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A new study that reconstructed ocean temperatures from millions of years ago could provide new insight into how the Earth responds to climate change.
Supervolcano eruption -- in Sumatra -- deforested India 73,000 years ago
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A new study provides "incontrovertible evidence" that the volcanic super-eruption of Toba on the island of Sumatra about 73,000 years ago deforested much of central India, some 3,000 miles from the epicenter, ...
Intensive land management leaves Europe without carbon sinks
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A new calculation of Europe's greenhouse gas balance shows that emissions of methane and nitrous oxide tip the balance and eliminate Europe's terrestrial sink of greenhouse gases.
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Using new technique, scientists find 11 times more aftershocks for 2004 quake
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Antarctic ice loss vaster, faster than thought: study
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El Nino intensifies Latin America drought
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Nov 20, 2009 |
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New Method to Measure Snow, Soil Moisture With GPS May Benefit Meteorologists, Farmers
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International expedition investigates climate change, alternative fuels in Arctic
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Using superconducting probes to get a picture of what it's like inside CNTs,
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Researchers Find Innate Correlations Among Different Power Law Phenomena,
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Building a more versatile laser,
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H1N1 Virus Can Be Killed by Acidic Ozone Water,
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New Digital 'Electronics' Concept May Continue Moore's Law,
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After mastodons and mammoths, a transformed landscape
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Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America's vast assemblage of large animals -- including such iconic creatures as mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, ground ...
Rich Ore Deposits Linked to Ancient Atmosphere
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Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Much of our planet's mineral wealth was deposited billions of years ago when Earth's chemical cycles were different from today's. Using geochemical clues from rocks nearly 3 billion years old, a group of ...
Paleontologists find extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings during mass extinctions
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Nov 19, 2009 |
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Arnie Miller, University of Cincinnati professor of paleontology in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, and co-author Michael Foote of the University of Chicago publish their research in the Nov. 20 issue ...
Mysteriously warm times in Antarctica
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Nov 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of Antarctica's past climate reveals that temperatures during the warm periods between ice ages (interglacials) may have been higher than previously thought. The latest analysis ...
Oceans' uptake of manmade carbon may be slowing
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Nov 18, 2009 |
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The oceans play a key role in regulating climate, absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide that humans put into the air. Now, the first year-by-year accounting of this mechanism during the industrial ...
QuikScat and Aqua providing important data on Tropical Storm Anja
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Nov 18, 2009 |
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Anja has continued to weaken over the last 24 hours, and NASA's QuikScat satellite has confirmed that the once mighty Category 4 Cyclone is now a tropical storm in the southern Indian Ocean. Two instruments ...
El Nino Could Play A Role In Colorado's Winter Weather, Scientist Says
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Nov 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- El Nino, a warming event of the tropical Pacific Ocean that affects weather patterns in the United States and elsewhere, has strengthened in recent months and already appears to have influenced Colorado's ...
Cyclone Anja hits wind shear, weakens drastically
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Nov 17, 2009 |
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This morning, Cyclone Anja was a powerful Category 4 cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Wind shear has now giving Anja a strong "punch in the gut" as the storm has weakened to a Category 1 cyclone.
Volatile gas could turn Rwandan lake into a freshwater time bomb
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Nov 16, 2009 |
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A dangerous level of carbon dioxide and methane gas haunts Lake Kivu, the freshwater lake system bordering Rwanda and the Republic of Congo.
Ancient high-altitude trees grow faster as temperatures rise
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Nov 16, 2009 |
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PIC=32536:left]Increasing temperatures at high altitudes are fueling the post-1950 growth spurt seen in bristlecone pines, the world's oldest trees, according to new research.
TRMM satellite mapped 'Ida the Low's' rainfall from space (w/ Video)
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Nov 16, 2009 |
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The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite known as "TRMM" has the ability to measure rainfall from space, and assessed the heavy rainfall from last week's coastal low pressure area, formerly known ...
Terra satellite spots Tropical Cyclone Anja, the first of the southern season
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Nov 16, 2009 |
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NASA's Terra satellite captured a stunning image of Anja, the first tropical cyclone of the southern Hemisphere cyclone season. When Anja formed on Saturday, November 14, in the Southern Indian Ocean, about ...
Optical properties of the Antarctic system and new radiation information
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Nov 16, 2009 |
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The Antarctic system comprises of the continent itself, Antarctica, and the ocean surrounding it, the Southern Ocean. In a study for a doctoral degree by geophysicist Kai Rasmus, University of Helsinki, Finland, measurements ...
Warmer means windier on world's biggest lake
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Nov 15, 2009 |
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Rising water temperatures are kicking up more powerful winds on Lake Superior, with consequences for currents, biological cycles, pollution and more on the world's largest lake and its smaller brethren.
Taiwan to boost quake warning system
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Nov 15, 2009 |
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Taiwan plans to build its first undersea seismic station, designed to improve the island's early warning system and save valuable seconds when earthquakes strike, officials said.
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Underwater robot probes depths for Istanbul quake clues
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Nov 14, 2009 |
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El Nino Picking Up Steam
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Nov 13, 2009 |
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Russia gains new land after quake, lava flows: scientist
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Nov 13, 2009 |
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Cyclone Phyan raining on Tibet after breaking a record in India
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Nov 13, 2009 |
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Satellite imagery confirms Ida's low is finally moving away from the east coast
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Former Ida a huge rainmaker, causing flooding in the Mid-Atlantic
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Greenland ice cap melting faster than ever
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A glimpse at the Earth's crust deep below the Atlantic
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Record high temperatures far outpace record lows across US (w/ Video)
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Nov 12, 2009 |
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Discoveries in the Deep
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Giant Antarctic iceberg heads towards N.Zealand: experts
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Alberta's hidden valleys offer both resources and danger
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Ida now a coastal low assaulting the Mid-Atlantic
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How much water does the ocean have?
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SEA to conduct expedition dedicated to measuring plastic marine debris in the North Atlantic Ocean
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Earth's early ocean cooled more than a billion years earlier than thought (w/ Video)
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Early life on Earth may have developed more quickly than thought (w/ Video)
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Atomic Particles Help Solve Planetary Puzzle
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Nov 10, 2009 |
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Cave study links climate change to California droughts
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Nov 10, 2009 |
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Noise Evidence Could Expand Hurricane Record
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