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Study: Mortgage Losses On Owner-Occupied Homes Lower Than Assumed
Oct 01, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Homeowners who are struggling with mortgages for their own residences are a relatively small part of the overall mortgage crisis, according to results of a new nationwide study of consumer balance sheets.
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Retirees' health-care benefits at risk, study warns
Aug 18, 2009 |
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A nearly two-decade trend that is stripping away employer-provided health-care benefits for retirees in private business will likely continue and could soon hit an even deeper pool of government retirees, new research by ...
NASA survey confirms climate warming impact on polar ice sheets
Mar 08, 2006 |
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In the most comprehensive survey ever undertaken of the massive ice sheets covering both Greenland and Antarctica, NASA scientists confirm climate warming is changing how much water remains locked in Earth's ...
When accounting for the global nitrogen budget, don't forget fish
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 24, 2008 |
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Like bank accounts, the nutrient cycles that influence the natural world are regulated by inputs and outputs. If a routine withdrawal is overlooked, balance sheets become inaccurate. Over time, overlooked deductions can undermine ...
Large methane release could cause abrupt climate change as happened 635 million years ago
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May 28, 2008 |
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An abrupt release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, about 635 million years ago from ice sheets that then extended to Earth’s low latitudes caused a dramatic shift in climate, triggering a series of events ...
Antarctic ice loss speeds up, nearly matches Greenland loss
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Jan 24, 2008 |
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Ice loss in Antarctica increased by 75 percent in the last 10 years due to a speed-up in the flow of its glaciers and is now nearly as great as that observed in Greenland, according to a new, comprehensive study by UC Irvine ...
Tax rebates not a quick fix for the economy
Jan 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If last year's tax rebates are any indication, one-time payments from the government are a weak economic stimulus, say economists at the University of Michigan.
Unravelling the 'inconvenient truth' of glacier movement
Jun 27, 2008 |
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Predicting climate change depends on many factors not properly included in current forecasting models, such as how the major polar ice caps will move in the event of melting around their edges. This in turn requires greater ...
Astronaut balancing act: Training to help explorers adapt to a return to gravity
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Astronauts returning from challenging long-duration missions face one more challenge when they get back to Earth - standing up and walking.
China first out of global financial crisis, says leading expert
Jul 28, 2009 |
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China is the first major economy to start emerging from the global economic crisis, according to Dr Nicholas Lardy, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics at Washington DC. This ...
Just in the time for holiday shoppers: Personal finance professor offers advice on breaking credit addiction
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An October survey of 3,800 consumers by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling found that more than two thirds (68 percent) planned to pay in cash for their holiday purchases this year, ...
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