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Well: Summer Taco Nights
This week, the Recipes for Health columnist Martha Rose Shulman offers a refreshing take on the taco, beginning with two delicious summer salsas.
Researchers find gray wolf-grizzly bear link in Yellowstone
The gray wolf's return to Yellowstone after a 70-year absence has boosted an important food source for the threatened grizzly bear, a study finds.Reintroduction of the gray wolf to Yellowstone...
The 'Runaway Greenhouse' Overheating Stage - Earth In 1.5 Billion Years
A computer model estimate says it might be easier than previously thought for a planet to overheat into the scorchingly uninhabitable "runaway greenhouse" stage. That may mean some planets thought to...
Corals inspire new sunscreen filters
Researchers have created the world's first UVA/UVB sunscreen filters that mimic the natural sun protection of corals.
The greens are far from "finished" | Andy Stirling
The green movement must ensure its relationship with science helps open up ideas of progress, not limit them"The Greens are finished" chants Tim Montgomery – his Times editorial joining heavily orchestrated wishful thinking...
Discoverers of underwater forest hope to protect site from salvagers
If salvage companies get their way, an underwater forest of 50,000-year-old trees only recently discovered could be destroyed to make high-end coffee tables.
Smaller-Than-Expected Gulf Dead Zone Is Still Massive
The Gulf of Mexico's dead zone covers an area the size of Connecticut. That's large, but smaller than expected. Winds helped the waters mix more than predicted, reducing its size.
Pictures: Oil Spill Sullies Popular Tourist Beach in Thailand
A pipeline leak sent thousands of gallons of oil pouring into the Gulf of Thailand, blackening the shores of a resort area and threatening wildlife.
Ice-free Arctic winters could explain amplified warming during Pliocene
Year-round ice-free conditions across the surface of the Arctic Ocean could explain why the Earth was substantially warmer during the Pliocene Epoch than it is today, despite similar concentrations...
Dual radar storm analysis technique works even with one, research says
(Phys.org) —Scientists may be able to better study how supercell thunderstorms work by using the data from just one Doppler radar unit and an analysis technique called synthetic dual-Doppler (SDD)...
Canoeist discovers uncharted waterfalls in Canada
Explorer Adam Shoalts hurtles down 12-metre falls on Again river in one of world's remotest areas In an age in which explorers are running out of wildernesses and life has been street-mapped...
Funding the ISIS neutron and muon facility – doing much more with less | Sylvia McLain
Britain spends more than 20 years building a world-class facility for science, then decides to seriously impair its productivity – just to save a few million quidImagine you had to remortgage a house...
Global warming endangers South American water supply
Chile and Argentina may face critical water storage issues due to rain-bearing westerly winds over South America's Patagonian Ice-Field to moving south as a result of global warming.
Tree-dwelling orangutans in Borneo increasingly coming to earth
BURNABY, British Columbia, July 29 (UPI) -- Orangutans in Borneo are coming down from the trees, a newly observed behavior that may show adaptation to habitat change, primatologists say.
Study: Earthquakes can release greenhouse gases from ocean floor
BREMEN, Germany, July 29 (UPI) -- European scientists say they have confirmed a link between earthquakes and underwater releases of methane gas that could increase global greenhouse gas levels.
Foreign airlines urged to use GPS at San Francisco
The Federal Aviation Administration is advising all foreign airlines to use a GPS system instead of visual approaches when landing at San Francisco International Airport in the wake of the...
Sparkling Wines from Sussex? Climate Change Swirls Wine Production (Op-Ed)
Can wineries adapt as traditional wine-making regions warm?
FOR KIDS: Fracking waste and quakes
Underground storage of liquid waste from these mining operations can make an area more vulnerable to tremors
Keeping your balance: Identification of key neurons that sense unexpected motion has significant implications for motion sickness
It happens to all of us at least once each winter in Montreal. You're walking on the sidewalk and before you know it you are slipping on a patch of...
Tuna and floating objects: Mysterious links
More than 2 000 years ago, Roman fishermen already used the natural propensity of some species of fish to gather under floating objects, to enhance their catches in the Mediterranean....
Toxicologists enter the fray on endocrine disruptors
Open letter urges the European commission to consult with the scientific community before enacting any regulation
News in Brief: Wetter permafrost clings to carbon better
In 12-year lab study, moist soil samples released less greenhouse gas as they warmed
Fracking Could Help Geothermal Become a Power Player
Here's another use for fracking : expanding access to hot rocks deep beneath Earth’s surface for energy production. In April Ormat Technologies hooked up the first such project--known in... --...
Environmental risks of pipeline underestimated
A new UNSW-led study modelling the impacts of an approved $47 million pipeline pumping water from the Macquarie River to the city of Orange reveals far greater risks to river...
Field test could lead to reducing CO2 emissions worldwide
An injection of carbon dioxide, or CO2, has begun at a site in southeastern Washington to test deep geologic storage. Battelle researchers based at Pacific Northwest National Laboratoryare injecting 1,000...
China invests in battling pollution
BEIJING, July 28 (UPI) -- The Chinese government has committed $500 billion to enhance programs aimed at air and water pollution prevention and treatment, officials said Sunday.
Canadian Boreal: Conservation Of The World's Last Great Forest
The Canadian boreal forest, stretching from the Yukon in the west to Newfoundland and Labrador in the east, remains one of the world's great natural treasures.The ecologically diverse region contains...
Obama Says He’ll Evaluate Pipeline Project Depending on Pollution
President Obama said that he would evaluate construction of the Keystone XL pipeline on the basis of whether or not it would add significant amounts of carbon to the atmosphere.