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Landmarks, cities worldwide unplug for Earth Hour
(AP) -- Europe's best known landmarks - including the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and Rome's Colosseum - fell dark Saturday, following Sydney's Opera House and Beijing's Forbidden City in...
Coral Reefs Face Extinction Within Century
Half of Caribbean Coral Already Gone; Climate Change, Pollution, Development, Bottom-Dragging Fishing Boats Blamed
Mpemba effect: Why hot water can freeze faster than cold
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have known for generations that hot water can sometimes freeze faster than cold, an effect known as the Mpemba effect, but until now have not understood why....
Climate change on fisheries studied
WASHINGTON, March 25 (UPI) -- U.S. government scientists say they have created a computer model that is one of the first to directly link a specific fish with climate...
Global warming threatens plant diversity
BONN, Germany, March 25 (UPI) -- German and U.S. scientists say climate change will create global changes in the living conditions for plants, thereby producing major regional differences.
Autonomous Submarinebot Heads Down on Deepest-Ever Undersea Search For Undiscovered Life
While some scientists resort to undersea drilling to find undiscovered forms of life, a new group of researchers has decided that piloting a robotic submarine into a submerged volcano was the way to...
Seabed biodiversity in oxygen minimum zones
Some regions of the deep ocean floor support abundant populations of organisms, despite being overlain by water that contains very little oxygen, according to an international study led by scientists...
Even soil feels the heat
Twenty years of field studies reveal that as the Earth has gotten warmer, plants and microbes in the soil have given off more carbon dioxide. So-called soil respiration has increased...
Sunk by global warming? Wave goodbye to this disputed island
India and Bangladesh have been trying to snatch from each other a tiny landmass that first surfaced in the 1970s in the Bay of Bengal. It has resubmerged, an apparent casualty of...
World Briefing | United Nations: Deforestation Continues, but More Slowly, Report Says
Deforestation slowed in the past decade, in the first sign that global conservation efforts are bearing fruit, but an area the size of Costa Rica is still being destroyed each...
Warmer summers could create challenges for nesting Arctic seabirds
Warmer, wetter weather in the Canadian Arctic could create problems for nesting seabirds, say a team of Canadian scientists who, between them, have spent over 7,000 days observing birds in...
Northeastern U.S. Flooding 'GOES' to the Movies Via Satellite (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The northeastern U.S. was subjected to heavy flooding and damage from late winter storms, and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-12 captured a movie of those storms as...
These grains can be solid, liquid or dust
(PhysOrg.com) -- Take a walk along the beach and you might marvel at any number of things: the cresting waves, the occasional scuttling crab, the shells and odd shapes of...
Bacterial Sugars Battle Corrosion
ACS Meeting News: Environmentally friendly coatings made of polysaccharides protect metals from rusting.
Finding the Cracks in U.S. Water Safety
Marc Edwards has devoted his career to finding potential hazards in the U.S. water supply.
Birth of a sea.. floor: Alvin explores the Galapagos Spreading Center
Editor's Note: Journalist and crew member Kathryn Eident is traveling on board the RV Atlantis on a monthlong voyage to explore undersea volcanism in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, among...
Sub-Saharan Africa news in brief: 11–24 March 2010
New fund to help Africa fight climate change, Nigeria to launch earthquake hazards map, agribusiness receives more attention, and more.
New CO2 'scrubber' from ingredient in hair conditioners
Relatives of ingredients in hair-conditioning shampoos and fabric softeners show promise as a long-sought material to fight global warming by "scrubbing" carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the flue gases from...
"I thought a bomb went off”
As twilight fell over Port-au-Prince that first terrible night after Haiti’s January earthquake, Louise Ivers watched a strange cloud of dust settle over the city. Stirred by buildings collapsing as...
Sugarcane okay in standing water, helps protect Everglades
A study by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists shows that sugarcane can tolerate flooded conditions for up to two weeks. That's good news for growers who are using best management...
Forests expert officially complains about 'distorted' Sunday Times article
Press Complaints Commission told that newspaper story gives impression that IPCC made false Amazon rainfall claimA leading scientist has made an official complaint to the Press Complaints Commission over an "inaccurate, misleading and...
E.P.A. to Seek More Data on Emissions
The agency has proposed requiring petroleum facilities that inject carbon dioxide into the ground to report their emissions.
World Water Day Focus on Global Sewage Flood
Two billion tons of human and animal waste and industrial pollution are dumped into waterways every day around the world, according to World Water Day reports. There are few places...
World Water Day Pictures: Epic Disappearing Acts
See before-and-after scenes of a sea vanishing, a lake plummeting, a Swiss glacier retreating, and more—pictures of fresh water on the brink for World Water Day 2010.
Beyond the Dust Bowl: Challenges in Soil and Water Conservation
A new book takes a region by region look across the United States at the challenges remaining in soil and water conservation, and what we've learned over the past century.
Commercial cooking elevates hazardous pollutants in the environment
As you stroll down restaurant row and catch the wonderful aroma of food - steaks, burgers, and grilled veggies - keep this in mind: You may be in...
Marine conditions of Aralar mountain range of 120 million years ago
The Early Aptian (120 million years ago) was an age of intense volcanic activity on Earth, eruptions that emitted large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, thus causing a...
Hard plastics decompose in oceans, releasing endocrine disruptor BPA
Scientists today reported widespread global contamination of sea sand and sea water with the endocrine disruptor bisphenol A (BPA) and said that the BPA probably originated from a surprising source:...