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NASA sees cyclone Jasmine's power and new eye

Cyclone Jasmine continues to wind between New Caledonia and Vanuatu and bring cyclone-force winds, heavy rain and very rough surf. NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead early on February 7 and noticed the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Global extinction: Gradual doom is just as bad as abrupt

A painstakingly detailed investigation shows that mass extinctions need not be sudden events. The deadliest mass extinction of all took a long time to kill 90 percent of Earth's marine life, and it killed ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (20) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NASA's GCPEX mission: What we don't know about snow

Predicting the future is always a tricky business -- just watch a TV weather report. Weather forecasts have come a long way, but almost every season there's a snowstorm that seems to come out of nowhere, or ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Zimbabwe doctors report 800 typhoid cases

(AP) -- An independent doctors' group in Zimbabwe is reporting 800 cases of the bacterial disease typhoid in a recent outbreak.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA sees a weakening Cyclone Funso's 'closed eye'

Powerful Cyclone Funso's eye has been clear in NASA satellite imagery over the last several days until NASA's Aqua satellite noticed it had "closed" and become filled with high clouds on January 27.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Extreme droughts could increase by 15 percent in Spain by the middle of the century

A team at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena has designed a new method for calculating drought trends. Initial results suggest that by the year 2050 there could be a 15% increase compared to the droughts ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Older is better for hunting dogs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Older dogs and male dogs are better hunting companions than younger dogs and female dogs says the author of a new study on the hunting ability and nutritional status of domestic dogs in lowland ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Acid rain poses a previously unrecognized threat to Great Lakes sugar maples

(PhysOrg.com) -- The number of sugar maples in Upper Great Lakes forests is likely to decline in coming decades, according to University of Michigan ecologists and their colleagues, due to a previously unrecognized ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Increase dietary fiber, decrease disease: Review confirms benefits of more roughage in the diet

We should all be eating more dietary fiber to improve our health - that's the message from a health review by scientists in India. The team has looked at research conducted into dietary fiber during the last few decades across ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Image: Active Galaxy Centaurus A

(PhysOrg.com) -- Resembling looming rain clouds on a stormy day, dark lanes of dust crisscross the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

France has had hottest year since 1900

This year was the hottest in France since the start of the 20th century, Meteo France said Tuesday, with average national temperatures 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than the norm.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 14

New satellite observations reveal link between forests and acid rain

A team from LATMOS/IPSL, working in collaboration with Belgian researchers from the Institut d'Aeronomie Spatiale de Belgique (IASB) and the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), have revealed the existence ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Seeing the forest under the trees

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists recently discovered nitrogen that falls from the atmosphere in acid rain can influence large tracts of sugar maples in North America.

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Brazil says Amazon deforestation down to lowest level

Brazil said Monday that the pace of deforestation in its Amazon region fell to its lowest level since authorities began monitoring the world's largest tropical rainforest.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Danube's near-record lows strangle shipping

Severe drought has hit Europe's second largest river, the Danube, turning it into a navigation nightmare for shipping companies all the way from Germany to Bulgaria.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3