News tagged with east
UK University to probe integrity of climate data
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A British university said Thursday it would investigate whether scientists at its prestigious Climatic Research Unit fudged data on global warming.
Volatile gas could turn Rwandan lake into a freshwater time bomb
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 16, 2009 |
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A dangerous level of carbon dioxide and methane gas haunts Lake Kivu, the freshwater lake system bordering Rwanda and the Republic of Congo.
Tropical regions to be hardest hit by fisheries shifts caused by climate change
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Major shifts in fisheries distribution due to climate change will affect food security in tropical regions most adversely, according to a study led by the Sea Around Us Project at The University of British Columbia.
Perennial energy crops could be good for carbon savings and for wildlife
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Growing the energy crops short rotation coppice (SRC) willow and miscanthus grass could help the UK to reduce carbon emissions and benefit wildlife, according to researchers from the UK Research Councils’ ...
Humans lend a hand to critically endangered waterbird
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Human impact on one of the world's most threatened bird species can be beneficial rather than destructive - and could even save it from extinction - according to counterintuitive new findings by the University ...
Early agriculture left traces in animal bones
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Unraveling the origins of agriculture in different regions around the globe has been a challenge for archeologists. Now researchers writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences report finding evidence of ear ...
Skin color studies on tadpoles lead to cancer advance
Jan 29, 2009 |
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The humble tadpole could provide the key to developing effective anti-skin cancer drugs, thanks to a groundbreaking discovery by researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA).
Geoengineering could complement mitigation to cool the climate
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 28, 2009 |
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The first comprehensive assessment of the climate cooling potential of different geoengineering schemes has been carried out by researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA).
Caspian Tiger Extinct But Lives On In Siberian Tiger
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Jan 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The extraordinary Caspian Tiger became extinct over 40-years ago. Through modern genetic analysis it has been discovered the Caspian Tiger and the Siberian or Amur Tiger still in existence ...
How monkey murder brought British coastal towns together
Jan 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How two British coastal communities, hundreds of miles apart, came to be associated with a centuries-old tale of monkey murder has been investigated as part of a new study.
Sedimentary records link Himalayan erosion rates and monsoon intensity through time
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 10, 2008 |
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Throughout history, the changing fortunes of human societies in Asia have been linked to variations in the precipitation resulting from seasonal monsoons.
Study: Israelis have abandoned belief of peacefully integrating into the Middle East
Oct 29, 2008 |
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For decades, Israelis have sought to teach Arabs and Muslims that the existence of a Jewish state was a permanent fact of life. Israelis have thought that once Arab and Muslim belief in the state's permanence could be established, ...
Scientists probe Antarctic glaciers for clues to past and future sea level
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 28, 2008 |
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Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have teamed up to explore two of the last uncharted regions of Earth, the Aurora and Wilkes Subglacial Basins, immense ice-buried lowlands in Antarctica with a combined area the ...
New Atlas to Reveal Landscape and Undiscovered Archeological Sites in 3-D
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New methods developed at the University of Arkansas will make decades-old satellite imagery readily available to archeologists and others who need to know what a landscape looked like before ...
UC Davis researcher begins study of Osama bin Laden audio tapes
Sep 10, 2008 |
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More than 1,500 audiocassette tapes taken in 2001 from Osama bin Laden's former residential compound in Qandahar, Afghanistan, are yielding new insights into the radical Islamic militant leader's intellectual development ...
