News tagged with water volume

Steroids control gas exchange in plants

Plants leaves are sealed with a gas-tight wax layer to prevent water loss. Plants breathe through microscopic pores called stomata (Greek for mouths) on the surfaces of leaves. Over 40% of the carbon dioxide, CO2, in the ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 05, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

River rises; Northwest wind farms, plants cut back

(AP) -- Wind farms and fossil-fuel power plants in the Pacific Northwest were all but shut down for five hours early Wednesday as the Columbia River basin's hydroelectric generators ran at full capacity and river managers ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 18, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Is the Dead Sea dying?

The water levels in the Dead Sea - the deepest point on Earth - are dropping at an alarming rate with serious environmental consequences, according to Shahrazad Abu Ghazleh and colleagues from the University ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0




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Japan's Fukushima reactor may be reheating: operator

Temperature readings at one of the crippled Fukushima nuclear reactors have risen above Japan's stringent new safety standard but there was no immediate danger, its operator said Sunday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created 16 hours ago | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Inspired by steel, nanomanufacturing gets wear-resistant carbide tip

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and IBM Research - Zurich have fabricated an ultrasharp silicon carbide tip possessing such high strength ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Amazon tests waters in India

US online retail giant Amazon has made its first foray into India with launch of a shopping website, Junglee.com, as it tests the waters for a possible full entry into the nation's e-commerce market. ...

Technology / Business

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study shows global glaciers, ice caps, shedding billions of tons of mass annually

Earth's glaciers and ice caps outside of the regions of Greenland and Antarctica are shedding roughly 150 billion tons of ice annually, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Electrons in concert: A simple probe for collective motion in ultracold plasmas

(PhysOrg.com) -- Collective, or coordinated behavior is routine in liquids, where waves can occur as atoms act together. In a milliliter (mL) of liquid water, 1022 molecules bob around, colliding. When a bre ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Progress and promise in DIAL LIDAR

For climatologists and environmental policy makers who need to determine the flux of greenhouse gases (GHG), there are three paramount questions: Where is it, how much is there, and how is it moving? A new ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

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.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cactus may give farmers a cure for poisoned crop land

The prickly pear cactus may not sound like a trendy cash crop, but it could become a phenomenon among farmers on the arid west side of California's San Joaquin Valley.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

New methods enable the early detection of Achilles tendon damage

Two biochemical methods, developed at the Centre of Excellence for High Field Magnetic Resonance at the MedUni Vienna by Vladimir Juras from the University Department of Radiodiagnostics, are enabling Achilles ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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