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Another Item for Climate Panel's To-Do List
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change would do well to cultivate contacts between its authors and reporters in poor countries.
Cold blamed for Bolivia's mass fish deaths
Extreme weather wreaks havoc in the rivers.
Russia gains ground on wildfires
MOSCOW, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Emergency responders in Russia managed to stave off a national disaster from raging forest fires, the emergency minister declared. ...
New view of tectonic plates: Computer modeling of Earth's mantle flow, plate motions, and fault zones
Computational scientists and geophysicists have developed new computer algorithms that for the first time allow for the simultaneous modeling of Earth's mantle flow, large-scale tectonic plate motions, and the behavior...
Video: Harvesting Hope in New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina changed the New Orleans landscape forever, leveling 320 million trees in its wake. Monique Pilie felt despair in the face of so much destruction and set out re-plant...
Feds to Remove Temporary Cap from Gulf Well
Engineers Removing Cap that Stopped Oil from Gushing out of BP's Well in Order to Raise Failed Blowout Preventer from Seabed
Pacific Hot Spells Shifting as Predicted in Human-Heated World
Federal researchers find evidence that global warming may be shifting big, consequential Pacific Ocean temperature patterns.
A Sticky Climate Protest
Climate change protest is becoming a sticky business in Great Britain.Last Thursday, hundreds of activists with Climate Camp, a grassroots protest group, descended on the headquarters of the Royal Bank...
ORNL graphite foam technology licensed to LED North America
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., August 27, 2010 -- Technology developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory that extends the life of light-emitting diode lamps has been licensed to...
Aquatic invaders can topple plant and fish populations in Northeast
(PhysOrg.com) -- The introduction of species like "Frankenfish" or "Rock Snot" into Pennsylvania waters doesn't sound pretty, and it's not. These are just two of the more colorful nicknames for...
Salvage operation could offer up clues to US oil spill
Efforts this weekend to salvage BP's blowout preventer could bring to the surface a key piece of evidence in the inquiry into the largest maritime oil spill in history.
Hurricane-Hunting Tech: A Brief History
Sensor-laden planes called "Hurricane Hunters" pierce and prod hurricanes in the Gulf Coast.
Feingold calls for Great Lakes funding
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Failure to invest in the health of the Great Lakes will have dramatic impacts that extend beyond the environment, a Wisconsin senator said. ...
Mass displacement under way in Pakistan
KARACHI, Pakistan, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Authorities in the historic city of Thatta in Pakistan's province of Sindh said residents were ordered to leave the area because of rising...
Students Design Unmanned Drone to Take Action Against Terrorist Activity
In less than two years, an unmanned aircraft search and rescue competition will be happening in a remote area in Australia. Kevin Kochersberger, director of the Unmanned System Lab (USL)...
Syrian wheat supplies safe for two years
DAMASCUS, Syria, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Syria has produced enough wheat in 2010 to satisfy the domestic demand for the next two years, the country's agriculture minister said. ...
Another Ice Island Breaks Off Arctic Glacier
Break-off follows another glacier breakup earlier this summer.
New protected Arctic marine area: PM
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Thursday that the federal government is creating the first marine protected area in the Arctic.
China builds base to tap deep-sea energy: state media
China will build a multi-million-dollar research base on its east coast as it steps up its efforts to search for energy sources and rare earths on the ocean floor, state...
Feds: Don't tip off miners on surprise inspections
By SAM HANANEL 2010-08-26T20:47:53Z WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some mine companies are tipping off their underground workers before federal officials...
A poor appetite for gulf seafood
In Louisiana, where the fishing industry is as much a part of the state as Mardi Gras, even locals won't eat the catch.President Obama served plates of barbecued gulf shrimp...
El Niño has grown more intense and shifted westward in last three decades, data show
More research is necessary to determine if the cause is global warming or natural variability, an author of the report says.The weather pattern known as El Niño, which...
Peak Uncertainty, When Will We Run Out Of Fossil Fuels?
A couple of weeks ago I read somewhere that we have got enough coal left for over 200 years. So despite the greenhouse gas emissions that it entails, we needn't worry about...
'Stickybot' can walk up a pane of glass
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Scaling vertical surfaces like Spider-Man could one day be a reality as new advances learn to mimic nature's best climbers, researchers say. ...
Herring to be counted near N.S.
Scientists from the Bedford Institute of Oceanography are on a mission to find out why herring fishermen in Nova Scotia are reporting fewer and smaller fish this season.
Computers take a closer look inside the Earth
More detailed pictures of the processes that continuously reshape the Earth from the inside out are being generated by new, more sophisticated computer models, yielding new insights into the hidden...
Paraguay marks fragile agriculture-based recovery
ASUNCION, Paraguay, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Paraguay is celebrating a record economic growth on the back of its soy exports but remains exposed to domestic and international pressures to...
Receding ice could unlock arctic trove
HELSINKI, Finland, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Receding arctic ice from global warming may open new avenues for tourism and trade and could reveal vast new natural resource reserves, researchers...