News tagged with years
Cenozoic sedimentary records and geochronological constraints of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau uplift
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 14, 2009 |
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The Northeastern part of the present-day Qinghai-Tibet region had a higher elevation than the Southwestern part until the earliest Miocene, i.e., circa 23 million years ago. Thereafter, two phases (12-8 and 5 million years ...
Global increase of warmer years is no accident
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 09, 2009 |
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Between 1880 and 2006 the average global annual temperature was about 15°C. However, in the years after 1990 the frequency of years when this average value was exceeded increased.
Sea level rise of 1 meter within 100 years
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 08, 2009 |
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New research indicates that the ocean could rise in the next 100 years to a meter higher than the current sea level - which is three times higher than predictions from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
Decline of carbon-dioxide-gobbling plankton coincided with ancient global cooling
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The evolutionary history of diatoms -- abundant oceanic plankton that remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the air each year -- needs to be rewritten, according to a new Cornell ...
Hormone therapy associated with reduced colorectal cancer risk
Jan 08, 2009 |
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The combination of estrogen plus progestin, which women stopped taking in droves following the news that it may increase their risk of breast cancer, may decrease their risk of colorectal cancer, according to a report published ...
How Students Can Stick to Hard-to-Follow New Year's Resolutions
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Winter quarter at UC San Diego begins on Jan. 5 and many students are carrying a variety of New Year’s resolutions along with their textbooks. Students who have resolved to improve their lives ...
Scientists say comet killed off mammoths, saber-toothed tigers
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 02, 2009 |
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First an explosion as powerful as thousands of megatons of TNT rained meteorites down on North America. Then forest fires broke out across the continent, sending up a thick layer of soot and dust that blocked ...
Life got bigger in two, million-fold leaps, scientists say
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Extremes are exciting. Does anyone really think dinosaurs would capture our imagination the way they do if they hadn't been so huge? You don't see natural history museums vying for fossil skeletons ...
Italy's geologic history becomes a personal tale in Walter Alvarez's new book
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 22, 2008 |
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Italy's mountains, from the Apennines to the Alps, have fascinated University of California, Berkeley, geologist Walter Alvarez for more than 35 years, resulting in a new book, "The Mountains of Saint Francis," that traces ...
Phoenix Site on Mars May be in Dry Climate Cycle Phase
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Martian arctic soil that NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander dug into this year is very cold and very dry. However, when long-term climate cycles make the site warmer, the soil may get moist enough ...
Data mining of inpatient records reveals the disease pattern of obstructive sleep apnea
Dec 15, 2008 |
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A study in the Dec. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine is the first to show the full clinical picture of comorbid conditions associated with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), quantify their frequency of occurr ...
Earth has warmed 0.4 C in 30 years
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Half of the globe has warmed at least one half of one degree Fahrenheit (0.3 C) in the past 30 years, while half of that -- a full quarter of the globe -- warmed at least one full degree Fahrenheit ...
Research finds koalas are no dwarves
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Dec 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland research has found one of Australia's iconic animals is not a shadow of its former self.
Climate Change Alters Ocean Chemistry
Dec 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered that the ocean's chemical makeup is less stable and more greatly affected by climate change than previously believed. The researchers report in the December 12, 2008 issue of Science that d ...
Drama in the heart of the Tarantula
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Found in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, 30 Doradus is one of the largest massive star forming regions close to the Milky Way. Enormous stars in 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, are producing ...
