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Study Finds Oldest Trees Grow Slowest - Even as Youngsters
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Feb 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A newly published study has found that the oldest trees in the forest also grow the slowest - and they likely aren’t the prettiest.
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Study finds new relationship between gene duplication and alternative splicing in plants
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University of Georgia scientists looking to understand the genetic mechanisms of plant defense and growth have found for the first time in plants an inverse relationship between gene duplication and alternative ...
Space technology optimises windmill efficiency
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A French start-up company from ESA's Business Incubation Centre in the Netherlands has developed a small instrument to measure wind speed and direction from the ground up to heights of 200 ...
Archaeological study of ostrich eggshell beads collected from SDG site
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Ostrich eggshell (OES) beads from SDG site reflect primordial art and a kind of symbolic behavior of modern humans. Two different manufacturing pathways are usually used in the manufacture of OES beads in Upper Paleolithic. ...
Ecosia search engine fights climate change
Dec 04, 2009 |
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An Ecosia search engine launching Monday is counting on the world's fascination with the Internet to help save Brazilian rainforests and battle global warming.
Checklist for going solar
Dec 04, 2009 |
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With the sun setting before 5 p.m., solar power may be the last thing on your mind these days. But declining panel prices ans a federal tax credit make now a good time to at least investigate whether solar power might make ...
Samoan Tsunami wave was 46 feet high
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Dec 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The tsunami that killed more than 200 people in the Samoan islands and Tonga earlier this year towered up to 46 feet (14 meters) high - more then twice as tall as most of the buildings it slammed into, scientists ...
Greenhouse gas carbon dioxide ramps up aspen growth
Dec 04, 2009 |
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The rising level of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be fueling more than climate change. It could also be making some trees grow like crazy.
Global warming may require higher dams, stilts
Dec 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- With the world losing the battle against global warming so far, experts are warning that humans need to follow nature's example: Adapt or die.
Carbon and oxygen in tree rings can reveal past climate information
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Dec 03, 2009 |
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The analysis of carbon and oxygen isotopes embedded in tree rings may shed new light on past climate events in the Mackenzie Delta region of northern Canada.
Species down, disease up: Study shows biodiversity loss drives human infections
Dec 03, 2009 |
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The extinction of plant and animal species can be likened to emptying a museum of its collection, or dumping a cabinet full of potential medicines into the trash, or replacing every local cuisine with McDonald's burgers.
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