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New 'walking' fishes discovered in Gulf oil-spill zone
Pancake batfishes may be getting oiled before they get named
Researcher on NRC Report: Emission Choices Made Now Can Lock in Climate Changes for Centuries to Millennia
Choices made now about carbon dioxide emissions reductions will affect climate change far into the future.
N.W.T. board seeks own lake mercury tests
Officials in the Northwest Territories' Sahtu region want to conduct their own tests for mercury in area lakes, bypassing the work of federal scientists.
Pictures: New Cap Stops Gulf Oil Spill, BP Says
See the saga of the containment caps, from the removal of the old "top hat" to the installation of the new one, which BP said Thursday has finally stopped the...
EPA to educate on water conservation
WASHINGTON, July 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a program aimed at helping American consumers conserve water and save money, officials said. ...
Footloose glaciers crack up
Glaciers that lose their footing on the seafloor and begin floating behave very erratically, according to a new study led by a Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego researcher...
Caltech scientists measure changing lake depths on Titan
On Earth, lake levels rise and fall with the seasons and with longer-term climate changes, as precipitation, evaporation, and runoff add and remove liquid. Now, for the first time, scientists...
Steam process could remove CO2 to regenerate amine capture materials
Because they can remove carbon dioxide from the flue gases of coal-burning facilities such as power plants, solid materials containing amines are being extensively studied as part of potential CO2...
A Safe Room? a New Home Entertainment System? Choose the First
For 18 horrific hours on April 3, 1974, a cataclysmic group of tornados spun through and sacked 13 states and one Canadian province, ravaging some 900 square miles and killing...
Project’s Fate May Predict the Future of Mining
The Obama administration’s threat to curtail a major mountaintop mining project could signal a shift in federal mining policy.
Alberta tornado changed alert system
A devastating and deadly tornado that tore through an Alberta campground 10 years ago changed the way the province issues storm alerts.
UEA's delayed response to climate emails caused by shock, says professor
Former head of research unit responds to criticism by arguing for necessity of assessing excerpts by independent reviewsThe former head of the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, which was at the...
Opening the gate to the cell’s recycling center
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—In cells, as in cities, disposing of garbage and recycling anything that can be reused is an essential service. In both city and cell, health problems can arise...
Old Fighter Jets to Be Destroyed in Target Practice
Boeing is converting retired Lockheed-Martin F-16 fighter jets into QF-16 Drones for Air Force target practice. The USAF awarded Boeing the contract the convert the retired Fighting Falcon combat...
Sub-Saharan Africa news in brief: 1–14 July 2010
Namibia called to invest more in science, climate change-proof crops initiative launched, West Africa to boost renewable energy production, and more.
Hail shrunk by cloud seeding planes
The storm that pounded Calgary Monday with golf ball-sized hail would have been even more severe if cloud seeding planes hadn't been in the sky earlier in the day, says...
Seismology: The secret chatter of giant faults
An imminent swarm of tiny quakes beneath western North America could help seismologists prepare for a big one — but only if they can learn to interpret the tremors, finds...
BP explores B.C. coal methane reserves
BP has set up its first test well in B.C. to explore the possibility of extracting methane from coal in the Rocky Mountains in the province's southeast.
The lost legacy of the last great oil spill
Some ecosystems bounced back after the 1979 Ixtoc I oil spill, but research quickly withered.
A Warm Atlantic Stokes Hurricane Fears
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has warned that 2010 might well experience one of the busiest Atlantic hurricane seasons on record, with between 14 and 23 named storms.
SRNL works to decrease hazards from mold in water damaged homes
A team of microbiologists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) is working with Tuskegee University and Mississippi State University to decrease mold growth in flooded...
Pity the Toothless Pangolin
Chinese customs officials in southern Guangdong Province have intercepted a boat carrying nearly eight tons of frozen pangolin carcasses as well as 4,000 pounds of scales stripped from them. Six...
Google climate map offers a glimpse of a 4C world | Adam Vaughan
Interactive tool layering climate data over Google Earth maps shows the impact of an average global temperature rise of 4CThink it's hot this summer? Wait until you see Google's simulation of a...
Europe in fish debt to rest of the world
BARCELONA, Spain, July 14 (UPI) -- Starting last Friday, Europeans began to accumulate yet another debt -- fish debt, actually. ...
Delay now, pay later, Ban says on climate
UNITED NATIONS, July 14 (UPI) -- Delayed action in addressing climate change risks comes at a financial cost to the international community, the U.N. secretary-general said. ...
Fish kill investigated in P.E.I.
P.E.I. environment officials are investigating a kill of what may be thousands of fish in the Montrose River on the western end of the Island.
Scientists reportedly crack chicken-or-egg riddle
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The chicken, claim British scientists. Chicken - Home - Cooking - Poultry - Meat
China's wars, rebellions driven by climate: study
Two millennia of foreign invasions and internal wars in China were driven more by cooling climate than by feudalism, class struggle or bad government, a bold study released Wednesday argued.