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Save the Ozone Layer, Give Global Warming a Boost?
At last the Antarctic ozone hole is repairing itself, but ironically the healing process will hasten global warming in the southern hemisphere, a new study shows.
3 Questions: Bradford Hager on Haiti’s coming quakes
Bradford Hager, MIT’s Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Earth Sciences, studies problems that involve the deformation of Earth, including the strain that occurs before, during and after an earthquake. By analyzing the...
Australia Topples U.S. Wind Record
New Hampshire's Mount Washington Recorded World's Fastest Gust in 1934, but It's Discovered a 1996 Australian Cyclone Beat It
The sea level has been rising and falling over the last 2500 years
'Rising and falling sea levels over relatively short periods do not indicate long-term trends. An assessment of hundreds and thousands of years shows that what seems an irregular phenomenon today...
Study documents reaction rates for three chemicals with high global warming potential
A study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provides new information about the rates at which three of the most powerful greenhouse...
Managing ecosystems in a changing climate
Global warming may impair the ability of ecosystems to perform vital services - such as providing food, clean water and carbon sequestration - says the nation's largest organisation of ecological...
Monitoring peatland from Earth and space
Scientists have developed a technique for monitoring the condition of peatlands by capturing images from Earth and space to measure spatial patterning. This method could help monitor peatland damage. Such...
Spring ozone increases over North America
BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 26 (UPI) -- University of Colorado scientists say they and their colleagues have linked western North American springtime ozone increases to emissions from other regions.
China's odd climate-change remark
NEW DELHI, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- China's top climate-change negotiator said he was keeping an open mind on whether global warming was man-made or the result of natural cycles.
Groundbreaking research shows platelets can reproduce in circulation
SALT LAKE CITY -- University of Utah researchers led an international team of scientists that is the first to report on the previously undescribed ability of platelets to reproduce...
Environmental change impacts Oklahoma rivers
Biodiversity in freshwater systems is impacted as much or more by environmental change than tropical rain forests, according to new research. Biodiversity in freshwater systems is impacted as much or...
Compressed gas as Nabucco alternative?
TBILISI, Georgia, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Shipping compressed natural gas from Azerbaijan could provide an alternative to the Nabucco gas pipeline for Europe, the government in Tbilisi said.
Haiti reconstruction will require local input
Montreal, January 26, 2010 -- Destruction in Haiti, the result of a January 12 earthquake, is staggering. The majority of the capital city of Port-au-Prince will have to be...
Environmental Damage on the St. Lawrence River
More than half a century after the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959, Clarkson University biologist Michael R. Twiss is among a corps of scientists charting the environmental...
Private sector outlines plan to protect Coral Triangle
'This first ever Coral Triangle Business Summit has been a great success and the private sector has shown it is willing to take greater responsibility for the millions of livelihoods...
Device simulates deep-sea floor conditions in lab
Understanding how deep-sea floor rocks and sediments interact with surrounding fluids and gasses is difficult to access. But a device created by two University of Illinois at Chicago geoscientists will...
Braskem aims for the skies
Brazil’s Braskem merges with its rival Quattor Petroquimica to become the Americas largest resin producer
Discovery of algae's toxic hunting habits could help curb fish kills
A microbe commonly found in the Chesapeake Bay and other waterways emits a poison not just to protect itself but to stun and immobilize the prey it plans to eat.
Turning Trash Piles Into a Bird-Watcher’s Paradise
Every other month, the Parks Department leads birders through what it plans to call Freshkills, which until not long ago was just a garbage dump on Staten Island.
Researchers Determine Winter Moisture Linked to Rapid Glacial Climate Shifts
(PhysOrg.com) -- If past records regarding periods of warming and cooling climate are an accurate indication of weather patterns, then the southwestern United States is likely headed into a period...
Letters: Blame BBC and Met Office for poor forecast
Michael Fish fails to recognise why the BBC and the Met Office share the blame for poor public confidence in forecasts, particularly those on television (Fair weather friends, 19 January).In the early 1970s...
Geoscientists Drill Deepest Hole in Ocean Crust in Scientific Ocean Drilling History
(PhysOrg.com) -- For eight weeks beginning in November 2009, off the coast of New Zealand, an international team of 34 scientists and 92 support staff and crew on board the...
Findings: Corporate Backing for Research? Get Over It
Accusations of financial conflict of interest against the chairman of the United Nations climate panel sidelined substantive debate on scientific issues.
Bad water could make power
Researchers are developing a machine that turns hot, salty groundwater into drinking water and electricity.
Bigger corn plants bully smaller neighbors in no-till fields
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - It might not look like there's much going on in those roadside corn fields, but a Purdue University researcher has shown that corn plants are in...
Strongest Hurricanes May Triple in Frequency, Study Says
The U.S. Southeast, Mexico, and the Caribbean will be pounded by more very intense hurricanes in the coming decades due to global warming, a new computer model suggests.
Okla. city embracing greener gas
OWASSO, Okla., Jan. 25 (UPI) -- A city official in Owasso, Okla., said a planned filling station will offer local motorists access to a more environmentally friendly form of...
Himalayan snow melting in winter too, say scientists
Areas of the Himalayas are experiencing winter snow melt, Indian data reveals, which could affect regional river patterns.