News tagged with southern
Ocean warming causes elephant seals to dive deeper
Global warming is having an effect on the dive behaviour and search for food of southern elephant seals. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association cooperating ...
Feb 09, 2012 |
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ESO team succeeds in linking telescopes at Paranal Observatory into giant VLT
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers working as part of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) at the Cerra Paranal Mountain Observatory in the Atacama Desert in Chile, have succeeded in virtually connecting all ...
Feb 06, 2012 |
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New study provides insight into Southern Ocean food web
One of the most comprehensive studies of animals in the Southern Ocean reveals a region that is under threat from the effects of environmental change.
Feb 03, 2012 |
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Turkish hospital performs triple limb transplant
(AP) -- A hospital in southern Turkey on Saturday was attempting the world's first triple limb transplant, attaching two arms and one leg to a 34-year-old man, the country's state-run news agency reported.
Jan 21, 2012 |
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Satellite observes spatiotemporal variations in mid-upper tropospheric methane over China
As a principal greenhouse gas, atmospheric methane is important to atmospheric chemical processes and climate change. In Vol. 56 of the Chinese Science Bulletin, a paper identified spatiotemporal variations of methane in the ...
Jan 20, 2012 |
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Evidence of past Southern hemisphere rainfall cycles related to Antarctic temperatures
Geoscientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Minnesota this week published the first evidence that warm-cold climate oscillations well known in the Northern Hemisphere over ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Eagle Nebula: A new view of an icon
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Eagle Nebula as never seen before. In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope's 'Pillars of Creation' image of the Eagle Nebula became one of the most iconic images of the 20th century. Now, ...
Jan 17, 2012 |
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German scientists launch quest to remote Tristan da Cunha
A team of German scientists on Tuesday launched an expedition to the remote British archipelago of Tristan da Cunha, in a bid to uncover secrets linked to the ancient supercontinent Gondwana.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Researchers discover 'green' pesticide effective against citrus pests
University of Florida researchers have discovered a key amino acid essential for human nutrition is also an effective insecticide against caterpillars that threaten the citrus industry.
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Strong quakes rattle remote Antarctica
Two strong earthquakes 40 minutes apart rocked the remote South Orkney Islands in Antarctica on Sunday, experts from the US Geological Survey said.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 16, 2012 |
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Japanese whalers hand over Australian activists
Three activists who boarded a Japanese whaling ship on the high seas were Friday successfully transferred to an Australian customs vessel after Tokyo agreed to release them without charge.
Jan 13, 2012 |
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Largest bird alters its foraging due to climate change
Paris/ Leipzig. Wandering albatrosses have altered their foraging due to changes in wind fields in the southern hemisphere during the last decades. Since winds have increased in intensity and moved to the ...
Jan 12, 2012 |
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STAR TRAK for January 2012
The planets Venus and Jupiter will dominate the sky as darkness falls during January. Jupiter will be twice as bright as any star, and Venus will be four times brighter than Jupiter.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 05, 2012 |
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'Lost world' discovered around Antarctic vents
Communities of species previously unknown to science have been discovered on the seafloor near Antarctica, clustered in the hot, dark environment surrounding hydrothermal vents.
Jan 03, 2012 |
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Man dies from bird flu in southern China
A bus driver in southern China who contracted the bird flu virus died Saturday, health authorities said, in the nation's first reported human case of the deadly disease in 18 months.
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