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Scientists Point To Forests For Carbon Storage Solutions
Scientists who have determined how much carbon is stored annually in upper Midwest forests hope their findings will be used to accelerate global discussion about the strategy of managing forests...
Goat Gardeners Take On Urban Blight
Los Angeles has brought in a herd of 100 goats to clear the thick and tangled weeds from a hillside lot next to the historic Angels Flight railway.
Hurricane Ike Tracked By European Space Agency's Envisat
Residents along the Gulf Coast are bracing for Hurricane Ike as it travels over the Gulf of Mexico after ripping through Cuba and Haiti. ESA's Envisat satellite is tracking the...
Hurricane Ike Larger, Eyeing Landfall Early Saturday in Texas
Hurricane Ike hasn't been strengthening yet as of Thursday morning, Sept. 11, but he is getting larger. Ike is a very large tropical cyclone with hurricane force winds as far...
Climate: New Spin On Ocean's Role
New studies of the Southern Ocean are revealing previously unknown features of giant spinning eddies that are profoundly influencing marine life and the world's climate. These massive swirling structures --...
Water to wine...well alcohols actually
Japanese scientists have unleashed the power of water to improve the synthetic route to industrially-important phenols.
Study finds way to keep steel solid
Scientists find magnetic qualities in iron that weaken it at low temeratures
Fuel emissions from marine vessels remain a global concern
The forecast for clear skies and smooth sailing for oceanic vessels has been impeded by worldwide concerns of their significant contributions to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions that impact...
Hanna-Ike-Josephine storm trio isn't an anomaly
Global warming can't be blamed for the trifecta -- headed toward the Southeast U.S. -- meteorologists say. It's just 'peak season in an active hurricane cycle.' ...
100-year forest management project begins
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've started a 100-year study to create better forest management methods and measure how those practices affect plants...
Independence key to consumer complaints agency
Running the CCTS board is not unlike heading the Human Rights Commission, Mary Gusella says
Climate inaction 'costing lives'
Failure to curb climate change is violating the human rights of people in the poorest nations, says a UK-based aid charity.
Researchers probe bank heists without holdups
(AP) -- With a startling success rate, security researchers disguised as fire inspectors, exterminators or government safety monitors were able to slip past tellers in nearly 1,000 bank branches...
Urbanization Reconfigures Surface Hydrology
What are the consequences of human-made tinkering with land cover and hydrology on surrounding native desert ecosystems and biodiversity? This question forms the backdrop for a case study published in...
Valley Networks On Mars Formed During Long Period Of Episodic Flooding
Ancient features on the surface of Mars called valley networks may well have been carved by recurrent floods during a long period when the martian climate may have been much...
Alberta to make newsprint from beetle-damaged wood
Alberta is introducing a $28 million research project aimed at converting trees killed by mountain pine beetles into newsprint.
VIDEO: Huge Rocks Crush Homes
Boulders, some the size of apartment buildings, tumbled from cliffs above a Cairo shantytown Sunday, killing at least 31.
UNC Receives Record $181 Million Grant to Evaluate Health, Poverty and Gender Programs Worldwide
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill up to $181 million to continue its...
NDP leader calls for oilsands halt until environment concerns met
NDP Leader Jack Layton said he wants to stop any further expansion of oilsands development in Alberta, at least until a plan is in place for oil companies to restore...
Ancient trees recorded in mines
A US-UK team of scientists find more spectacular fossil forests deep in the coal mines of Illinois.
Tory 'war room' gets rocky debut
The federal Conservatives finally got to use their high-tech war room in a campaign on Monday after the party officially opened the sprawling facility in April of last year.
Arctic shipping set to explode in legal vacuum, experts warn
As the Arctic ice cap melts away, shipping in the environmentally fragile region is expected to balloon, but there is virtually no legal framework to regulate the new activity, experts...
Study: Hurricanes are becoming stronger
MADISON, Wis., Sept. 8 (UPI) -- A study by U.S. scientists confirms the theory that global warming might be contributing to stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic during the...
Global warming wiped out the first rainforests
(PhysOrg.com) -- Spectacular discoveries of fossil forests show that global warming wiped out the first rainforests to evolve on our planet.
As Andean glacier retreats, tiny life forms swiftly move in, study shows
A University of Colorado at Boulder team working at 16,400 feet in the Peruvian Andes has discovered how barren soils uncovered by retreating glacier ice can swiftly establish a thriving...
A Little Nitrogen Can Go a Long Way
Scientists with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have determined that varying the rate of crop production inputs such as fertilizer and seed makes intuitive sense. With recent substantial increases in...
Using neutron-computed tomography techniques, scientist measure in-situ water content
Scientists at the University of California in Davis present results from a newly developed non-invasive technique that uses thermal neutron attenuation to measure spatial and temporal distribution of water in...
Science Weekly podcast: A 'rock star geologist' on climate change; plus dire warnings on energy production and Africa
Geologist Iain Stewart discusses climate change and the media, dire warnings from the government's former chief scientist David King, plus a trip around the Natural History Museum's new 'cocoon'