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Baffin Bay polar bear hunting quota to be cut
The Nunavut government is reducing the number of polar bears that hunters can kill in the Baffin Bay region, where polar bear numbers have been disputed by scientists and Inuit.
Statoil submits license for Gudrun field
STAVANGER, Norway, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Norwegian energy giant Statoil announced it submitted plans to lawmakers regarding development of the Gudrun field in the North Sea.
Met Office wants re-examination of 150 years of climate data
Plan comes at a time when public conviction about the threat of climate change has declined sharply after questions over the scienceThe Met Office has called for a re-examination of more than 150...
Temperature Trackers Watch Our Watery World Wax and Wane
Climatologists have long known that human-produced greenhouse gases have been the dominant drivers of Earth's observed warming since the start of the Industrial Revolution. But other factors also affect our...
UN weather meeting agrees to refine climate data
World weather agencies have agreed to collect more precise temperature data to improve climate change science.
Iran eyes oil pipeline to Armenia
TEHRAN, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Iran aims to increase oil exports to northern neighbor Armenia through a 217-mile pipeline, the Iranian deputy oil minister said Wednesday.
Nabucco officials express optimism
SOFIA, Bulgaria, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Project backers scheduled a 2011 launch date for the construction of the Nabucco pipeline to transport Iraqi, Turkmen and Azeri natural gas, officials...
Waste could generate up to 7 percent of electricity in Spain
Researchers from the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) have calculated the energy and economic potential of urban solid waste, sludge from water treatment plants and livestock slurry for generating electricity in...
Barents Sea: An effective ocean cooler
Stronger ocean currents have transported more heat to the Barents Sea over the last years. Despite this extra heat, the mean temperature has only increased modestly. The reason is a...
Geologists look for answers in Antarctica: Did ice exist at equator some 300 million years ago?
Focusing on a controversial hypothesis that ice existed at the equator some 300 million years ago during the late Paleozoic Period, researchers have begun a project in search of clues...
SDSC's TeacherTECH Science Series Workshops to be Aired Locally, Nationally Starting March 1
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego has announced that beginning March 1, selected workshops from its widely acclaimed TeacherTECH Science Series will begin airing locally...
Understanding nitrogen's role in the ocean
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...
Rapid response science missions assess potential for another major Haiti earthquake
To help assess the potential threat of more large earthquakes in Haiti and nearby areas, scientists at The University of Texas at Austin's Institute for Geophysics are co-leading three expeditions...
2010 DOE INCITE Projects Allocated at ORNL
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers will lead projects that have been awarded a total of 251 million processor hours of computing time on supercomputers located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory...
Winter Olympics Science Notes: Skeleton
Shake your head as hard as you can for about one minute. That's how aerospace engineer Timothy Wei describes the sport of skeleton. And by the way, within that minute,...
Waiting to Inhale: Deep-Ocean Low-Oxygen Zones Spreading to Shallower Coastal Waters
A plague of oxygen-deprived waters from the deep ocean is creeping up over the continental shelves off the Pacific Northwest and forcing marine species there to relocate or die. Since...
New NASA Web Page Sheds Light on Science of Warming World
NASA has launched a new Web page to help people better understand the causes and effects of Earth's changing climate.
EU to issue clean car strategy in May
BRUSSELS, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- The European Commission is preparing a clean car strategy to green the continent's roads.
CEO of PAX Water Technologies to Speak at ORNL's Global Venture Challenge
Peter Fiske, president and chief executive officer of PAX Water Technologies, will be the keynote speaker for the 2010 Global Venture Challenge March 25-26 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The Physics of Figure Skating
Figure skating is one of the most popular sports in the winter Olympics. In this exclusive Scientific American video, contributing editor Christie Nicholson takes you inside the sport, to explore...
Futuristic Kitchen Needs No Pot and Pans
A compact, shape-shifting, all-in-one cooking station aims to do away with pots and pans forever.
Red Sea corals mapped in unprecedented detail
Maps reveal effects of past climates.
Reefs form on 'ancient template'
Coral reefs in the Red Sea form on an ancient seabed template, which creates their complex shape, say scientists.
Dalai Lama to 'tweet' on Tibet
The Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has joined micro-blogging service Twitter, attracting over 55,000 followers in just two days.
Brazil’s carbon debt ‘would take 250 years to pay’
A mathematical model has calculated that the use of sugarcane ethanol and soyabean ethanol will each contribute nearly half of Brazil’s projected deforestation by 2020.
100 Years Ago: Madame Curie's Research
MARCH 1960 MODERN AGRICULTURE --?“The 20th-century Israelites came to a land of encroaching sand dunes along a once-verdant coast, of malarial swamps and naked limestone hills from which an estimated...
Chile bets on algae-based biofuels
Three Chilean consortia will engage in the research and development of ethanol from algae with an investment of US$31 million.
Emissions vows not enough to avoid 2 deg C rise: UN
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Emission cuts pledges made by 60 countries will not be enough to keep the average global temperature rise at 2 degrees Celsius or less, modeling...