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Improved air quality during Beijing Olympics could inform pollution-curbing policies

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The air in Beijing during the 2008 Olympics was cleaner than the previous year's, due to aggressive efforts by the Chinese government to curtail traffic, increase emissions standards and halt construction in preparation for ...


Air pollution from freeway extends further than previously thought

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Environmental health researchers from UCLA, the University of Southern California and the California Air Resources Board have found that during the hours before sunrise, freeway air pollution extends much further than previously ...


The WHO estimates that two million people die every year as a result of air pollution

Lethal air pollution booms in emerging nations

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 3

International experts are warning that potentially lethal air pollution has boomed in fast-growing big cities in Asia and South America in recent decades.





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Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss

Beyond sunlight: Explorers census 17,650 ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight - creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid ...


New Method to Measure Snow, Soil Moisture With GPS May Benefit Meteorologists, Farmers

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(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 ...


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Rosetta spacecraft may help unravel cosmic mystery (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

When Europe's comet chaser Rosetta swings by Earth tomorrow for a critical gravity assist, tracking data will be collected to precisely measure the satellite's change in orbital energy. The results could help ...


Warming drives off Cape Cod's namesake, other fish

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Fishermen have known for years that they've had to steam farther and farther from shore to find the cod, haddock and winter flounder that typically fill dinner plates in New England.


Caribbean, Gulf spared widespread coral damage

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(AP) -- Lower-than-feared sea temperatures this summer gave a break to fragile coral reefs across the Caribbean and the central Gulf of Mexico that were damaged in recent years, scientists said Thursday.


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Car That Runs on Compressed Air Questioned by Critics (w/ Video)

Technology / Energy

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (21) | comments 38

(PhysOrg.com) -- As electric cars begin breaking into the short-distance vehicle market, one French company thinks that it has an alternative to the electric vehicle: a car that runs on compressed air. Motor ...


SMOS, Proba-2 new ESA satellites successfully lofted into orbit

SMOS, Proba-2: Two new ESA satellites successfully lofted into orbit (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The second satellite in ESA's Earth Explorer series - the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission - and the second demonstration satellite under ESA's Project for Onboard Autonomy ...


Ocean acidification may contribute to global shellfish decline

Ocean acidification may contribute to global shellfish decline

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Relatively minor increases in ocean acidity brought about by high levels of carbon dioxide have significant detrimental effects on the growth, development, and survival of hard clams, bay scallops, and Eastern ...


Baja watching Tropical Storm Patricia in the latest GOES-11 satellite movie

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The nineteenth tropical cyclone of the Eastern Pacific formed over this past weekend, and strengthened into Tropical Storm Patricia. The GOES-11 satellite captured Patricia from her "birth" several hundred miles south of ...


NASA Portable Hyperbaric Chamber Technology Finds Home on Earth

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has signed a patent license agreement with a California company to improve the medical community's access to hyperbaric chambers used to treat many medical conditions and emergencies.



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