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Snow Headed to Four Corners
Rain for California means snow for southern Utah and northern Arizona.
Lending a Helping Hand: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Community To Host Live Telethon Dec. 8 To Support Hurricane Sandy Victims
Last month, Hurricane Sandy -- dubbed by many researchers as one of the most powerful hurricanes in American history - came ashore along almost 1,000 miles of the United States...
Icebergs scoured Florida during Ice Age
During the last ice age, icebergs carved trenches in the ocean floor as far south as Miami, according to research presented here Thursday at the annual meeting of the American...
Human impact on planet: A geological era?
Humans drive trillions of miles in cars, clear-cut forests for agriculture and create vast landfills teeming with the detritus of industrialization. There's no doubt that humans have radically reshaped the...
Why Aren't We Afraid Of A Tsunami Hitting San Francisco?
Watch Out For Tsunami! Wikimedia CommonsWhen a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan's eastern coast early Friday morning, we all feared a tsunami. But San Francisco gets earthquakes all the time, and we're not...
Greenland Ice Sheet Holds Record of Fossil Fuels
Greenland's ice cores hide the chemical fingerprints of decades of fossil fuel burning, a researcher says.
Gas hydrates in Arctic is shallowest yet found
Undersea methane hydrate deposits could serve as climate-change canary.Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2012.11988
NASA casts infrared eye on Southern Indian Ocean's Tropical Cyclone Claudia
The third tropical cyclone in the Southern Indian Ocean has been renamed Tropical Cyclone Claudia as NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead.The AIRS instrument on Aqua captured infrared imagery of Claudia...
Haymeadows are good for the environment, researchers say
(Phys.org)—Traditional haymeadows are much better at supporting biodiversity and preventing water pollution than intensively farmed fields according to research from Lancaster University.
Green Blog: Bring On the Hacks (Meat Lovers Preferred)
Farmers, butchers, tech mavens and others are invited to put their heads together to improve sustainable meat production.
Green Blog: Warming Slopes, Shriveled Revenues
Projections by climate scientists indicate that winter temperatures could rise by anywhere from 4 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century, and the length of the snow...
Toxic cloud in Buenos Aires under control
A toxic cloud that formed Thursday triggered a public scare that forced the evacuation of offices in Buenos Aires and the suspension of metro and train services in a tourist...
Global Warming Gives Ski Industry Chills
Winter sports enthusiasts are taking their climate change concerns to Washington.
Virginia Tech Ranking for Research Spending Jumps
Rising three places to No. 41 in National Science Foundation rankings for research spending, Virginia Tech remains the top university in Virginia for funds expended in pursuit of science, engineering,...
Ancient Cooking Stones Reveal Earth's Past Magnetic Field
Minerals in ancient stones from the steam ovens of New Zealand's first settlers can reveal the Earth's magnetic field going back 700 years
Mango and Zara sign up to 'detox' plan
Greenpeace campaign to remove hazardous chemicals from the clothing industry is garnering big name support
ASA, CSSA and SSSA Applaud PCAST for Agricultural Research Enterprise Report
The American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America commend PCAST on a report that identifies threats to America's agricultural preparedness and proposes...
Future grim for 'biggest and most magnificent' trees
Across the world, big old trees face a dire future globally from agriculture, logging, habitat fragmentation, exotic invaders, and the effects of climate change, warn leading scientists in an article...
Urban Legend: Can City Planning Shed Its Pseudoscientific Stigma?
In 1961 urbanist Jane Jacobs didn't pull any punches when she called city planning a pseudoscience. "Years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have...
Reports point to growing risks from climate change
Greenhouse gases have hit a record high, we are heading for a much hotter planet and seas are rising faster than projected, studies show.
VIDEO: Concerns over $46bn Caspian oil rig
The huge oil field in the Caspian Sea is raising pollution concerns ahead of its opening in 2013.
Smelly socks raise silver stink
Does antibacterial clothing conceal environmental threat?
Mathematicians tackle global issues
More than 100 academic institutions and scholarly societies have joined in a major world-wide initiative: Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE) 2013. This year-long effort will highlight the contributions made by...
Disposing of decomposing whale is an outsize problem in Malibu
As jurisdictional issues complicate plans for removal of the huge carcass from the beach, the stench grows.It was a magnificent beast when it washed ashore under the bluffs in Malibu:...
Human activity threatens trees
Human activities threaten the oldest trees, which could trigger a vicious cycle of further warming and carbon emissions.
Green Blog: University of Texas to Withdraw Fracking Study
The university acts on recommendations from an independent panel that scrutinized a campus energy institute's ties to the gas industry.
Green Blog: Gas Tanker Completes Arctic Sea Journey
Accompanied by two Russian icebreakers, the vessel took nine days to complete the trip.
Alaska reclaims missing moon rocks since 1973
(AP)—Alaska's moon rocks from the 1969 Apollo 11 mission are back in the 49th state.