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When it comes to brain damage, blankets take the place of drugs

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Have you ever covered yourself with a blanket to stave off the shivers? A new study shows that a blanket can also help alleviate shivering in patients who have been cooled to prevent brain damage.





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A new study says underwater animals, such as mussels, fart greenhouse gaS

Underwater animals fart greenhouse gas: study

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (9) | comments 7

Humans and farm animals were known to emit harmful greenhouse gases through digestion, but German researchers said Tuesday that aquatic worms and bugs are also culprits, releasing laughing gas.


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Scientists predict greater longevity for planets with life

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 9

Roughly a billion years from now, the ever-increasing radiation from the sun will have heated Earth into inhabitability; the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that serves as food for plant life will disappear, ...


Heat waves cause increased air pollution

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 03, 2006 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

July's U.S. heat waves produced a "blanket of smog" from California to Maine, with public health ozone standards being exceeded more than 1,000 times.


How can scientists measure evolutionary responses to climate change?

Biology / Evolution

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

As global temperatures continue to rise scientists are presented with the complex challenge of understanding how species respond and adapt. In a paper published in Insect Conservation and Diversity, Dr Francisco Rodriguez-Trelles and Dr ...


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Rapid temperature increases above the Antarctic

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created Mar 31, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (42) | comments 0

Antarctica's atmosphere is heating up three times faster than the earth average, British scientists said after a 30-year study released Thursday.


Red Deer Confirms Global Warming

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created Jul 25, 2005 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The red deer is recorded in the Red Book of Sakha Republic (Yakutia) as a species inhabiting only South Yakutia. However, Valentina Stepanova, specialist of the Institute of Biological Problems of Cryolitozone, Siberian Branch, ...


Study: Slowdown in warming last year not permanent

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (19) | comments 18

(AP) -- Cooler temperatures in North America last year do not mean global warming is easing, government and academic scientists said Friday.


What's so funny about global warming?

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Ian Leung has wanted to do something about global warming for almost two decades. Ever since he switched careers in 1991 from science advisor to the Ontario Ministry of Environment to pursue a career as an actor, the environment-and ...


UK University to probe integrity of climate data

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created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 5

(AP) -- A British university said Thursday it would investigate whether scientists at its prestigious Climatic Research Unit fudged data on global warming.


1,700 UK scientists back climate science

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created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (9) | comments 6

(AP) -- Fighting back against climate skeptics, over 1,700 scientists in Britain have signed a statement defending the evidence that climate change is being caused by humans, Britain's weather office said Thursday.



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