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Carbon and oxygen in tree rings can reveal past climate information

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

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.


Greenhouse gas carbon dioxide ramps up aspen growth

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 7

The rising level of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be fueling more than climate change. It could also be making some trees grow like crazy.


Checklist for going solar

Technology / Energy

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

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 ...


LST builds first global nanotech regulation database

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- A global database of government documents on nanotechnology is being launched by three law professors at Arizona State University who, with their colleagues in Australia and Belgium, have corralled and organized ...


Samoan Tsunami wave was 46 feet high

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(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 ...


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Ecosia search engine fights climate change

Technology / Internet

created 16 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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.


Lizards change their diet to avoid predators

Lizards change their diet to avoid predators

Biology / Plants & Animals

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

A scientist from the University of Salamanca and another from Yale University have shown that the presence of predators affects the behaviour of Acanthodactylus beershebensis, a lizard species from the Ne ...


Antarctica served as climatic refuge in Earth's greatest extinction event

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A new fossil species suggests that some land animals may have survived the end-Permian extinction by living in cooler climates in Antarctica. Researchers have identified a distant relative of mammals that apparently survived ...


Species down, disease up: Study shows biodiversity loss drives human infections

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

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.


Global warming may require higher dams, stilts (AP)

Global warming may require higher dams, stilts

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 4

(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.



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