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NASA Releases New Image of Massive Greenland Iceberg
On Aug. 5, 2010, an enormous chunk of ice, about 251 square kilometers (97 square miles) in size, or roughly four times the size of Manhattan, broke off the Petermann...
Ukraine meets July gas payments
KIEV, Ukraine, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- The natural gas debt for July gas deliveries from Russia to Ukraine was paid in full by Ukrainian utility company Naftogaz, the company...
Study: Rainforest ecosystems at risk
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Up to 80 percent of the world's rainforests could be destroyed by climate change by the next century, a study of ecosystems...
Ancient Hawaiian glaciers reveal clues to global climate impacts
Boulders deposited by an ancient glacier that once covered the summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii have provided more evidence of the extraordinary power and reach of...
Global tropical forests threatened by 2100
By 2100 only 18% to 45% of the plants and animals making up ecosystems in global, humid tropical forests may remain as we know them today, according to a new...
Tiny robot proves adept wall climber
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- A robot that can climb like a human rock climber may have many applications, its inventor says, but he also admits it's...
Seasickness, and Mutualistic Bacterial Mats
Researchers aboard the Atlantis take their first dive with the Alvin submersible and pick up rocks coated in gooey layers of single-cell organisms that eat methane.
UN panel: New taxes needed for a climate fund
(AP) -- British economist Nicholas Stern says a U.N. economic panel is discussing carbon taxes, add-ons to international air fares and a levy on cross-border money transfers as ways...
Forget Your Lawn, Water the Trees, Say Horticulture Experts
Intense heat and less-than-half of normal rainfall this past July in the Northeast have left landscapes dry this summer. Two Cornell experts provide advice: Water trees and shrubs, but not...
EPA eyes Alaska's drinking water
JUNEAU, Alaska, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- More than 6,800 residents in Alaska may be unknowingly drinking water that contains harmful levels of chlorine disinfectants, the EPA announced. ...
Russia wildfires still spreading
Russia battles against nearly 600 wildfires as reinforcements arrive from abroad and the death toll hits 50.
Roadmap for robot helpers
The humble robot cleaning your floor heralds a wave of robot helpers, from miners to surgeons, that could be joining us in the coming decades. How should the industry prepare...
Second Hottest July on Record as El Nino Fade Continues
Average temperatures for the globe, as well as the northern and southern hemispheres, went up in July despite the continued cooling of the El Nino Pacific Ocean warming event and...
First nearshore survey of Antarctic krill reveals high density, stable population in shallow waters
Using smaller vessels that allow access to shallow, nearshore waters, researchers from Stony Brook University and the Southwest Fisheries Science Centre conducted the first multi-year survey of the population of...
Biofuel study looks at cost to wildlife and environmental diversity
Whether we can grow bio-energy crops such as switchgrass and forage sorghum isn't the question, said a Texas AgriLife Research scientist...
WWF, Green Home cautiously welcome Montenegro dams rethink
WWF and Green Home, its partner NGO in Montenegro, today welcomed the Montenegrin government's decision to call off the original plans for four dams on the Moraca River, which would...
Virginia Tech Lands National Science Foundation Award for HokieSpeed
Two million dollars is coming to Virginia Tech to create HokieSpeed, a versatile new supercomputing instrument for accelerating and transforming discovery and innovation across a myriad of disciplines.
BP jams gulf well with drilling mud
Officials aren't ready to declare the well dead but say that stopping the upward thrust of oil and gas is a 'very significant step.' BP's long and halting effort to bring an...
Kalia Journal: Dead Sea Feeds Promises of an Economic Bloom
The Dead Sea may be shrinking, but the governments of Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority see opportunities for cooperation and growth there.
Colorado Candidate Warns of Bicycle Plot
"This is all very well-disguised, but it will be exposed," a Tea Party favorite tells supporters.
Looking for the oil? NOAA says it's mostly gone
By SETH BORENSTEIN 2010-08-04T22:07:00Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- With a startling report that some researchers call more spin than science,...
Where has all the oil gone?
There is now optimism about the speed and scale of the remaining clean-up operation after the worst environmental disaster in US history.
Academy's mollusk collection plays key role in Gulf oil impact study
Unknown to most non-scientists, the nation's oldest mollusk collection resides four floors above one of Philadelphia's busiest tourist areas and is now being pressed into action to determine the impact...
The Real Urban Jungle
New book helps readers understand urban ecosystem ecology and how to manage their impacts through green infrastructure planning.
BP's European drill plans draw criticism
BRUSSELS, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- The European Union is probing whether to recommend an offshore drilling moratorium as criticism of BP's plan to begin drilling for oil in the...
Scalding water kills too many seniors: coroner
A Quebec coroner is sounding the alarm over a growing number of cases of seniors being killed by scalding water.
Laying Claim to the Rich Arctic Seafloor
Attempts to prove that a nation's continental shelf extends beyond a 200-mile limit for staking mineral rights.
Poland and Lithuania discuss gas pipeline
VILNIUS, Lithuania, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- The European Union could fund a portion of a natural gas pipeline discussed by Polish and Lithuanian officials, a gas company said. ...