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Climate 'Tipping Points' May Arrive Without Warning, Says Top Forecaster

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new University of California, Davis, study by a top ecological forecaster says it is harder than experts thought to predict when sudden shifts in Earth's natural systems will occur -- a worrisome finding ...


38 percent of world's surface in danger of desertification

38 percent of world's surface in danger of desertification

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A team of Spanish researchers has measured the degradation of the planet's soil using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), a scientific methodology that analyses the environmental impact of human activities, and ...


URI researcher calls for global effort to monitor marine pollutants

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A University of Rhode Island researcher who studies chemical pollutants in the marine environment has called on colleagues around the world to establish a global monitoring network to verify that the chemicals banned by the ...




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Whalers, activists clash again off Antarctica (AP)

Whalers, activists clash again off Antarctica

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created Feb 07, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 11

(AP) -- Anti-whaling ship the Bob Barker and a Japanese harpoon boat collided in icy Antarctic waters in the second major clash this year in increasingly aggressive confrontations between conservationists ...


Urban growth, farm exports drive tropical deforestation

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created Feb 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The biggest causes of deforestation in tropical countries are population growth in cities and agricultural exports, a finding that should shape decisions on preventing forest loss, experts said Sunday.



Only 26 percent of the Netherlands is below sea level, according to Dutch authorities

Netherlands adds to UN climate report controversy

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created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 22

The Netherlands has asked the UN climate change panel to explain an inaccurate claim in a landmark 2007 report that more than half the country was below sea level, the Dutch government said Friday.


Oceans reveal further impacts of climate change, says UAB expert

Oceans reveal further impacts of climate change, says UAB expert

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created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (11) | comments 12

The increasing acidity of the world's oceans - and that acidity's growing threat to marine species - are definitive proof that the atmospheric carbon dioxide that is causing climate change is also negatively ...


Penn State clears climate researcher on 3 charges; 1 still pending

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created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (10) | comments 4

A Pennsylvania State University committee Wednesday cleared climate researcher Michael Mann of professional-misconduct charges but said it would further investigate whether the scientist "deviated from accepted practices."


According to new survey, Americans support strong climate, energy policies

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created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (8) | comments 5

Despite a sharp drop in public concern over global warming, Americans—regardless of political affiliation—support the passage of federal climate and energy policies, according to the results of a national survey released ...


Michigan renews push to close Chicago ship locks

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created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Michigan wants the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider its refusal to close Chicago-area shipping locks in hopes of keeping Asian carp out of the Great Lakes.


Enlisting a drug discovery technique in the battle against global warming

Enlisting a drug discovery technique in the battle against global warming

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created Feb 03, 2010 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Scientists in Texas are reporting that a technique used in the search for new drugs could also be used in the quest to discover new, environmentally friendly materials for fighting global warming. Such materials ...


Greenhouse surprise for red meat

Greenhouse surprise for red meat

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created Feb 03, 2010 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Beef produced in feedlots has a smaller carbon footprint than meat raised exclusively on pastures, according to the surprise results of a new study.


Storm runoff and sewage treatment outflow contaminated with household pesticides

Storm runoff and sewage treatment outflow contaminated with household pesticides

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created Feb 02, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pyrethroids, among the most widely-used home pesticides, are winding up in California rivers at levels toxic to some stream-dwellers, possibly endangering the food supply of fish and other ...


Ecologists discover forests are growing faster

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created Feb 01, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (28) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

Speed is not a word typically associated with trees; they can take centuries to grow. However, a new study to be published the week of Feb. 1 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found evidence that f ...


Plantations can provide the same ecosystem services as natural forests

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created Feb 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Not all plantations need to be the biological deserts that have come to characterize large-scale, industrial plantations. According to scientists in a paper out in February's issue of the journal Frontiers in Ecology and th ...


Glacier-melting debate highlights importance of satellites

Glacier-melting debate highlights importance of satellites

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created Feb 01, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 27

The intense public debate on how rapidly the Himalayan glaciers are retreating highlights the necessity for the constant monitoring of glaciers worldwide by satellites.


A glacier in the Everest region

UN climate panel based claims on student essay: report

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created Jan 31, 2010 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (9) | comments 26

The UN climate change panel based claims about ice disappearing from the world's mountain peaks on a student essay and an article in a mountaineering magazine, a British newspaper reported Sunday.


Coral in Florida Keys suffers lethal hit from cold

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created Jan 30, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 8

Bitter cold this month may have wiped out many of the shallow water corals in the Keys.




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