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Scientists to assess Beijing Olympics air pollution control efforts
As the Summer Olympics in Beijing kicks off this week, the event is giving scientists a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to observe how the atmosphere responds when a heavily populated region substantially...
Fossil And Molecular Evidence Reveals The History Of Major Marine Biodiversity Hotspots
Experts have described three major marine biodiversity hotspots in the last 50 million years, from the oldest, peaked in southwest Europe and northwest Africa, to the modern Indo-Australian Archipelago hotspot....
Rock Art Marks Transformations In Traditional Peruvian Societies
Peru is one of the Latin American countries, like Argentina and Brazil, where rock art is thought to have developed throughout a period stretching from 10,000 BC to 1500 AD....
First National Study Of Diving-related Injuries
Diving into cool, refreshing water is a favorite summer pastime for millions, and a fan favorite sport at the Olympics. Now, the first comprehensive study of diving board injuries is...
Opinion: A carbon-constrained world
Energy consumers and producers alike bear moral and environmental responsibilities and cannot neglect future generations, believes Chandran Nair.
Opinion: Global warming - myth, threat or opportunity
The most critical problem we now confront is how to provide enough affordable fuel to avoid severe recession before alternative energy can become reality, argues Walter Starck.
First neutrons created at the ISIS Second Target Station
The UK's ISIS Second Target Station Project moved a major step closer to completion today when the first neutrons were created in the ISIS Second Target Station. After five years...
Gold Medal spaghetti sauce mix is recalled
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said CF Sauer Foods Inc. is recalling Gold Medal-brand spaghetti sauce mix because of a labeling error.
Traditional Forms Of Agriculture: Unexpected Degree Of Diversity, Time-honored Principles
The general public often regards traditional agriculture in the light of principles emphasizing self-sufficiency, or even sheer survival, as opposed to cash cropping, manual labor as opposed to an extreme...
Some goat cheese recalled in Canada
OTTAWA, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Portuguese Cheese Co. announced the recall of Santa Maria-brand goat cheese due to possible contamination.
Patagonian Glacier Yields Clues For Improved Understanding Of Global Climate Change
A recent expedition to the San Valentin glacier in the Chilean part of Patagonia demonstrated the potential of that site for exploring climatic variations of the past. The analyses gave...
Secret to Towering Rogue Waves Revealed
Deadly rogue waves 100 feet tall or higher could suddenly rise seemingly out of nowhere from the ocean, research now reveals.
VIDEO: Pearls Rise Again in Gulf
Pearl harvesting was once a key livelihood for people who lived in what is now the United Arab Emirates. Now the practice is making a comeback.
Kit cleans up fire extinguishers' mess
A new technique has been developed that assesses and then remediates the toxic legacy left behind by decades of using fire fighting foams.
Feature: When push comes to shove
A new 3D model of the earth’s crust may change theories of continental drift.
Letters: Collective action to save the planet
Letters: Andrew Simms' article was enlightening but his political perspective is flawed and erroneous
Giant Grass Miscanthus Can Meet US Biofuels Goal Using Less Land Than Corn Or Switchgrass
In the largest field trial of its kind in the United States, researchers have determined that the giant perennial grass Miscanthus x giganteus outperforms current biofuels sources -- by a...
Genetically Modified Root Systems Result In Plants That Survive With Little Water
A part of the global food crisis is the inefficiency of current irrigation methods. More irrigated water evaporates than reaches the roots of crops, amounting to an enormous waste of...
World's tiniest snake found in Barbados
A U.S. scientist said Sunday he has discovered the globe's tiniest species of snake in the easternmost Caribbean island of Barbados, with full-grown adults typically stretching less than 4 inches...
Northwest Passage may be ice-free soon
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- The Northwest Passage may become ice-free for the second summer in a row, scientists monitoring the situation say.
Claim: AIDS cure less than 10 years off
BONN, Germany, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- A German researcher says he is optimistic a cure for AIDS will be found within 10 years.
Sewage pumps threaten British waters
LONDON, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- The purity of water on Britain's beaches is being threatened by overflow systems that unload raw sewage into waters and rivers along the...
Apocalypse - but not right now. How California stays cool about the Big One
Moderate earthquake is 'teachable moment' in LA's long history of seismic tremors
Jellyfish clogging world's coastal waters
BARCELONA, Spain, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- Burgeoning jellyfish populations in coastal waters around the world is proof oceans are being impacted by global warming and overfishing, Spanish experts...
Scientist finds carcinogen-eating bugs
An Australian researcher has found a group of microbes that can break down some of the worst cancer-causing substances released by pollution.
Corals may not recover from bleaching
Coral reefs may not be able to recover from bleaching by taking up new species of micro-algae, as previously suggested, research has found.
Sewage pipes left 'unregulated'
Water companies in England and Wales have been given a "licence to pollute", claims an environmentalist watchdog.
British CO2 emissions higher than reported
YORK, England, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Contrary to government claims, Britain's greenhouse gas emissions are actually rising, two academic reports claim.