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Indonesian volcano erupts for 3rd time in week
Indonesia's deadly volcano has unleashed another powerful eruption, spewing towering clouds of hot ash.
Cargo Ship Delivers Healthy Halloween Treats to Space Station
A new Russian cargo ship delivered tons of supplies to the International Space Station Saturday, including the treat of fresh fruit, just in time for Halloween.
Tagged narwhals track warming near Greenland
Scientists reported the southern Baffin Bay off West Greenland has continued warming since wintertime ocean temperatures were last effectively measured there in the early 2000s. Temperatures in the study were...
Halliburton cement at fault for BP spill?
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Halliburton and BP knew weeks ahead of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that the cement mixture used to seal the Macondo well was...
Britain announces marine 'planning' zones
LONDON, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- An area of the North Sea has been chosen as the first region off England's coast to be subject to a marine planning system,...
Canadian researchers 'see' how to capture CO2
The ability to keep CO2 out of the atmosphere to help prevent climate change is a global issue. The challenge is to use materials that can capture the CO2 and...
Root of the matter: A new map shows life-saving forests' scarcity defies past estimates
Countless people clung to life in the branches of trees hemming the shorelines during the deadly 2004 tsunami that killed more than 230,000 coastal residents in Indonesia, India, Thailand and...
Faculty Council meeting held Oct. 27
At its fifth meeting of the year on Oct. 27, the Faculty Council heard details of the forthcoming faculty retirement plan. The council next meets on Nov. 10. The preliminary...
December 2010 Lithosphere highlights
Boulder, CO, USA - The December 2010 Lithosphere analyzes tectonic histories across the Llano Uplift, Texas; activity along the ~85-mile-long Kern Canyon fault, southern Sierra Nevada; deformed...
Broad range of research presented to Geological Society of America
A robust geoscience program will draw thousands of curious minds to the Colorado Convention Center in Denver for the 122nd Annual Meeting & Exposition of the Geological Society of America,...
Without driver or map, vans go from Italy to China
Across Eastern Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan and the Gobi Desert - it certainly was a long way to go without getting lost.
Scientists issue call to action for archaeological sites threatened by rising seas
Should global warming cause sea levels to rise as predicted in coming decades, thousands of archaeological sites in coastal areas around the world will be lost to erosion. With no...
Earth's fiery past and future modeled by NASA
Wildfires may seem like a fixed and unchanging force of nature. They're not. Over long time scales, research has shown that both the climate and humans have a profound effect...
The new home of Envisat
ESAs Earth-observing satellite Envisat has moved to a lower orbit in order to conserve fuel and extend its life by three years, and is once again delivering invaluable data to...
Opinion: Living Sustainably
Professor Diana Bell describes the dangers of leaving room for ambivalence in the Basin Plan.
Lizard's sex linked to climate
The sex of snow skink lizards have been found to be influenced by altitudes and climate, indicating the species’ ability to adapt to climate.
November-December 2010 GSA Bulletin highlights
Boulder, CO, USA - Topics in the November-December 2010 GSA Bulletin include earthquake hazard assessment, tectonics, fault ruptures, paleo-earthquakes, magmatism, landslides, climate modeling, and...
Dot Earth: World Bank Pushes to Include Ecology in Accounting
The head of the World Bank urges countries to include ecosystems in their accounting of assets and liabilities. Can the bank itself heed his words?
Green: On Our Radar: Record Salmon Run in British Columbia
One hypothesis is that volcanic ash created an algae bloom in the Pacific that led to a population explosion.
Manganese exposure linked with intelligence quotient
A study suggests that girls from a Mexican mining town may have a low intelligence quotient because of their environmental exposure to manganese.
IPCC vice-chair: Attacks on climate science echo tobacco industry tactics
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele says rows over 'climategate' emails and Himalayan glaciers were organised to undermine Copenhagen summitThe attacks on climate science that were made ahead of the Copenhagen climate change summit were "organised"...
US, Japan to diversify sources of rare earths: Japan FM
The United States and Japan will cooperate to diversify the sources of imports of rare earths needed in high-tech products, Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara said Wednesday.
Chiclones And Bombogenesis
Anyone in their late 20s who lived in Minnesota in 1991 remembers the record-setting Great Halloween Blizzard, which dropped several feet of snow across the state and bestowed upon children...
Sustainable seafood? Let's get smart
Barton Seaver is an advocate of sustainable seafood and a chef in Washington DC. His work tells the story of our common resources through the communion we all share -- dinner.Chef Barton...
UN probes base as source of Haiti cholera outbreak
(AP) -- U.N. investigators took samples of foul-smelling waste trickling behind a Nepalese peacekeeping base toward an infected river system on Wednesday, following persistent accusations that excrement from the...
Uranium City resident worries about dust
A man from Uranium City, in Saskatchewan's north, is concerned about the slow pace of environmental work in the area.
Green: Meet the 'Ladle of Love'
The truck is powered by an electric engine, travels at a maximum of 25 miles an hour and can travel 40 miles before it needs another charge from its three-pronged...
Did 'Snowball Earths' Trigger Animal Evolution?
An ice age–induced torrent of phosphorous may have pumped up the world's oxygen levels