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New radar helps monitor site of century-old tragedy
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Alberta researcher has turned the site of a southern Alberta rockslide tragedy into the proving ground for new equipment meant to avert such a disaster in the future.
Past regional cold and warm periods linked to natural climate drivers
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Intervals of regional warmth and cold in the past are linked to the El Niño phenomenon and the so-called "North Atlantic Oscillation" in the Northern hemisphere's jet stream, according to a team of climate scientists. These ...
Oceanic crust formation is dynamic after all
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Imagine the Earth's crust as the planet's skin: Some areas are old and wrinkled while others have a fresher, more youthful sheen, as if they had been regularly lathered with lotion.
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NASA's Aqua satellite sees Nida explode into a category 5 Super typhoon
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Aqua satellite sees Tropical Storm Bongani approaching Mozambique Channel
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Small faults in Southeast Spain reduce earthquake risk of larger ones
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Ships warned about icebergs headed for New Zealand
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From Greenhouse to Icehouse
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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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Oceans absorbing carbon dioxide more slowly, scientist finds
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The world's oceans are absorbing less carbon dioxide (CO2), a Yale geophysicist has found after pooling data taken over the past 50 years. With the oceans currently absorbing over 40 percent of the CO2 emitted by human activity, ...
Researchers Establish Common Seasonal Patterns Among Bacterial Communities in Arctic Rivers
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research on bacterial communities throughout six large Arctic river ecosystems reveals predictable temporal patterns, suggesting that scientists could use these communities as markers ...
Icebergs head from Antarctica for New Zealand
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(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.
LSU gets to the bottom of things -- in Antarctica
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Nov 24, 2009 |
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Antarctica has long held secrets of the earth's history locked in its icy depths, and until recently, there has been very little information on the environments that have been sealed beneath miles of ice for millions of years. ...
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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Nov 23, 2009 |
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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.
Using new technique, scientists find 11 times more aftershocks for 2004 quake
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a technique normally used for detecting weak tremor, scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology discovered that the 2004 magnitude 6 earthquake along the Parkfield section of the San Andreas ...
Antarctic ice loss vaster, faster than thought: study
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The East Antarctic icesheet, once seen as largely unaffected by global warming, has lost billions of tonnes of ice since 2006 and could boost sea levels in the future, according to a new study.
El Nino intensifies Latin America drought
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From a devastating food crisis in Guatemala to water cuts in Venezuela, El Nino has compounded drought damage across Latin America this year.
New Method to Measure Snow, Soil Moisture With GPS May Benefit Meteorologists, Farmers
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected ...
International expedition investigates climate change, alternative fuels in Arctic
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Nov 20, 2009 |
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Scientists from the Marine Biogeochemistry and Geology and Geophysics sections of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) organized and led a team of university and government scientists on an Arctic expedition ...
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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(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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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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(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 ...
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Oceans' uptake of manmade carbon may be slowing
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QuikScat and Aqua providing important data on Tropical Storm Anja
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El Nino Could Play A Role In Colorado's Winter Weather, Scientist Says
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Cyclone Anja hits wind shear, weakens drastically
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Volatile gas could turn Rwandan lake into a freshwater time bomb
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Ancient high-altitude trees grow faster as temperatures rise
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TRMM satellite mapped 'Ida the Low's' rainfall from space (w/ Video)
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Terra satellite spots Tropical Cyclone Anja, the first of the southern season
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Optical properties of the Antarctic system and new radiation information
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Warmer means windier on world's biggest lake
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Taiwan to boost quake warning system
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Underwater robot probes depths for Istanbul quake clues
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El Nino Picking Up Steam
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Russia gains new land after quake, lava flows: scientist
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Cyclone Phyan raining on Tibet after breaking a record in India
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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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