News tagged with geographers
UCLA geographers urge U.S. to search 3 structures in Pakistan for bin Laden
Feb 17, 2009 |
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While U.S. intelligence officials have spent more than seven years searching fruitlessly for Osama bin Laden, UCLA geographers say they have a good idea of where the terrorist leader was at the end of 2001 ...
Rats say: Manhattan rules!
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Jan 12, 2009 |
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If you leave it up to the rats, New York City beats New Orleans any day.
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'Super-river' formed the English Channel
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Anglo-French scientists studying sedimentary deposits in the Bay of Biscay have concluded that Britain and France were separated by a "super-river" during three periods of glaciations, ...
By Simulating Gullies, Geographers Discover Ways to Tame Soil Erosion
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dead zones in critical waterways, accelerated loss of arable land and massive famines. They're all caused by the 24 billion tons of soil that are lost every year to erosion, a phenomenon that ...
'Soil dipstick': A thermometer for the Earth
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 01, 2009 |
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According to climate change experts, our planet has a fever -- melting glaciers are just one stark sign of the radical changes we can expect. But global warming's effects on farming and water resources is still a mystery. ...
New study urges new thinking over UK government widening participation policy
May 14, 2009 |
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Widening participation efforts in UK universities should do more than simply create a 'wow moment' for young people, according to a new study led by the University of Leicester.
Green neighborhoods may reduce childhood obesity
Oct 28, 2008 |
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Childhood obesity can lead to type 2 diabetes, asthma, hypertension, sleep apnea and emotional distress. Obese children and youth are likely to be obese as adults, experience more cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure ...
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 ...
UCLA study of satellite imagery casts doubt on surge's success in Baghdad
Sep 19, 2008 |
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By tracking the amount of light emitted by Baghdad neighborhoods at night, a team of UCLA geographers has uncovered fresh evidence that last year's U.S. troop surge in Iraq may not have been as effective at ...
Scientists discover a new Pacific iguana
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Sep 18, 2008 |
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A new iguana has been discovered in the central regions of Fiji. The colorful new species, named Brachylophus bulabula, joins only two other living Pacific iguana species, one of which is critically endangered. The scient ...
Study Links Warming of Indian Ocean to Decreased Rainfall in Africa
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 06, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A study led by a team of geographers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, suggests that warming of the Indian Ocean –– a direct result of climate change –– is to blame for a steep decline in ...
NASA data helps pinpoint impacted populations in disaster aftermath
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Jun 13, 2008 |
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When two catastrophic natural disasters struck within days of each other in May 2008, disaster relief, humanitarian aid, and health officials, as well as members of the news media tapped into a unique set ...
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