Archive for ‘Science’
Space agency satellites to monitor climate change
January 18th, 2008
Space agencies including NASA have agreed to use their next generation of satellites to help monitor climate change, the United Nations weather agency said.
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Climate change threatens coasts
January 16th, 2008
Climate change is warming Britain’s waters, eroding its coastline, harming its marine wildlife and increasing the likelihood of devastating storms and floods, the government said in a report published Wednesday.
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Biotech companies race for drought-tolerant crops
January 14th, 2008
Outside the headquarters of Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc, the pavement is iced over and workers arriving for the day are bundled up against the cold. But inside a laboratory, a warm, man-made drought is in force, curling the leaves of rows of fledgling corn plants as million-dollar machines and scientists in white coats monitor their distress.
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Northeast winters warming fast
January 12th, 2008
Earlier blooms. Less snow to shovel. Unseasonable warm spells. Signs that winters in the Northeast are losing their bite have been abundant in recent years and now researchers have nailed down numbers to show just how big the changes have been.
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Greenpeace clash with whalers
January 12th, 2008
Following a 10-day search in Antarctic waters, the environmental organisation Greenpeace announced that its ship, the Esperanza, had confronted Japan’s whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary. Greenpeace says its mission is to prevent the Japanese government’s slaughter of nearly 1,000…
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World warming despite cool Pacific, Baghdad snow
January 11th, 2008
Climate change is still nudging up temperatures in the long term even though the warmest year was back in 1998 and 2008 has begun with unusual weather such as a cool Pacific and Baghdad’s first snow in memory, experts said.
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Deep sea probe to track Australia climate change
January 10th, 2008
Australian and U.S. scientists will send an unmanned submersible 2.5 kms (1.5 miles) deep into the ocean off Australia next week to track climate change by studying coral at unprecedented depths.
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Ice pioneer eyes farthest glaciers
January 5th, 2008
For 5,000 years, great tongues of ice have spread over the 3-mile-high slopes of Puncak Jaya, in the remotest reaches of this remote tropical island. Now those glaciers are melting, and Lonnie Thompson must get there before they’re gone.
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Global warming could see corals migrate, expert says
January 2nd, 2008
Global warming could send Australia’s corals migrating south to where the waters are cooler, scientists said Wednesday.
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Global climate burns bright in 2007
December 31st, 2007
However, major powers in the developed and developing world remain bitterly divided over the best plan of action. The disunity was underlined during December’s UN summit in Bali which aimed to establish the foundations for a new climate deal when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. Darcy Lambton n…
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Many hoping for results from FutureGen
December 19th, 2007
Decades after Texas outdueled Illinois for a multibillion-dollar science project that went nowhere, the Land of Lincoln is getting its revenge as the chosen home of a futuristic power plant developers hope will be virtually pollution-free.
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Persian Gulf pollution problems
December 19th, 2007
Coral reefs and dolphins are under threat from pollution in the Persian Gulf which has heavy oil tanker traffic.
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Ancient Antarctic ice tells future
December 18th, 2007
John Moore is studying the Antarctic because of the critical role it plays in moderating the planet’s temperature. Professor Moore says initial findings show that current projections for the polar ice thaw and rising sea levels - made by Nobel Peace laureates the IPCC - are too conservative.
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Seas could rise twice as high as predicted
December 16th, 2007
The world’s sea levels could rise twice as high this century as U.N. climate scientists have predicted, according to researchers who looked at what happened more than 100,000 years ago, the last time Earth got this hot.
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Ominous Arctic Melt Worries Experts
December 11th, 2007
An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point.
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