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New discoveries could improve climate projections

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New discoveries about the deep ocean's temperature variability and circulation system could help improve projections of future climate conditions.


From greenhouse to icehouse -- reconstructing the environment of the Voring Plateau

From greenhouse to icehouse -- reconstructing the environment of the Voring Plateau

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 1

The analysis of microfossils found in ocean sediment cores is illuminating the environmental conditions that prevailed at high latitudes during a critical period of Earth history.


New computer-developed map shows more extensive valley network on Mars

New computer-developed map shows more extensive valley network on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research adds to the growing body of evidence suggesting the Red Planet once had an ocean.


Sick of swine flu? Toxic algae could be the next big threat

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

With a new theory surfacing that toxic algae rather than asteroids killed the dinosaurs, scientists are still trying to unravel the mystery of what caused a massive algae bloom off the Northwest Coast that left thousands ...


Big freeze plunged Europe into ice age in months

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (17) | comments 7

In the film, 'The Day After Tomorrow' the world enters the icy grip of a new glacial period within the space of just a few weeks. Now new research shows that this scenario may not be so far from the truth after all.


The koala faces starvation as the nutritional quality of eucalyptus leaves declines, the report says

Koalas, penguins at risk of extinction: study

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Climate change threatens the survival of dozens of animal species from the emperor penguin to Australian koalas, according to a report released Monday at the UN climate summit.


Climate projections underestimate CO2 impact

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (16) | comments 2

The climate may be 30-50 percent more sensitive to atmospheric carbon dioxide in the long term than previously thought, according to a recent study published in Nature Geoscience.


Icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter may have conditions needed for life

Icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter may have conditions needed for life

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists once thought that life could originate only within a solar system's "habitable zone," where a planet would be neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on its surface. ...


From Greenhouse to Icehouse

From Greenhouse to Icehouse

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 9

A new study that reconstructed ocean temperatures from millions of years ago could provide new insight into how the Earth responds to climate change.


UAF chooses shipyard to build Alaska Region Research Vessel

UAF chooses shipyard to build Alaska Region Research Vessel

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

More than three decades ago, marine scientists in the United States first identified the need for a research vessel capable of bringing scientists to Alaska's icy northern waters.



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