Polar ice river emits seismic signals

ST. LOUIS, June 10 (UPI) -- A U.S.-led team of seismologists has discovered seismic signals from an Antarctic ice river that they say make California earthquakes sound trivial.

Making math with yarn

Coral reefs can be crocheted. The atmosphere can be knit. And a stop sign can be folded into a pair of pants.

Mountain Ranges Rise Much More Rapidly Than Geologists Expected

Mountains may experience a "growth spurt" that can double their heights in as little as two to four million years -- several times faster than the prevailing tectonic theory suggests.

IBM aims to cool chips with water

A network of tiny pipes of water could be used to cool next-generation PC chips, IBM researchers say.

Building On Pyramids Of Trash

A Dutch engineer has devised a simple solution to the growing amounts of waste society generates. He suggests solidifying waste in a concrete-type material and using the resulting slabs to...

Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean Dolphin Populations Improving

The numbers of Northeastern offshore spotted and eastern spinner dolphins in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean are increasing after being severely depleted because of accidental death in the tuna purse-seine...

Rising temperatures leave puffins hungry

EDINBURGH, Scotland, June 5 (UPI) -- Scientists said the puffin population in Scotland has fallen 30 percent in the past five years because of rising sea temperatures.

Pass the popcorn: Blockbuster sequels -- financial boom or bust?

Although movie sequels don't always do as well at the box office as the original, they tend to do much better than non-sequels, according to a new study in the...

New study sheds light on mysterious 'supershear' quakes

A French-Turkish team of seismologists on Thursday said they had found evidence about the impacts of a rare but extremely violent earthquake called a supershear.

Feature: East Lake - on the road to urban renewal

Hitting the brakes on suburban sprawl means shifting developers’ focus to urban renewal, but rethinking city spaces is far from trivial. A project in Canberra’s East Lake area is testing...

African farmers 'adjusting to climate change'

Some African farmers are using innovative, locally-relevant methods to adapt to their changing environments, according to case studies.

Volcano taming

Could macro-scale chemical engineering be used to stop a volcanic lava flow in its tracks and save potentially thousands of lives and homes when the next eruption occurs? That's the...

Stolen laptop contained 32,000 farmers' financial data

About 32,000 Canadian farmers are on the alert after learning a laptop containing their financial information has been stolen.

RIM co-founder donates $50M to Waterloo physics centre

Research in Motion co-founder Mike Lazaridis has donated an additional $50 million to the University of Waterloo's Perimeter Institute, bringing his total contribution to the centre for theoretical physics to...

Plan for quake 'warning system'

Nasa scientists have said they could be on the verge of a breakthrough in their efforts to forecast earthquakes.

US blogger released on bail in Singapore

A US-based blogger who allegedly accused a Singapore judge of "prostituting herself" was released on bail Thursday and had his passport confiscated.

Oil spill threatens Buenos Aires

Workers battle to dissolve an oil spill heading towards the coast of Argentina after two ships collide off Uruguay.

Forest Canopies Help Determine Natural Fertilization Rates

A newly identified factor that controls the natural input of new nitrogen into boreal forest ecosystems has been reported in Science. The researchers showed that this natural fertilization process appears...

Monitoring Antarctic Ice Movement Is a Sticky Business [News]

Ice streams and their smaller cousins, glaciers, don't just sit around looking frosty; they mosey along, albeit at different rates of speed. They also lose mass when snowfall cannot replace...

VIDEO: Green Roofs Are Nothing New

Plant-covered roofs may seem like cutting edge eco-architecture. But the practice is an old tradition on the remote Faroe Islands.

Government buffing Prentice's Wikipedia entry

The government has been editing Industry Minister Jim Prentice's Wikipedia entry, removing copyright controversy and replacing it with praise.

Quake Research to Provide Rare Glimpse of How Structures Collapse

Structural engineers at the University at Buffalo are conducting some of the most comprehensive experiments ever attempted to develop methods of evaluating and designing steel buildings so that they will...

Russian science academy rejects Putin ally

No change at the top as old guard keeps its grip on power.

Japanese nuclear plant in quake risk

Reprocessing facility may be built on active fault.

Darwin still causing waves after 150 years

Number of carbon control plans a concern, Canada West says

It will be a headache for business if the Western provinces end up with a variety of different rules for controlling carbon emissions, the head of a Calgary-based think-tank says.

The Cormorant -- The 'Black Plague' Or An Example Of Successful Species Conservation?

Europe requires a common management strategy for cormorants in order to reconcile nature conservation and fishing interests. An effective regulation of cormorant populations can only work at the European level,...

Alaska's Copper River salmon a golden catch

CORDOVA, Alaska (Reuters) - Fed by vast glaciers, Alaska's Copper River flows 300 miles from the rugged Wrangell Mountains, fanning out into a wildlife-rich delta of marshes, sloughs and braided...