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NASA Launches 'Eyes on the Earth 3-D'
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Mar 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New interactive features on NASA's Global Climate Change Web site give the public the opportunity to "fly along" with NASA's fleet of Earth science missions and observe Earth from a global ...
Final frontier: Mission to explore buried ancient Antarctic lake given green light
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Mar 02, 2009 |
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An international team of scientists led by the UK has been given the go-ahead to explore one of the planet's last great frontiers - an ancient lake hidden deep beneath Antarctica's ice sheet. Buried under ...
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Ancient rainforests resilient to climate change
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Oct 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate change wreaked havoc on the Earth’s first rainforests but they quickly bounced back, scientists reveal today. The findings of the research team, led by Dr Howard Falcon-Lang from Royal ...
Climate models don't tell the full story
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Oct 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate models that predict heavy rainfall don’t give the whole picture, according to the results of a study by NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) scientist Martin Ziegler. He examined ...
Rapid changes in the winter climate
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Aug 14, 2009 |
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The Baltic Sea winter climate has changed more in the last 500 years than previously thought. Research at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that our part of the world has experienced periods of both ...
Warmer climate not the cause of oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea
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Oct 13, 2009 |
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Oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea has never been greater than it is now. But it is not an effect of climate change but rather of increased inputs of nutrients and fertilisers. This is the finding of researchers at the University ...
Geoengineering climate requires more research, cautious consideration, appropriate restrictions
Jul 21, 2009 |
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deliberately manipulating physical, chemical, or biological aspects of the Earth system to confront climate change - could contribute to a comprehensive risk management strategy to slow climate change but could also create ...
Soil moisture and ocean salinity satellite ready for launch
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Oct 29, 2009 |
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A new European Earth observation satellite will be launched in the early hours of Monday morning (2 November 2009) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.
Paleoecologists offer new insight into how climate change will affect organisms
Nov 04, 2009 |
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An article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science written by a team of ecologists, including Robert Booth, assistant professor of earth and environmental science at Lehigh University, examines some of the po ...
Ozone: Climate change boosts ultraviolet risk for high latitudes
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Sep 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of Toronto have discovered that changes in the Earth's ozone layer due to climate change will reduce the amount of ultraviolet (UV) radiation in northern high ...
'Whitewash' could slow global warming: Peruvian scientist
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Nov 04, 2009 |
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A Peruvian scientist has called on his country to help slow the melting of Andean glaciers by daubing white paint on the rock and earth left behind by receding ice so they will absorb less heat.
Scientists propose Antarctic location for 'missing' ice sheet
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Aug 25, 2009 |
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New research by scientists at UC Santa Barbara indicates a possible Antarctic location for ice that seemed to be missing at a key point in climate history 34 million years ago. The research, which has important ...
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