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ESA extends Envisat satellite mission

ESA extends Envisat satellite mission

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA Member States have unanimously voted to extend the Envisat mission through to 2013. Envisat - the world’s largest and most sophisticated satellite ever built - has been providing scientists ...





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European birds flock to warming Britain

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created Jul 30, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Researchers at Durham, the RSPB and Cambridge University have found that birds such as the Cirl Bunting and Dartford Warbler are becoming more common across a wide range of habitats in Britain as temperatures rise.


Seeing the tree from the forest: Predicting the future of plant communities

Seeing the tree from the forest: Predicting the future of plant communities

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The ability to envisage the future may be closer than you would think. A recent paper by Sean Hammond and Karl Niklas in the August 2009 issue of the American Journal of Botany presents an algorithm that m ...


Impact Of Global Warming On Weather Patterns Underestimated

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created Sep 22, 2005 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (12) | comments 0

The impact of global warming on European weather patterns has been underestimated, according to a new report published in Nature this week.


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Google tracking flu outbreaks in 16 more countries

Technology / Internet

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Google on Thursday expanded a flu-tracking tool to include 16 more countries, analyzing local patterns in search queries to determine the spread of the influenza.


Do labour market trends worsen mental health in the young?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mental health in young people worsens in line with trends in the labour market. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health studied data from 1985 to 2002 and found that, across ten European countrie ...


Are the Alps growing or shrinking?

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The Alps are growing just as quickly in height, as they are shrinking. This paradoxical result could be proven by a group of German and Swiss geoscientists. Due to glaciers and rivers about exactly the same amount of material ...


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Google launches online flu shot finder

Technology / Internet

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Google on Tuesday launched an online tool for tracking down where to get vaccinations against H1N1 and seasonal influenza in the United States.


Scientists resolve long-standing puzzle in climate science

Scientists resolve long-standing puzzle in climate science

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (43) | comments 54

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by Livermore scientists has helped reconcile the differences between simulated and observed temperature trends in the tropics.


New study shows world's protected areas threatened by climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 10, 2007 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Climate change will affect national parks, forest reserves and other protected areas around the world, in some cases altering conditions so severely that the resulting environments will be virtually new to the planet, according ...


Climate change effects seen in sugar maple

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created Apr 24, 2006 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In Ohio and New England, and through Canada, the maple sugaring season starts and ends earlier than a generation ago -- a sign of warming climate trends.



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