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Existence Finally Confirmed of Hypothetical Particle That Could Help Cool the Planet
Unforced variations: April 2012
The IPCC SREX: the report is finally out.
Too Much Monkey Business Leads to Monkey Vasectomies
Video: 3-D Printing Customized Chemistry Labware to Replace the Common Beaker
Unlocking the secrets to ending an Ice Age
Unforced variations: May 2012
HadCRUT4 data now available
Another well-deserved honor: Oeschger medal awarded to Michael Mann
Virgin Oceanic Wants to Send Humans Back Down into the Mariana Trench
Happy Earth Day! Welcome to the Anthropocene
The Evolving Truth about Fracking for Natural Gas [Updated]
Genome Run: Andean Shrub Is First New Plant Species Described by Its DNA
Leeches Spill Guts about Elusive Mammals
Second Wind: Air-Breathing Lithium Batteries Promise Recharge-Free Long-Range Driving--If the Bugs Can Be Worked Out
Readers Respond to "The Coming Mega Drought" and Other Articles
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Wind turbines can cause localised warming
Neutrinos: messengers from the underworld
Japan's last operational nuclear reactor to go offline
In tornado season, words save lives
Mexico puts climate change action into law
China is taking control of Asia's water tower
Real-time GPS sensor could give earlier quake warning
Bones of early American disappear from underwater cave
Zoologger: Meet the polar bear's replacement
Zoologger: The ant that dives into digestive juices
Waterway robbery
Arctic methane leaks threaten climate
Clean up the cloud: making data storage greener
Climate change will make conservation even pricier
The Arab Spring puts a strain on Jordan's ecology
Will Organic Food Fail to Feed the World?
Nothing to Sneeze at: Allergies May Be Good for You
Shark on the menu: Species hunted for their fins
L.A. Needs to Stop Being Such a Cow Town
Fire Storm: Field Researchers and Their Subjects Endure Nature's Tempestuous Power [Slide Show]
Warming Ocean Current Might Create Coral Refuges
Australia's decade-long drought ends
Respect the need to experiment with GM crops
When humans attack: The fallout of the shark slaughter
Record-breaking deep-sea drill to probe warm sediments
Arctic Sea Ice Volume: PIOMAS, Prediction, and the Perils of Extrapolation
Evaluating a 1981 temperature projection
How Is Disaster Aid Being Retooled to Meet Catastrophes That Strike Cities?
Ecosystems dependent on snowy winters most threatened, long term research confirms
New threat to birds posed by invasive pythons in Florida
Which plants will survive droughts, climate change?
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How to Pump Half a Million Gallons of Fuel From a Listing Cruise Liner
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Another fingerprint When my kids were younger, they asked me why the ocean was blue. I would answer that the ocean mirrors the blue sky. However, I would not think much more about it, even though it is well-known that the oceans represent the most important source for atmospheric moisture. They also play an important role for [...]..
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Plugging the leaks Guest commentary by Beate Liepert, NWRA Clouds and water vapor accounts for only a tiny fraction of all water on Earth, but in spite of it, this moisture in the atmosphere is crucially important to replenishing drinking water reservoirs, crop yields, distribution of vegetation zones, and so on. This is the case because in the [...]..
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Greenland Glaciers — not so fast! There have been several recent papers on ice sheets and sea level that have gotten a bit of press of the journalistic whiplash variety (“The ice is melting faster than we thought!” “No, its not!”). As usual the papers themselves are much better than the press about them, and the results less confusing. They add [...]..
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Yamalian yawns Steve McIntyre is free to do any analysis he wants on any data he can find. But when he ladles his work with unjustified and false accusations of misconduct and deception, he demeans both himself and his contributions. The idea that scientists should be bullied into doing analyses McIntyre wants and delivering the results to [...]..
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The legend of the Titanic It’s 100 years since the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic, and it’s still remembered today. It was one of those landmark events that make a deep impression on people. It also fits a pattern of how we respond to different conditions, according to a recent book about the impact of environmental science on the [...]..
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Prenatal pollution exposure dangerous for children with asthma The link between prenatal exposure to air pollution and childhood lung growth and respiratory ailments is well established, and now a new study suggests that these prenatal exposures can be especially serious for children with asthma...
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Pollution teams with thunderclouds to warm atmosphere New simulation study shows that atmosphere warms when pollution intensifies storms. How much the warming effect of these clouds offsets the cooling that other clouds provide is not yet clear...
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DNA barcoding verified the discovery of a highly disconnected crane fly species Entomologists have discovered a new crane fly species on the Eurasian continent. The new species, Tipula recondita, has been documented in both Finnish Lapland and the Russian Far East in two apparently disconnected populations...
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Intricate, often invisible land-sea ecological chains of life threatened with extinction around the world Intricate, often invisible chains of life are threatened with extinction around the world. A new study quantifies one of the longest such chains ever documented...
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A crowning success for crayfish Australian freshwater crayfish have a tooth enamel very similar to humans. Nature sometimes copies its own particularly successful developments. Scientists have now found that the teeth of the Australian freshwater crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus are covered with an enamel amazingly similar to that of vertebrates. Both materials consist of calcium phosphate and are also very alike in terms of their microstructure. This extremely hard substance ha..
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Dump the pump: When oil will lose its lustre Oil production may fall in 10 years – not because it is running out but because electric cars will be cheaper and gas engines will be better..
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Mowing down seagrass meadows will cut loose carbon Seagrass holds as much carbon per hectare as the world's forests, but is declining dangerously..
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Monitoring tides could predict major quakes As stresses build up in the Earth's crust, tidal forces can trigger minor earthquakes – a sign of big quakes to come..
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Chikungunya virus loves warm New York winters A mosquito-borne virus that causes debilitating joint pain could become endemic in New York City within years as winters get warmer..
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'Nobody is exempt from climate responsibility' Could Christiana Figueres have the world's toughest job: getting all nations to agree how to tackle climate change We talk to the UN's climate chief..
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What Is It? The honeycomb lattice is one of nature’s favorite patterns. In the two-dimensional crystal of carbon atoms known as graph­ene, for instance, the honeycomb structure arises from bonds among the atoms. Kenjiro K. Gomes of Stanford University and his colleagues have learned to make a honeycomb material in a striking new way. They place carbon monoxide molecules at regular intervals on the surface of a copper crystal, creating an imitation ..
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Why Tariffs on Chinese Photovoltaics Are Bad for the Planet This week, the U.S. government slapped tariffs (pdf) of more than 31 percent on the price of solar cells made by Chinese companies that cooperated with a recent probe. Those companies that stayed mum face even higher tariffs--as much as 250 percent. [More] ..
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Volcanic Tremors May Help Predict Massive Eruptions Earthquakes often precede explosive volcanic eruptions such as the devastating outburst from Mount St. Helens in 1980. But attempts to use tremors to predict the timing and force of such explosions have proved unsuccessful for decades. Now multidisciplinary teams of researchers have developed models that could help warn of disastrous eruptions hours to days before they happen. [More] ..
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Coyotes Are the New Top Dogs By Sharon Levy of Nature magazine [More] ..
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Track Record: Do Major Urban Subway Networks Evolve along Similar Patterns? No two subway systems have the same design. New York City’s haphazard rail system differs markedly from the highly organized Moscow Metro (above), or the tangled spaghetti of Tokyo ’s subway network. Each system’s design is the result of many factors, including local geography, the city’s layout and traffic distribution, politics, culture and degree of urban planning. [More] ..
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China Takes Off China Takes Off Peter and Mary HoeyThe largest nation on Earth is flying more people more places than ever before. Its struggle to do so without (further) destroying the environment could show the rest of the world a greener way to travel When discussing any environmental issue in China, it's always a struggle to decide which deserves more emphasis: how dire the situation is, or how hard Chinese authorities are trying to cope with it. China's sk..
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GPS Satellites Could Improve Tsunami Advance Warning Time Tenfold The Devastation Following the March 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami U.S. Navy When the Tohoku earthquake struck Japan in March of last year, seismometer data allowed authorities to issue earthquake earnings within eight seconds of first realizing something was seismologically amiss. But their initial readings were not fully accurate, labeling the ‘quake a magnitude 7.1. It took authorities another 20 minutes to revise the magnitude to its rea..
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Video: 3-D Printing Customized Chemistry Labware to Replace the Common Beaker Printing Custom Labware in 3-D With baked-in catalysts The latest game being changed by 3-D printing: chemistry. A researcher at the University of Glasgow, frustrated with the inability to modify standardized labware to fit the requirements of his experiments, has created a new breed of easily customizable laboratory containers that can be printed in silicone-based bathroom sealant. The problem: chemistry is a diverse and changing field, but the..
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Too Much Monkey Business Leads to Monkey Vasectomies Too Much Monkey Business Click here to get a bigger view of this amazing image. Reuters/Mukesh Gupta A rhesus macaque awaits a vasectomy at a wildlife rescue facility in Himachal Pradesh, India. The state's estimated 319,000 monkeys frequently ransack garbage cans and harass citizens. Last year, the state government announced a bounty of 500 rupees ($9.50) to anyone who captured and transported a monkey to a sterilization center, and program admi..
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Virgin Oceanic Wants to Send Humans Back Down into the Mariana Trench Virgin Oceanic's Proposed Submersible Virgin Oceanic If you thought space was the only frontier Virgin has an interest in tackling, you've been missing out on Virgin Oceanic's drive to pilot the first manned submersible all the way to the very bottom of the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench--and thus dive deeper than any solo human has ever dived before. It's a cool story that is still ongoing, and PopSci favorite IEEE Spectrum has an amazing semi-..
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