News tagged with dry valleys
Underground water reservoirs for the Jordan Valley
Water scarcity in the lower Jordan valley is extreme and political differences among the neighboring countries are high. To supply the population living in this region with sufficient clean water, Israeli, ...
Nov 18, 2011 |
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Sediments from the Enol lake reveal more than 13,500 years of environmental history
A team of Spanish researchers have used different geological samples, extracted from the Enol lake in Asturias, to show that the Holocene, a period that started 11,600 years ago, did not have a climate as ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 03, 2012 |
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Cactus may give farmers a cure for poisoned crop land
The prickly pear cactus may not sound like a trendy cash crop, but it could become a phenomenon among farmers on the arid west side of California's San Joaquin Valley.
Feb 02, 2012 |
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Trial by fire: A landscape-scale experiment in restoring Ozark glades
A giant experiment is under way at the Tyson Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis' 2,000-acre outdoor laboratory for ecosystem studies.
Jan 28, 2012 |
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New biodiversity map of the Andes shows species in dire need of protection
The Andes-Amazon basin of Peru and Bolivia is one of the most biologically rich and rapidly changing areas of the world. A new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Ecology has used information collec ...
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Investors clamor for Facebook's IPO
Wall Street is about to get Facebook fever. The social networking giant with nearly 1 billion users is expected to file papers any day now to sell stock to the public. The timing stems partly from federal rules that would ...
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Record air pollution hammers Calif's ag heartland
(AP) -- This is the time of year when residents who often live with the nation's worst pollution often can draw a breath of fresh air. But this winter has not been kind to people who want to play outside ...
Jan 08, 2012 |
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Two New Zealand scientists to travel to Antarctica to measure magnetic South Pole
(PhysOrg.com) -- While the rest of the world gets on with meeting the New Year head on, two research scientists from New Zealand are traveling to the Antarctic to take measurements of the magnet South Pole. ...
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Jan 02, 2012 |
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CA startup sees entrepreneur-ship as visa solution
(AP) -- You've heard of tech companies starting in a Silicon Valley garage. What about on a ship?
Dec 16, 2011 |
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Facebook, Greenpeace in truce over data centers
(AP) -- Facebook and Greenpeace have called a truce over a clean energy feud that had the environmental group using the social network's own platform to campaign against it.
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Dec 15, 2011 |
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Dashing through the snow, in a one-truck radar dish
SCHUSS. The term for a straight, downhill ski run. In the land of the Greatest Snow on Earth--Utah--SCHUSS is also the moniker for storm-chasing, Old Man Winter-style.
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Dec 07, 2011 |
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