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EU: bluefin tuna catches to be reduced

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The EU Commission says over 45 countries who catch tuna have agreed to cut catches of the threatened Atlantic bluefin tuna next year.


Researchers Discover Use for Carbon Dioxide in Conversion of Biomass Into Biofuel

Researchers Discover Use for Carbon Dioxide in Conversion of Biomass Into Biofuel

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (14) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Columbia University have successfully discovered a beneficial use for carbon dioxide in the conversion of organic materials, such as grass and bark, into fuel. Their findings ...


Rice research gets a leg up on understanding plant reactions to environment

Rice research gets a leg up on understanding plant reactions to environment

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

One might say plants don't have a leg to stand on, but that may actually give them a leg up on the animal kingdom when it comes to environmental adaptability.


Controversial new climate change results

Controversial new climate change results

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (48) | comments 131

(PhysOrg.com) -- New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of CO2 has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of CO2 having risen from about 2 billion ...


Shape perception in brain develops by itself

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Despite minimal exposure to the regular geometric objects found in developed countries, African tribal people perceive shapes as well as westerners, according to a new study.


Smithsonian scientists find the frog legs trade may facilitate spread of pathogens

Scientists find frog legs trade may facilitate spread of pathogens

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Most countries throughout the world participate in the $40-million-per-year culinary trade of frog legs in some way, with 75 percent of frog legs consumed in France, Belgium and the United States. Scientists ...


Peat fires drive temperatures up

Space & Earth / Environment

created 5 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | 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 ...


Thanksgiving last full day in space for shuttle (AP)

Thanksgiving last full day in space for shuttle

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Space shuttle Atlantis' astronauts will spend Thanksgiving checking their ship for the ride home.


Astronauts get extra moving time at space station (AP)

Astronauts get extra moving time at space station

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The astronauts aboard the shuttle-station complex are getting some extra moving time.


Oceans' uptake of manmade carbon may be slowing

Oceans' uptake of manmade carbon may be slowing

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (23) | comments 10

The oceans play a key role in regulating climate, absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide that humans put into the air. Now, the first year-by-year accounting of this mechanism during the industrial ...



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