http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- A fundamental rule of wildlife ecology says that diverse habitats foster greater biodiversity: The Amazon has far more species than Greenland. But how do habitat and biodiversity relate in a state like Wisconsin, with its range of farms, forests, wetlands, cities, suburbs and highways? http://www.physorg.com/news180186280.html Biology Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:00:05 EST news180186280 An island-sized iceberg is breaking up as it drifts closer to Australia, producing hundreds of smaller slabs spread over a massive area of ocean, experts said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news179994041.html Space & Earth Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:21:28 EST news179994041 (AP) -- Ships in the south Pacific Ocean have been alerted that hundreds of icebergs believed to have split off Antarctic ice shelves are drifting north toward New Zealand, officials said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news178297000.html Space & Earth Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:30:01 EST news178297000 (AP) -- Standing on the shore under the relentless Central Asian sun, Badarkhan Prikeyev drew on a cigarette and squinted into the distance as one fishing boat after another returned with the day's catch. http://www.physorg.com/news175692945.html Space & Earth Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:00:01 EST news175692945 Australia has been stripped bare of vegetation to expose the surface that lies beneath. http://www.physorg.com/news173624767.html Space & Earth Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:06:45 EST news173624767 Marty was still holding onto tropical storm status on September 18, with maximum sustained winds near 40 mph and taking a slow march through the Eastern Pacific Ocean. http://www.physorg.com/news172512688.html Space & Earth Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:12:01 EST news172512688 The Arctic sea ice pack thawed to its third smallest size on record during the northern hemisphere summer of 2009, US government scientists said, citing satellite images. http://www.physorg.com/news172505676.html Space & Earth Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:30:03 EST news172505676 Researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) and small business Geosemble Technologies are improving Air Force situational awareness with software that presents vast amounts of map data in a more manageable format for its commanders in theater. http://www.physorg.com/news168100217.html Technology Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:31:01 EST news168100217 One of the biggest glaciers in the southern hemisphere shrivelled by a fifth in 40 years, French scientists said on Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news167479149.html Space & Earth Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:20:02 EST news167479149 New research, which reconstructs the extent of ice in the sea between Greenland and Svalbard from the 13th century to the present indicates that there has never been so little sea ice as there is now. The research results from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, are published in the scientific journal, Climate Dynamics. http://www.physorg.com/news165668875.html Space & Earth Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:00:02 EST news165668875 In 1906, Mount Speke, one the highest peaks of Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains was covered with 217 hectares (536 acres) of ice, according to the Climate Change Unit at Uganda's ministry of water and environment. In 2006, only 18.5 hectares remained. http://www.physorg.com/news164255301.html Space & Earth Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:30:01 EST news164255301 (AP) -- Scientists looking for lost penguins stumbled upon an effective method: Follow their poop from space. http://www.physorg.com/news163141205.html Biology Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:00:35 EST news163141205 Motorway-sized troughs and channels carved into Antarctica's continental shelves by glaciers thousands of years ago could help scientists to predict future sea-level rise according to a report in the journal Geology this month (May). http://www.physorg.com/news160734415.html Space & Earth Tue, 05 May 2009 09:27:17 EST news160734415 (PhysOrg.com) -- Satellite images show that icebergs have begun to calve from the northern front of the Wilkins Ice Shelf - indicating that the huge shelf has become unstable. This follows the collapse three weeks ago of the ice bridge that had previously linked the Antarctic mainland to Charcot Island. http://www.physorg.com/news160141181.html Space & Earth Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:41:09 EST news160141181 (PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have made an unexpected find using a polarimeter (an instrument used to measure the wave properties of light) funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), that has the potential to affect future climate models. http://www.physorg.com/news153507391.html Space & Earth Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:56:59 EST news153507391