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New Study Raises Concerns About Proposed Mitigation Strategy For Marine Bycatch

14 years ago from Science Daily

Huge numbers of fish, seabirds, and other marine animals are routinely killed and discarded after being inadvertently caught during fishing operations. Known as marine bycatch, this problem is an ongoing...

Study: Birds are migrating earlier

14 years ago from UPI

BOSTON, June 24 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say many birds are migrating earlier because of global warming, but some might not be able to keep pace with changing...

Ice Core Reveals How Quickly Climate Can Change [News]

14 years ago from Scientific American

Roughly 14,700 years ago the weather patterns that bring snow to Greenland shifted from one year to the next--a pattern of abrupt change that was repeated 12,900 years ago and...

Protected Royal Bengal tiger killed by villagers

14 years ago from Physorg

(AP) -- A news report says villagers and forest guards have beaten to death a protected Royal Bengal tiger after it killed three people near the world's largest mangrove...

EU CO2 emissions drop 7.7 percent from 1990 levels: EAA

14 years ago from Physorg

Greenhouse gas emissions from the European Union dropped 7.7 percent from 1990 to 2006, even as the use of carbon dioxide-intensive coal increased, the European Environment Agency said Friday.

Mayfly-Mimicking Sensor Could be High Tech 'Canary in the Coal Mine'

14 years ago from Physorg

Security, health and safety sensors in coal mines, buildings or underground public transit areas where air or water does not readily flow may one day be improved by research on...

Mexico recovers 929 pre-Columbian pieces

14 years ago from Physorg

(AP) -- Mexico recovered more than 900 pre-Columbian artifacts seized from smugglers in the U.S. and Canada, including 800-year-old fiber sandals, spears and hunting bows looted from nomadic caves,...

Floodwaters to widen 'dead zone' in Gulf of Mexico

14 years ago from Physorg

(AP) -- Floodwaters loaded with farm runoff are heading down the Mississippi River, and scientists fear the deluge will dramatically increase this summer's dead zone in the Gulf of...

Digital Water Pavilion Makes A Splash In Spain

14 years ago from Science Daily

An MIT-designed building with walls made entirely of water is being unveiled Thursday at the opening of the Zaragoza World Expo in Spain. This is the first of its kind...

EPA creates strategies to save ecosystems

14 years ago from UPI

WASHINGTON, June 20 (UPI) -- Strategies to protect sensitive ecosystems in the Unites States from the impact of climate change are the basis of a new federal report.

Clean Coal - Pipe Dream Or Next Big Thing?

14 years ago from CBSNews - Science

The coal industry has launched an ad campaign to sell the public on the idea of clean coal as a viable energy alternative, but some say that the technology doesn't...

Study: Greenland's climate warming

14 years ago from UPI

NUUK, Greenland, June 20 (UPI) -- The climate on Greenland abruptly warmed, corresponding to a global rise in temperature, a Danish research team studying Greenland's ice cap reported.

Scientific reasons for Earth’s seasons

14 years ago from MSNBC: Science

It’s time for a change of seasons — but what determines when spring ends and summer begins? Get the scientific reasons.

Beijing Olympic car ban targets pollution, gridlock

14 years ago from Physorg

Beijing will ban more than one million cars from the streets during the Olympics in an effort to curb pollution and ease traffic gridlock, the government confirmed Friday.

Virginia man sheds 80 pounds eating at McDonald's

14 years ago from AP Health

QUINTON, Va. (AP) -- A Virginia man lost about 80 pounds in six months by eating nearly every meal at McDonald's....

Business leaders call for global warming action

14 years ago from Physorg

(AP) -- The world's developed countries should take the lead in the battle against global warming and push for halving global emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, a group...

Earth from Space: Arctic Ocean swirls

14 years ago from European Space Agency

This Envisat image captures the marginal ice zone, a region that forms at the boundary of open and frozen oceans, of the Greenland Sea during the onset of spring melting.

Officials suspend Calif. aerial spraying program

14 years ago from AP Science

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- Officials on Thursday abruptly canceled a state program to spray chemicals to combat crop-eating moth in urban areas after months of public uproar over its unclear...

When the Levee Breaks: Is the Culprit Rain--Or Overdevelopment? [News]

14 years ago from Scientific American

At least 19 levees in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri have failed over the past week after heavy rains, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers--and workers swarmed to shore...

New E-Waste Standards: Junking Electronic Gadgets without Trashing the Planet [News]

14 years ago from Scientific American

Last Sunday, six Greenpeace activists boarded a ship named the Yang Ming Success in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor. Their mission: to prevent workers from unloading so-called e-waste, the toxic remnants...

World population may top 7B in 2012

14 years ago from UPI

WASHINGTON, June 19 (UPI) -- More than 7 billion people may be alive on Earth in 2012, the U.S. Census Bureau predicted Thursday.

Study provides a first look at ammonia volatilized from surface applied urea

14 years ago from Physorg

The question of how much nitrogen is lost from fertilizer urea when it is applied to the soil surface comes up with growers and fertilizer dealers every season and is...

VIDEO: Mozambique's Better Biofuels

14 years ago from National Geographic

Jatropha, a hardy biofuel plant grown in salty soils near the Indian Ocean, may reduce biofuels' competition with food-producing crops, industry officials say.

Lavas from Hawaiian volcano contain fingerprint of planetary formation

14 years ago from Physorg

Hikers visiting the Kilauea Iki crater in Hawaii today walk along a mostly flat surface of sparsely vegetated basalt. It looks like parking lot asphalt, but in November and December...

Iron Isotopes in Lava Lake Point to Possible Ways to Trace Planetary Origins

15 years ago from Newswise - Scinews

A University of Arkansas researcher and his colleagues have found differences in the iron isotope composition of basalts from a lava lake in Hawaii that point to new ways of...

Mass. shines in tech study, Calif. loses luster

15 years ago from Physorg

(AP) -- Massachusetts remains the "gold standard" for mining economic growth from technology and science while California is losing its luster, according to a study released Thursday.

'Man-made' Water Has Different Chemistry

15 years ago from Science Daily

As population growth, food production and the regional effects of climate change place greater stress on the Earth's natural water supply, "man-made" water -- created by removing salt from seawater...

PHOTOS: Summer Solstice Marked With Fire, Magic, Yoga

15 years ago from National Geographic

A fiery cave festival in Spain, an Indian butterfly dance, and a Times Square yogafest -- if previous years are any hint, the 2008 summer solstice should be a day...