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(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists at The University of Western Ontario have shown that insects exposed to repeated periods of cold will trade reproduction for immediate survival. http://www.physorg.com/news178391046.html Biology Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:05:32 EST news178391046 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists hope to improve the survival odds of the endangered snow leopard in Nepal by venturing into the remote Himalayas to study its main prey, the Bharal or blue sheep. http://www.physorg.com/news176720093.html Biology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:55:25 EST news176720093 Chinese meteorologists covered Beijing in snow Sunday after seeding clouds to bring winter weather to the capital in an effort to combat a lingering drought, state media reported. http://www.physorg.com/news176293628.html Space & Earth Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:27:56 EST news176293628 A research project 10 years in the making is now orbiting the Earth, much to the delight of its creator Rohit Trivedi, a senior metallurgist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory. Equipment recently delivered to the International Space Station by the Space Shuttle Discovery will allow the Earth-bound Trivedi to conduct crystal growth experiments he first conceived more than a decade ago. http://www.physorg.com/news172756816.html Physics Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:03:42 EST news172756816 The U.S. Geological Survey has released the results of a long-term study of key glaciers in western North America, reporting this month that glacial shrinkage is rapid and accelerating and a result of climate change. http://www.physorg.com/news170941320.html Space & Earth Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:43:16 EST news170941320 (AP) -- While Microsoft Corp. prepares to release the next incarnation of Windows on Oct. 22, Apple Inc. is cutting ahead, launching a new version of its operating system for Mac computers on Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news170527795.html Technology Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:50:29 EST news170527795 Apple announced on Monday that its next-generation Snow Leopard operating system tailored for the California company's Macintosh computers will be unleashed on the market on Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news170334628.html Technology Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:40:02 EST news170334628 (AP) -- Villagers from deeply Roman Catholic south Switzerland have for centuries offered a sacred vow to God to protect them from the advancing ice mass of the Great Aletsch glacier. http://www.physorg.com/news168777353.html Space & Earth Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:36:22 EST news168777353 (PhysOrg.com) -- What do the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone," global climate change, and acid rain have in common? They're all a result of human impacts to Earth's biology, chemistry and geology, and the natural cycles that involve all three. http://www.physorg.com/news168598594.html Space & Earth Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:09:20 EST news168598594 The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced today that the Afghanistan's National Environment Protection Agency (NEPA), in an effort to safeguard its natural heritage, has released the country's first-ever list of protected species now banned from hunting or harvest. http://www.physorg.com/news163330977.html Biology Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:48:12 EST news163330977 There has been sharp disagreement in recent years about how much, or even whether, winter snowpack has declined in the Cascade Mountains of Washington and Oregon during the last half-century. http://www.physorg.com/news161358125.html Space & Earth Tue, 12 May 2009 14:42:35 EST news161358125 Arctic reindeer herders are facing the challenges of adapting to climate change as a warmer Arctic climate makes it harder for herds to find food and navigate. To help them adapt, the ESA-backed Polar View initiative is providing them with satellite-based snow maps. http://www.physorg.com/news157817892.html Space & Earth Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:18:49 EST news157817892 (PhysOrg.com) -- Exquisitely detailed and beautifully symmetrical, the snowflakes that David Griffeath makes are icy jewels of art. http://www.physorg.com/news154715124.html Other Sciences Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:28:12 EST news154715124 The streets were strangely quiet as I walked my daughter to school Tuesday morning. Baby stroller traffic jams are the norm in our south London neighborhood, nicknamed the "Nappy Valley" for its prodigious birthrate. But we were alone as we tripped along through the remnants of London's biggest snowfall in 18 years. http://www.physorg.com/news152987864.html Space & Earth Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:38:46 EST news152987864 (PhysOrg.com) -- Snow that blows and drifts across roadways has long troubled road maintenance crews and commuters alike, creating treacherous driving conditions and requiring additional maintenance resources to mitigate the problem. http://www.physorg.com/news152469203.html Technology Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:34:31 EST news152469203 (PhysOrg.com) -- Lipstick and takeout food are not a panacea for dwindling retirement accounts and the anxiety of global economic woes. http://www.physorg.com/news152385593.html Other Sciences Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:20:17 EST news152385593 Soot from pollution causes winter snowpacks to warm, shrink and warm some more. This continuous cycle sends snowmelt streaming down mountains as much as a month early, a new study finds. How pollution affects a mountain range's natural water reservoirs is important for water resource managers in the western United States and Canada who plan for hydroelectricity generation, fisheries and farming. http://www.physorg.com/news150983710.html Space & Earth Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:55:10 EST news150983710 Everybody knows that skiers swishing down steep slopes can cause extensive slab avalanches. But there is a less well known phenomenon: A person skiing a gentle slope in the valley triggers a slab avalanche on a steeper slope, sometimes several hundred meters further uphill. This scenario doesn't seem to make sense - yet it claims human lives year after year. http://www.physorg.com/news147449264.html Physics Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:07:44 EST news147449264 (PhysOrg.com) -- The next soil sample that NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will deliver to its deck instruments will go to the fourth of the four cells of Phoenix's wet chemistry laboratory, according to the Phoenix team's current plans. http://www.physorg.com/news140287341.html Space & Earth Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:42:21 EST news140287341 (PhysOrg.com) -- A distinctive hard-surface feature called "Snow Queen" beneath NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander visibly changed sometime between mid-June and mid-July, close-up images from the Robotic Arm Camera show. http://www.physorg.com/news136645719.html Space & Earth Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:08:39 EST news136645719 Scientists in Illinois and Pennsylvania are reporting development of a way to make the antifreeze protein that enables billions of Canadian snow fleas to survive frigid winter temperatures. http://www.physorg.com/news135863044.html Chemistry Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:44:04 EST news135863044 NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is using its Robotic Arm to enlarge an exposure of hard subsurface material expected to yield a sample of ice-rich soil for analysis in one of the lander's ovens. http://www.physorg.com/news135359082.html Space & Earth Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:44:42 EST news135359082 According to a new study, global warming could lead to larger changes in snowmelt in the western United States than was previously thought, possibly increasing wildfire risk and creating new water management challenges for agriculture, ecosystems and urban populations. http://www.physorg.com/news135357885.html Space & Earth Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:24:45 EST news135357885