As global forest and climate experts gather at the Oslo REDD Exchange 2013 to ramp up international efforts to protect carbon-storing forests in the developing world, a recent study by researchers at the Nairobi-based World ...
Environment
Oct 28, 2013
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A new study offers an explanation for the extraordinary run of wet summers experienced by Britain and northwest Europe between 2007 and 2012. The study found that loss of Arctic sea ice shifts the jet stream further south ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 28, 2013
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Google is relying on a little social networking to put its Internet-connected glasses on the heads of more people.
Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 28, 2013
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UPDATE: The largest destroyer ever built for the Navy is in the water for the first time—and the stealthy vessel looks unlike any U.S. warship before.
Engineering
Oct 28, 2013
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A Brazilian judge has ordered that work on the controversial Belo Monte dam in the Amazon be halted on grounds that environmental commitments were not met, the court said Monday.
Environment
Oct 28, 2013
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NASA said Monday it is on track to launch its Maven probe to Mars next month to find out why the Red Planet lost much of its atmosphere.
Space Exploration
Oct 28, 2013
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Anyone can get a European storm named after themselves—if they are ready to pay for the honour.
Earth Sciences
Oct 28, 2013
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Americans place high value on butterfly royalty. A recent study suggests they are willing to support monarch butterfly conservation at high levels, up to about 6 ½ billion dollars if extrapolated to all U.S. households.
Ecology
Oct 28, 2013
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In the chemical age of agriculture that began in the 1960s, potassium chloride (KCl), the common salt often referred to as potash, is widely used as a major fertilizer in the Corn Belt without regard to the huge soil reserves ...
Environment
Oct 28, 2013
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An unintended legacy of California's gold rush, which began in 1848, endures today in the form of mercury-laden sediment. New research by Michael Singer, associate researcher at UC Santa Barbara's Earth Research Institute, ...
Environment
Oct 28, 2013
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