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Crystals Improve Understanding Of Volcanic Eruption Triggers
Scientists have exploited crystals from lavas to unravel the records of volcanic eruptions.
Sanctuaries "may not save corals"
International experts have warned that many marine sanctuaries are not correctly placed or large enough to save corals from the impacts of climate change.
Subterranean water running out
Western Australia's underground water supply is not recharging fast enough to keep up with demand, according to data from a groundwater monitoring network.
Gold mines could save cockatoos
New research on black cockatoos could allow gold mines to plan their revegetation in a way that would provide food and habitat for the endangered birds.
Report From Berlin Tech Show
At the IFA show in Berlin the big story is "white goods" - the fact that the show, for the first time in its 84-year history, is mixing home appliances...
'Lost towns' discovered in Amazon
The remote Amazon basin was once home to complex urban communities, according to a study in Science journal.
'Space Cube' could be world's smallest PC
Measuring just 2 inches by 2 inches, the Space Cube is roughly the size of a large die. However, the cube is actually a tiny PC, developed by the Shimafuji...
Riding A Raft Of Junk Across The Pacific
To raise awareness about plastic debris and pollution plaguing our oceans, two men build a raft out of 15,000 plastic bottles and a Cessna airplane fuselage and sailed three months...
B.C. coast shaken by powerful earthquake
A violent earthquake shook the ocean floor off the northwest coast of Vancouver Island, 191 kilometres west of Port Alice, B.C., early Thursday in the latest in a swarm of...
Oceanic Dead Zones Continue to Spread
More bad news for the world's oceans: Dead zones--areas of bottom waters too oxygen depleted to support most ocean life--are spreading, dotting nearly the entire east and south coasts of...
Fewer April Showers for U.S. Southwest as Climate Changes
The already parched U.S. Southwest is drying up even more, at least in early spring, because of climate change. A new study in Geophysical Research Letters shows that since 1978,...
U.N. Makes Headway In Climate Talks
Talks on a new global warming agreement have begun to resolve some major sticking points, the U.N. climate chief said, after months of sluggish negotiations often marked by confrontation among...
Purdue sanctions professor for misconduct
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Purdue University says it has formally reprimanded and sanctioned a faculty member for "research misconduct."
No plans to change Ontario meat inspection: minister
Ontario Agriculture Minister Leona Dombrowsky says the province doesn't want to set up a separate Ontario food inspection agency.
Tropical storm Julio hits Mexico's Baja California
LOS CABOS (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Julio drenched Mexico's Baja California on Sunday and hundreds of residents fled poor neighborhoods that were in danger of flooding near the popular tourist...
Fay weakens to depression after drenching Florida
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Fay was downgraded to a tropical depression late on Saturday after making a record fourth landfall in Florida and drenching the state's northern panhandle...
Multinational Oceanographic Cruises To Study Climate Change In The Mediterranean & Black Sea
Nine different cruises have been planned, beginning in June and up until September, arising from the different partners involved in the SESAME project. Oceanographic vessels from Greece, Italy, Spain, France,...
Environmentalists travel by car to Greece using waste vegetable oil as biofuel
Carbon-conscious enthusiasts beg restaurants and cafes for waste vegetable oil to power their European journey, converting an estimated 350 litres of oil into fuel on their 11 day trip
Drilling Down to Alien Oceans
A new method of exploring thick icy sheets and below them has been devised.
New tropical depression forms over Atlantic
MIAMI (Reuters) - A new tropical depression formed over the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday and threatened to become the eighth storm of the already busy 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, the...
VIDEO: Alaskans Choose Mine Over Fish
Alaskans voted down protections that would have stopped the huge proposed Pebble Creek mine, which may boost the area economy but could harm economically important fisheries.
Sweet Potato Out-Yields Corn In Ethanol Production Study
In experiments, sweet potatoes grown in Maryland and Alabama yielded two to three times as much carbohydrate for fuel ethanol production as field corn grown in those states, scientists report....
Carbon Disclosure Project Initiative On Public Sector Supply Chain Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The Carbon Disclosure Project, a collaboration of some 385 institutional investors including Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Barclays and HSBC, has extended its traditional work in the private sector to the...
Fay leaves behind lots of water for Fla. lake
(AP) -- Tropical Storm Fay brought some good news to the state's parched Everglades and its liquid heart, Lake Okeechobee - lots and lots of water.
Yellowstone Supervolcano: Only Lukewarm?
The geysers of Yellowstone National Park owe their eistence to the "Yellowstone hotspot"--a region of molten rock buried deep beneath Yellowstone, geologists have found. But how hot is this "hotspot,"...
Feature: Safety in the pipeline
A Western Australian research team is monitoring thousands of kilometres of undersea gaspipes to make sure they can survive any effects climate change may bring about. Denice Rice reports.
Warming endangers sea sponges
Research has found that sea sponges are at risk from global warming, as their symbiotic relationship with microbes breaks down at 33 degrees Celsius.
"Perfect Storm" Killing Earth's Frogs
Amphibians are some of the toughest survivors on Earth. But now scientists say numbers of some species are declining at a rate that sends a deafening warning about human impact...