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No link now between Eyjafjallajökull and climate change, but a warming world could trigger earthquakes, landslides and volcanoes later
Volcanoes, with their vast outpourings of greenhouse gases and sun-screening ash clouds, can affect climate. But what about the other way around?
CNOOC at full tilt at typhoon-hit fields
HONG KONG, April 21 (UPI) -- Full production at the Huizhou oilfields in the basin of the Pearl River in China resumed Wednesday, the China National Offshore Oil Corp....
Mine Slowly Swallowing Peruvian Town
Critics Say Town Paying Price for 100 Years of Unregulated Extraction, Toxic Dumping
How Iceland's volcano sears Kenya's crops | Waithaka Waihenya
Here, European airports' closure is not simply an inconvenience to travellers but an economic catastrophe for horticulturalistsWhen the Iceland volcano with an unpronounceable name erupted last week, most Kenyans must have reacted in...
Bolivian alternative climate conference begins
Disaffected countries and social groups are meeting en masse this week to agree what they want from the next UN Climate Conference.
Australia plans tough reef laws
Australia plans tough new laws to prevent shipping from entering areas around the delicate Great Barrier Reef.
Airlines, scientists split over impact of ash
PARIS (Reuters) - Experts disagree over how to measure the dispersal of volcanic ash and who should decide when it is safe to fly, as millions of travelers remain grounded...
Arctic leaders: Lancaster Sound plans in conflict
Officials in some of Nunavut's most northerly communities say they're getting mixed messages about Lancaster Sound, where the federal government has separate plans to create a conservation area and explore...
Iceland volcano causes fall in carbon emissions as eruption grounds aircraft
Cooling effect from volcano ash cloud will be 'very insignificant', but flight ban stops emission of estimated 2.8m tonnes of CO2The eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano is unlikely to have any significant impact...
A howling success: The fifth howler monkey census on Barro Colorado Island
The fifth Howler Monkey census at the Smithsonian's Barro Colorado Island research station in Panama, organized by Katie Milton, professor in the department of Environmental Science, Policy &...
Better mixing helps mining yield
Researchers are working to improve solution mining – where uranium is leached from the ground in liquid form – by stirring well.
UK sends warships to rescue stranded Britons
(AP) -- Britain sent Royal Navy warships on Monday to rescue those stranded across the Channel by the volcanic ash cloud, and the aviation industry blasted European transport...
Environmental pollution: A different kind of mine disaster
The world's largest antimony mine has become the world's largest laboratory for studying the environmental consequences of escaped antimony -- an element whose environmental and biological properties are still largely...
Seabed biodiversity in oxygen minimum zones
Some regions of the deep ocean floor support abundant populations of organisms, despite being overlain by water that contains very little oxygen, according to an international study. But global warming...
Scientists, farmers begin trials of self-pollinating almond trees in California
Every spring, thousands of beehives are trucked into the San Joaquin Valley in California for a massive pollination of almond trees.
Recipe: Squid Embroiled In International Politics
Possibly some of the more hotly contested fishing grounds in the world occur around the Falkland Islands, just off the Atlantic coast of South America. The islands themselves are a...
UK water imports 'unsustainable'
The amount of water used to produce food and goods imported to the UK is worsening global shortages, a report concludes.
Peru town copes with being devoured by mine
(AP) -- The mile-wide gash grows almost daily with each dynamite blast, slowly devouring this bleak provincial capital high in the Andes.
Eyjafjallajökull, Gígjökull, Jökulhlaup, Gosmökkur
Eyjafjallajökull, Gígjökull, Jökulhlaup, Gosmökkur The world is suddenly faced with the need to learn how to pronounce Islenska, the Icelandic language. With much of European airspace closed due to volcanic ash in...
GOES-13 is America's new GOES-EAST satellite
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite known as GOES-13 became the official GOES-EAST satellite on April 14, 2010. GOES-13 was moved from on-orbit storage and into active duty. It is perched...
Critical record of Afghanistan's natural heritage blooms again
The Wildlife Conservation Society announced the restoration of Kabul University's herbarium -a once-threatened collection of nearly 25,000 preserved plant specimens -in a multi-partner effort that will vastly improve ...
Canadian lynx in epic journey
DENVER, April 16 (UPI) -- A 9-year-old Canadian lynx has set a world record for making a 1,200 mile trek from Silverton, Colo., to Alberta, Canada, wildlife officials say.
China Earthquake Today: The Aftermath in Pictures
The "roof of the world"—the Tibetan Plateau—received a devastating jolt when a major earthquake struck Qinghai Province, China.
EARTH DAY PICTURES: Quirky Ways to Mark the Day
An undersea cleaning party and the world's largest baked alaska join the ranks of oddball events that have been held on Earth Days past to draw attention to...
Mine Tragedy Amid Push to Produce More
Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia, site of the worst U.S. mining accident since 1970, was one of the sites where Massey Energy was ramping up production to meet...
Octopus Guerrilla Filmmaker Steals Diver's Camera
An underwater photographer was peacefully cruising along a reef when this speedy octopus snaked out an arm and grabbed his Lumix away. The cephalopod then proceeded to jet away at...
PI Congratulates Cliff Burgess on CAP-CRM Prize
PI Associate Faculty Member Cliff Burgess wins 2010 CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
Iceland's Volcano Spews Unusual, Continental Rock
Iceland is the only place on Earth where land sits atop a mid-ocean spreading center, says Sheila Seaman, professor of geosciences. Eyjafjallajokull's eruption is of particular interest because it contains...