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Oceans' Uptake of Manmade Carbon May Be Slowing

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2 hours ago | 4.4 / 5 (8) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- 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 ...

Penn State scientist at center of a storm

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2 hours ago | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

A few words culled from some hacked e-mails in Britain have generated chaos in the world of climate science -- throwing dark clouds over Pennsylvania State University and stirring up negative publicity for the field that ...

Mediterranean Sea filled in less than two years: study

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3 hours ago | 4.8 / 5 (6) | 0

The Mediterranean Sea was mostly filled in less than two years in a dramatic flood around 5.33 million years ago in which water poured in from the Atlantic, according to a study published Wednesday.

Cyclone Cleo has reached its maximum wind speed

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5 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

NASA Satellites noticed that Tropical Cyclone Cleo had reached its maximum strength, and was now moving into areas that will weaken it. Cleo's maximum sustained winds were near 115 mph (100 knots), with gusts ...

Robot completes first underwater crossing of Atlantic Ocean

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6 hours ago | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 0

Spain on Wednesday handed back to the United States a robot which last week completed the first underwater crossing of the Atlantic Ocean to help monitor climate change by tracking temperatures.

UAF chooses shipyard to build Alaska Region Research Vessel

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9 hours ago | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

More than three decades ago, marine scientists in the United States first identified the need for a research vessel capable of bringing scientists to Alaska's icy northern waters.

Giant iceberg spotted south of Australia

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16 hours ago | 4.6 / 5 (7) | 12

A monster iceberg nearly twice the size of Hong Kong island has been spotted drifting towards Australia in what scientists Wednesday called a once-in-a-century event.

Better-than-new LIDAR provides 24/7 atmospheric aerosol data

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Dec 08, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from eight institutions led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has solved a software and hardware problem that had perplexed scientists studying atmospheric aerosols ...

Gravestones Talking through Time

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Dec 08, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (8) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A visit to your local graveyard can provide not only a history lesson, but a science lesson as well. Historians know that gravestones can reflect the lives of people whose memories are lost ...

NASA captures a visible image of Cleo's new eye

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Dec 08, 2009 | not rated yet | 1

The Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument that flies on NASA's Aqua satellite has amazing resolution from space, and captured Cleo's cloudless eye early this morning. Cleo has intensified ...

NASA's TRMM satellite sees Tropical Storm Cleo form in southern Indian Ocean

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Dec 08, 2009 | 2 / 5 (3) | 1

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite captured the birth of Tropical Storm Cleo in the southern Indian Ocean today, December 7.

Study on land plant fossils shows Paleoasian Ocean disappeared about 251 million years ago

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Dec 08, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

A latest discovery of land plant fossils from Heilongjiang, Northeast China shows that the Siberian Plate sutured with the North China Plate at the end of the Permian, and resulted in the final closure of the Paleoasian Ocean ...

Absence of evidence for a meteorite impact event 13,000 years ago

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Dec 08, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (15) | 11

An international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have found no evidence supporting an extraterrestrial impact event at the onset of the Younger Dryas ~13000 years ...

Lightning-produced radiation a potential health concern for air travelers

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Dec 07, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (9) | 7

New information about lightning-emitted X-rays, gamma rays and high-energy electrons during thunderstorms is prompting scientists to raise concerns about the potential for airline passengers and crews to be ...

Study: Earth more sensitive to carbon dioxide than previously thought

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Dec 06, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (36) | 68

In the long term, the Earth's temperature may be 30-50% more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide than has previously been estimated, reports a new study published in Nature Geoscience this week.