found.
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Archaeologists Find Ancient Weapon In Melting Ice Patch |
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Archaeologist Craig Lee unearthed a 10,000-year-old ancient hunting weapon in a melting ice patch in the Rocky Mountains.
- Discovery News - Top Stories |
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Ostriches Offer Clues to Dinosaur Motion |
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Sometimes it seems there’s only so much we can learn about dinosaurs. We can’t know what their coloration looked like, we can’t watch them interact with each other. We can only extrapolate from their remains. But now scientists say we can discern a hint of dinosaur movement – from ostriches. The gia... - Scientific American |
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The Passing of an Ocean Explorer |
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In praise of one of the quiet heroes of earth science:
- NYT > Environment |
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Corals Under Arctic Ice |
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Researchers on the Greenpeace ship, Experanza sent a remotely operated vehicle to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean north of Svalbard Islands. They were surprised at the diversity of sea anemones, tunicates and soft corals living in the ice-cold waters. - Geology News |
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Fish Ecology |
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The School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences undertakes key fundamental and applied research in all of the natural sciences. The School is an affiliate of the Sydney Institute of Marine Science ( SIMS ) in Chowder Bay, and operates a marine research station at SIMS on the shore of Syd... - Naturejobs - All Jobs |
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U.S., U.K. military leaders address climate change\'s r... |
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Conflict brought on by droughts, famine and unwelcome migration are as old as history itself. Yet a growing number of military analysts think that climate change will exacerbate these problems worldwide and are encouraging countries to prepare to maintain order even as shrinking resources make the...
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Accident stops Swiss Circumnavigation |
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American mountaineer, accomplished author and editor of the American Alpine Journal, John Harlin, has been injured in a fall during the early stages of an attempt to follow the entire Swiss border under his own steam. - The BMC News |
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Environmental groups and BP close to agreement over tur... |
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Environmental groups seek to halt the burnings until steps are taken for rescue teams to remove as many turtles as possible - Environment news, comment and |
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Tusks for Teeth Cannibal-Like Killer Whale |
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This one sounds like its jumped right out of Melville\'s classic Moby Dick. Scientists found the bones of an extinct whale almost two years ago in a Peruvian dessert and now claim that the whale was cannibalistic in nature.
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Ecosystem vs. an Endangered Culture |
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Conservationists tend to think of wildlife sanctuaries as the most beneficial possible use for a given piece of land, for air, water and endangered species alike. But what if there is a competing claim from an endangered culture?
- NYT > Environment |
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Indonesia\'s last remaining glacier \'to disappear\' |
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The last remaining glacier in the Pacific will disappear within years because
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NASA delays end of space shuttle program to 2011 |
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NASA\'s space shuttle program will keep going until next year. The space agency made it official Thursday after weeks of hints of launch delays. Managers agreed to postpone the next-to-last shuttle launch until Nov. 1. Discovery had been scheduled to fly to the International Space Station in Septemb... - Boston.com -- Latest news |
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Archaeologists in Herefordshire have uncovered the remains of what could possibly be a female gladiator.
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How one scientist is battling deforestation in Madagasc... |
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As many of the island\'s remaining forests are felled in the wake of a 2009 coup, primatologist Patricia Wright describes how she is helping local residents and international conservation organisations to fight back Patricia Wright has devoted most of her professional life to working on Madagascar, ...
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Survey looks for fault lines beneath Cascades |
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A U.S. Geological Survey team is exploring whether fault lines deep beneath Puget Sound extend southeast below the Cascade mountains and beyond the Tri-Cities. - The Seattle Times |
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Endangered wolf pups get public viewing |
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Five Mexican gray wolf pups born in May at a suburban St. Louis rehabilitation center are meeting the public and getting vaccinations.
- Boston.com -- Latest news |
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Arctic Climate May be More Sensitive to Warming Than Th... |
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A new study shows the Arctic climate system may be more sensitive to greenhouse warming than previously thought, and that current levels of Earth\'s atmospheric carbon dioxide may be high enough to bring about significant, irreversible shifts in Arctic ecosystems.
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