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Chile quake occurred in zone of 'increased stress'
The massive, 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chile Feb. 27 occurred in an offshore zone that was under increased stress caused by a 1960 quake of magnitude 9.5, according to geologist...
Technip lands Nord Stream contract
PARIS, March 18 (UPI) -- French construction giant Technip announced Thursday it was awarded a contract to work on the two parallel lines of the Nord Stream natural gas...
Deforestation conference to turn plans to action
(AP) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy will open a daylong conference Thursday of some 40 nations to start turning plans into action to save the world's forests and help...
Kentucky Congressman Ben Chandler Receives Excellence in Soil Stewardship Award
Award recognizes his support of agriculture and conservation.
Mixed reviews for Canada’s science budget
Canadian budget proposal would give research councils an extra C$32 million annually, but some say it’s not enough
Water Found in Apollo Moon Rocks
It turns out evidence for water on the moon was right under our noses all along, according to new studies of rocks retrieved by Apollo astronauts.
Pioneering Mass. robot lost at sea off Chile coast
FALMOUTH, Mass. (AP) -- A pioneering deep-sea robot made by Massachusetts researchers has been lost off the coast of Chile....
January freeze killed acres of Fla. coral
MIAMI, March 9 (UPI) -- A January chill in South Florida killed hundreds of acres of corals in the Florida Keys, scientists say.
Trichodesmium: the world's most famous nitrogen fixer
Editor's Note: Journalist and crew member Kathryn Eident and scientist Jeremy Jacquot are traveling on board the RV Atlantis on a monthlong voyage to sample and study nitrogen fixation in...
Shellfish could supplant tree-ring climate data
Temperature records gleaned from clamshells reveal accuracy of Norse sagas.
Historic deep space network antenna starts major surgery
Like a hard-driving athlete whose joints need help, the giant "Mars antenna" at NASA's Deep Space Network site in Goldstone, Calif. has begun major, delicate surgery. The operation on the...
Video: China's Booming Green Industry
Although China has the reputation of being a major polluter, it has a green industry that is booming and creating thousands of jobs. Celia Hatton reports.
Increased solar radiation requires additional CO2 reduction of 50 million tonnes, analysis finds
The recently observed reduction in air pollution implies that more solar radiation reaches Earth’s surface. This could lead to a far more rapid increase in Earth’s temperature in the coming...
EU backs Black Sea environmental group
BRUSSELS, March 9 (UPI) -- EU members need to take action to contribute to the environmental well-being of the Black Sea, a Romanian delegation said in Brussels.
Pakistani farmers protest water shortages
KARACHI, Pakistan, March 9 (UPI) -- Thousands of farmers in the southern Pakistani province of Sindh squabbled with irrigation officials they blame for a lack of drinking and irrigation...
Centuries-old shipwrecks discovered in Baltic
A dozen centuries-old shipwrecks have been found in the Baltic Sea by a gas company building an underwater pipeline between Russia and Germany, Swedish experts say.
Growing Cities Worsen Earthquake Tolls
Worsening Quake Problem Not Below Ground, But Above; More People, Poor Buildings, More Deaths
Coming clean on emissions outsourcing
Study details proportion of developed countries carbon dioxide emissions that are ‘outsourced’ to emerging economies
Feature: Climate emails in perspective
A new report looks into why the infamous climate emails caused so much trouble, and what their contents mean.
Scatterometry: measuring ever-smaller chip production
As computer chips rapidly continue to evolve, new technologies must be developed to closely monitor the fabrication process and guard against faults at a sub-microscopic level.
Turkey Earthquake Pictures: The Day After
A strong earthquake rattled eastern Turkey Sunday, killing at least 51 and crumbling minarets, barns, and flimsily built mud-brick houses.
Lords in science investment call
Former Labour and Conservative science ministers challenge the next UK government to maintain investment in science.
GE: Limit PCB contamination during Hudson dredging
(AP) -- General Electric Co. on Monday proposed a halting further dredging of the Hudson River if PCBs churned up by the work spread too much pollution downriver during...
Musk ox population decline due to climate, not to humans, study finds
A team of scientists has discovered that the drastic decline in Arctic musk ox populations that began roughly 12,000 years ago was due to a warming climate rather than to...
AGU Journal highlights -- March 8, 2010
The following highlights summarize research papers that have recently been published in Geophysical Research Letters (GRL). In this release:
Ocean 'termites' could be key to biofuels
Once the scourge of the seven seas because of their appetite for wooden sailing ships, gribbles could hold the secret to turning wood into biofuels.
The trouble with trusting complex science | George Monbiot
There is no simple way to battle public hostility to climate research. As the psychologists show, facts barely sway us anywayThere is one question that no one who denies manmade climate change wants...
Cool model for a hot planet
In his recent book, "Strategic Bargaining and Cooperation in Greenhouse Gas Mitigations," Binghamton University's Zili Yang suggests ways governments might realistically work together to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. He also...