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Research team proposes new link to tropical African climate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 11, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 0

The Lake Tanganyika area, in southeast Africa, is home to nearly 130 million people living in four countries that bound the lake, the second deepest on Earth. Scientists have known that the region experiences ...


Intervention needed for Asian mothers, babies

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created Jul 09, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A major international study involving the University of Adelaide, Australia, has shown that intervention is needed in South-East Asia to improve the health of pregnant women and their babies and prevent child and mother mortality.





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China investigates 2 deaths after flu vaccinations

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(AP) -- Two people in China who received swine flu vaccinations died in the past week but at least one death appears unrelated to the vaccine and the other was being investigated.


Satellite imagery confirms Ida's low is finally moving away from the east coast

Satellite imagery confirms Ida's low is finally moving away from the east coast

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Satellite imagery and weather ground station readings today along the Mid-Atlantic indicate "Ida the coastal low pressure area" is finally moving away from the U.S. east coast.


Former Ida a huge rainmaker, causing flooding in the Mid-Atlantic

Former Ida a huge rainmaker, causing flooding in the Mid-Atlantic

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created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The coastal low, formerly known as Ida, is currently quasi-stationary off the North Carolina coast, adding more rain on top of what it has already brought. The low is creating serious flooding from northeast ...


SEA to conduct expedition dedicated to measuring plastic marine debris in the North Atlantic Ocean

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created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sea Education Association (SEA) is preparing to conduct the first-ever research expedition dedicated solely to examining the accumulation of plastic marine debris in the North Atlantic Ocean.


NASA satellites see Ida spreading out before landfall

NASA satellites see Ida spreading out before landfall

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created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites are keeping a close eye on Tropical Storm Ida, and both have instruments aboard that show her clouds and rains are already widespread inland over the U.S. Gulf coast states. ...


NASA's GOES Project offers real-time hurricane alley movies

NASA's GOES Project offers real-time hurricane alley movies

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created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

People love to get the big picture of hurricane alleys, and thanks to the GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., they can now get real-time satellite animations of the eastern ...


The GOES-12 satellite sees Large Hurricane Ida nearing landfall

The GOES-12 satellite sees Large Hurricane Ida nearing landfall

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

Residents of the U.S. Gulf coast thought they were getting a break this hurricane season until Ida showed up. Today, November 9, Ida is a hurricane and is headed for a landfall in the western Florida Panhandle ...


Scientists seek safe carbon dioxide storage for 'greener' power generation (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans to fund research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Engineering on technologies that would help reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the capture ...


W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback (AP)

W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil.


A 12-foot (3.65m) Burmese python that was captured in the backyard of a home in south Miami, Florida

Florida grapples slippery giant snake invasion

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created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Florida homes and swamps more used to dealing with dangerous critters like alligators now face a more foreign invader -- giant pet snakes escaped into the wild whose numbers are growing at an alarming rate.



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