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Idaho farmers growing vegetables with geothermal energy

Space & Earth / Environment

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Most people know about the geothermal system in Boise's Downtown and Warm Springs area. It's one of the oldest in the country.

Businesses see advantage in green buildings

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The Subway sandwich shop on Chicago's State Street may look like any other new restaurant, but its tile, crown molding and most wall coverings are made from recycled materials. In the bathroom, sensors control water flow, ...

Amazon at lowest level in over 40 years in Peru: experts

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The Amazon, the world's biggest river, is at its lowest level in over 40 years near its source in northeastern Peru, causing havoc in a region where it is used as the only form of travel, authorities said.

Thanks to high-tech, storm track easier to predict

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(AP) -- Sophisticated computer models that replaced instinct with cold, hard math have helped forecasters predict where a storm like Hurricane Earl is going about twice as accurately as 20 years ago.

Recipe for water: Just add starlight

Space & Earth / Astronomy

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ESA's (European Space Agency) Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that ultraviolet starlight is a key ingredient for making water in the atmosphere of some stars. It is the only explanation ...

Spectrum of young extrasolar planet yields surprising results

Space & Earth / Astronomy

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers at the University of Hawaii have measured the temperature of a young gas-giant planet around another star using the W. M. Keck Observatory, and the results are puzzling. They have ...

Climate: Risks loom for China: study

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Climate change could reduce key harvests in China by a fifth if the gloomiest scenarios prove true, according to a study on Wednesday.

Hurricane warnings posted on US East Coast, NASA sees Earl's heavy rainfall

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NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite looked at the rate rain was falling in Hurricane Earl yesterday, and it was intense.

Global Hawk drone aircraft flies over Frank on the GRIP hurricane mission

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NASA's 2010 hurricane experiment is in full swing as the tropics have heated up. NASA's Global Hawk unmanned aircraft was sent out over this past weekend to conduct measurements on then Tropical Storm Frank ...

Study finds commercial organic farms have better fruit and soil, lower environmental impact

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Side-by-side comparisons of organic and conventional strawberry farms and their fruit found the organic farms produced more flavorful and nutritious berries while leaving the soil healthier and more genetically diverse.

Extreme effects: Seven things you didn't know about Mercury

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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Pity poor Mercury. The tiny planet endures endless assaults by intense sunlight, powerful solar wind and high-speed miniature meteoroids called micrometeoroids. The planet's flimsy covering, the exosphere, ...

Critical polar data flows briskly to researchers

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Operation IceBridge -- a NASA airborne mission to observe changes in Earth's rapidly changing polar land ice and sea ice -- is soon to embark on its fourth field season in October. The mission is now paralleled ...

Water study: Is colloidal silver necessary for bacteria removal?

Space & Earth / Environment

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nicole Heinley, a graduate student at Missouri University of Science and Technology, traveled to Guatemala twice in the past year to conduct research on ceramic pot filters that are used locally ...

Infrared NASA image shows strong convection in new Atlantic Depression 9

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The Atlantic Ocean is in overdrive this week, and NASA satellite imagery captured the birth of the ninth tropical depression in the central Atlantic Ocean today, trailing to the east of Tropical Storm Fiona.

Fault finding: UCI seismologist finds far more frequent earthquakes along the San Andreas

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(PhysOrg.com) -- UCI seismologist Lisa Grant Ludwig finds far more frequent earthquakes along the San Andreas fault.

NIST ultraviolet source helps NASA spacecraft measure the origins of space weather

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With a brilliant, finely tuned spark of ultraviolet (UV) light, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology helped NASA scientists successfully position a crucial UV sensor inside a space-borne ...

NASA and NOAA's newest GOES satellite ready for action

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NASA and NOAA's latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-15, has successfully completed five months of on-orbit testing and has been accepted into service. The satellite has demonstrated ...

NASA infrared data sees convection building in Fiona's clouds

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Infrared satellite imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed some strong convection building in Tropical Storm Fiona, and her maximum sustained winds increased from 40 mph yesterday to 60 mph this morning