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Warmer Ocean Could Reduce Number of Atlantic Hurricane Landfalls (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2008 at 09:00:57
| A warming global ocean — influencing the winds that shear off the tops of developing storms — could mean fewer Atlantic hurricanes striking the United States according to new findings by NOAA climate scientists. Furthermore, the relative warming role of the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans is important for determining Atlantic hurricane activity. |
Migrating Birds Sophisticated Internal Compass Still a Mystery (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2008 at 09:00:57
| "We have experimentally shown beyond reasonable doubt that long-distance, intercontinental avian migrants can correct for east-west displacements during their return migration in spring," said Nikita Chernetsov of the Biological Station Rybachy at the Zoological Institute in Russia. "This means that they can determine geographic longitude, even though we do not currently know how they do it."
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Is Climate Change Making Us Sick? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2008 at 09:00:57
| Ask the people of Yorkshire. As a result of global warming, many homeowners this week are up to their waists in muddy water. And flooding could be just the beginning of our worries. This week a paper in the British Medical Journal gave warning that climate change could be particularly damaging to the health of people in the developing world, but research also suggests that it could be bad news for Britain. Delegates at a conference in London on Tuesday will be told that global warming will drive up rates of cardio-respiratory disease, diarrhoea and insect-borne diseases such as malaria in the UK. |
Agriculture is Altering Mississippi River Chemistry (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2008 at 09:00:57
| BATON ROUGE, Louisiana - Over the past 50 years, farming has altered the hydrology and chemistry of the Mississippi River, injecting more carbon dioxide into the river and raising river discharge, finds a study by researchers at Louisiana State and Yale universities.
LSU Professor R. Eugene Turner and graduate student Whitney Broussard, along with their colleagues at Yale, tracked changes in the discharge of water and the concentration of bicarbonate, which forms when carbon dioxide in soil water dissolves rock minerals.
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Dutch to explore new ways to defend coastline (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2008 at 09:00:57
| AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch government said on Friday it would explore new ways of protecting its coastline from the effects of climate change, including the use of ground-breaking sensor technology.
The Netherlands, which has a quarter of its territory below sea level, will spend 22 million euros ($32.7 million) on anti-flooding projects. Companies and research organizations will contribute an additional 23 million euros. |
Something Had to Give: How Oil Burst the American Bubble (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2008 at 11:00:55
| The economic bubble that lifted the stock market to dizzying heights was sustained as much by cheap oil as by cheap (often fraudulent) mortgages. Likewise, the collapse of the bubble was caused as much by costly (often imported) oil as by record defaults on those improvident mortgages. Oil, in fact, has played a critical, if little commented upon, role in America's current economic enfeeblement - and it will continue to drain the economy of wealth and vigor for years to come. |
Rounding up gases, nano-style (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2008 at 11:00:56
| Chemists unveil new process for capturing and storing gas; potential spin-offs include improvements to greenhouse gas management and fuel cell development.
A new process for catching gas from the environment and holding it indefinitely in molecular-sized containers has been developed by a team of University of Calgary researchers, who say it represents a novel method of gas storage that could yield benefits for capturing, storing and transporting gases more safely and efficiently.
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African quakes kill at least 30 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-03-2008 at 11:00:56
| KIGALI (Reuters) - Earthquakes struck Rwanda and neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, killing at least 30 people and seriously injuring 350 more, officials said.
The two quakes struck close together in Africa's Great Lakes region hours apart along the western Great Rift Valley fault. |
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