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Livestock, Pets Left Behind As Chile Volcano Fears Loom
Tens of thousands of animals are trapped in an ash-covered region of southern Chile after their owners have been forced to flee the still-active volcano.
Diatoms Discovered To Remove Phosphorus From Oceans
Scientists have discovered a new way that phosphorus is naturally removed from the oceans -- its stored in diatoms. The discovery opens up a new realm of research into an...
Coherent Description of Earth's Inaccessible Interior Clarifies Mantle Motion
A new model of inner Earth pulls past information and hypotheses into a coherent story to clarify mantle motion. Scientists paint a story for a chemically complex inner earth, a...
Limitations Of Charcoal As An Effective Carbon Sink
Fire-derived charcoal is thought to be an important carbon sink. However, a new article in Science shows that charcoal promotes soil microbes and causes a large loss of soil carbon....
Warmer weather linked to caribou deaths
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., May 3 (UPI) -- Global warming may be the reason for a decrease in the number of caribou calves being born in West Greenland, U.S....
What Can Be Done About Pollution In Ganges River?
Montana State University research about pollution in the Ganges River has reached the Supreme Court of India, producing some optimism among MSU scientists.
Fishing for Oxygen in Warming Oceans [News]
Records stretching back to 1960 prove what climate models had predicted: warmer oceans contain less oxygen. Oceanographer Lothar Stramma of the University of Kiel in Germany and his colleagues report...
Climate troubles brewing for beer makers
Rising temperatures are affecting European hop harvests.
US govt to tighten lead emissions standards
The US Environmental Protection Agency unveiled plans Thursday to significantly strengthen lead emissions standards, in the first revision of the regulations for 30 years.
Major Arctic sea ice melt is expected this summer
(AP) -- The Arctic will remain on thinning ice, and climate warming is expected to begin affecting the Antarctic also, scientists said Friday. "The long-term prognosis is not very...
Temporary cooling trend may offset warming
NEW YORK, May 2 (UPI) -- German scientists said temporary climate variations may temporarily offset the long-term global warming trend.
E. Coli In Charles River Found To Be High After Long Periods Without Rain: New Model Developed
It is a common belief that the water quality of the Charles River and other lakes, streams and rivers is at its worst after a large rainfall because of pollutants...
Will Global Warming Take A Short Break? Improved Climate Predictions Suggest A Reduced Warming Trend During The Next 10 Years
To date climate change projections, as published in the last IPCC report, only considered changes in future atmospheric composition. This strategy is appropriate for long-term changes in climate such as...
Inner Earth filled with 'peanut butter'?
Like the gooey center of a chocolate morsel harboring peanut butter and honey, inner Earth is far more nuanced than outward appearances would suggest.
Blobs Inside Earth Like Peanut Butter
Core, mantle, crust, right? Sorry, not so simple.
Patent Law Battle a Boon to Lobbyists
In 15 months, two dueling business coalitions have spent $4.3 million lobbying on legislation that calls for the biggest changes in United States patent law in more than 50 years.
Experiments for kids: Ear gongs
You can't walk through a wall, so you'd think that sound would travel through air more easily than through something solid. Not so!
Morgan Stanley to add up to 500 jobs with new Montreal technology centre
Morgan Stanley, the big U.S. investment bank, will build a $200-million high-tech centre in Montreal to support its New York-based global operations, it announced Thursday.
Opinion: 'You shall not murder'
Each year in Alaska fur bearing animals are killed in a 'glorious hunt' by people like the Mighty Trapper, writes Walt Brasch.
Treasure trove found in 500-year-old shipwreck off Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- The ship was laden with tons of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins - and cannons to fend off pirates. But it had nothing to...
Military expertise put to work in Canada's Arctic mapping research
Canada's efforts to claim a vast area of the Arctic Ocean as its own are getting some help from the military, which has deployed its own devices to aid researchers...
Red Tide Killer Identified: Bacteria Gang Up On Algae, Quashing Red Tide Blooms
Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have identified a potential "red tide killer." Red tides and related phenomena in which microscopic algae accumulate rapidly in dense...
How Deep Is The Earth's Crust Under Europe?
A new model of Europe's Earth's crust has been made. The Earth's crust is, on global average around 40 kilometers deep. In relation to the total diameter of the Earth...
Pittsburgh surpasses Los Angeles as nation's sootiest city
(AP) -- A city outside California has for the first time been named the sootiest in the nation, one of the categories the American Lung Association uses to determine...
Increasingly intense storms threaten coral
A British scientist suggests hurricanes and other storms are increasing in intensity and are limiting the growth of some corals.
Wakame Waste: Composting Polluted Seaweed
Bacteria that feed on seaweed could help in the disposal of pollutants in the world's oceans, according to a new study. Researchers explain that as marine pollution is on the...
Feature: China - the rise of the green city
China’s rapid urbanisation is cause for concern, but remarkable initiatives in cities such as Rizhao, Wuhan and Beijing are leading to a broader endorsement of sustainability principles, write Matthew Levinson...
Soil can clean toxic waste
Research has found that microbes naturally present in Australian soil could be the most efficient way to break down contaminants and toxic waste in the environment.