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UK climate scientist to temporarily step down (AP)

UK climate scientist to temporarily step down

Space & Earth / Environment

created 13 hours ago | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 10

(AP) -- The chief of a prestigious British research center caught in a storm of controversy over claims that he and others suppressed data about climate change has stepped down pending an investigation, the ...


Researchers look at water-energy impacts of climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created 15 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate projections for the next 50 to 100 years forecast increasingly frequent severe droughts and heat waves across the American Southwest, sinking available water levels even as rising mercury drives up ...


Making sense of greenhouse gas accounting

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Waste management is increasingly gaining the recognition that it deserves as a major contributor to mitigating climate change. But with at least four different methods of accounting for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions currently ...


First Step To Success steps up in Albuquerque schools

First Step To Success steps up in Albuquerque schools

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A school-based behavioral intervention program developed under a federal grant in the mid-1990s at the University of Oregon, already in widespread use, now has shown real value on a complex stage, scoring ...


World forest observatory needed to monitor vital role of forests in climate deal

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A new scientific organisation is needed to monitor the commitments that will be made by developing countries at Copenhagen to cut their deforestation rates, according to research at the University of Leeds.


Climate change in Kuwait Bay

Climate change in Kuwait Bay

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (13) | comments 1

Since 1985, seawater temperature in Kuwait Bay, northern Arabian Gulf, has increased on average 0.6°C per decade. This is about three times faster than the global average rate reported by the Intergovernmental ...


Sharp shows plant making 10th generation panels (AP)

Sharp shows plant making 10th generation panels

Technology / Business

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Huge sheets of glass are guided by robotic arms, sliding and turning in a towering germ-free plant, the world's first making giant "10th generation" panels for flat screen TVs.


Peat fires drive temperatures up

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Peatlands, especially those in tropical regions, sequester gigantic amounts of organic carbon. Human activities are now having a considerable impact on these wetlands. For example, drainage projects, in combination with the ...


Parent mentors can improve the asthmatic care of minority children, researchers find

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that informed adults can help families stave off complications associated with asthma. The findings, available online and in the December issue of Pediatrics, suggest that i ...


A farmer droving his sheep, northwest of Melbourne

Australian scientists aim to reduce sheep burps

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 29, 2009 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (6) | comments 9

Australian scientists are working to breed a sheep that belches less, as they look for ways to reduce harmful methane emissions from the country's woolly flocks, a researcher said Sunday.



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