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ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News
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New theory of why midcontinent faults produce earthquakes
A new theory may solve the mystery of why the New Madrid fault, which lies in the middle of the continent and not along a...
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Most panda habitat is outside nature reserves, according to joint US-China research
Though much effort and many resources have been expended to protect the endangered giant panda, research by an international team of scientists shows that much...
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Reforestation projects capture more carbon than industrial plantations, new research reveals
Australian scientists researching environmental restoration projects have found that the reforestation of damaged rainforests is more efficient at capturing carbon than controversial softwood monoculture plantations....
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Research of cell movements in developing frogs reveals new twists in human genetic disease
Mutations in a gene known as "Fritz" may be responsible for causing human genetic disorders such as Bardet-Biedl syndrome, developmental biologists, human geneticists and cell...
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Black carbon implicated in global warming
Increasing the ratio of black carbon to sulfate in the atmosphere increases climate warming, suggests a new study.
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Chemicals are likely cause of feminization of fish present in two rivers in Alberta, Canada,...
Chemicals present in two rivers in southern Alberta are likely the cause of the feminization of fish, say researchers.
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Some trees 'farm' bacteria to help supply nutrients
Some trees growing in nutrient-poor forest soil may get what they need by cultivating specific root microbes to create compounds they require. These microbes are...
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Best hope for saving Arctic sea ice is cutting soot emissions, say researchers
Soot from the burning of fossil fuels and solid biofuels contributes far more to global warming than has been thought, according to a new study....
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Polarstern expedition: Autonomous underwater vehicle dives under the Arctic ice
The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association for the first time sent its Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) on an...
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Body of evidence: New fast, reliable method to detect gravesoil
Finding bodies buried by someone who wanted them to stay undiscovered can be difficult. However a new technique can reliably detect biochemical changes in a...
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Signs of reversal of Arctic cooling: Rapid temperature rise in the coldest region of mainland...
Parts of the Arctic have cooled over the past century, but temperatures have been rising steeply since 1990, according to a summer temperature reconstruction for...
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Sensing wind speed with kites
Researchers have developed a way to use a kite itself to measure wind speed. The instrument consists of a 2-meter-long and 1-meter-wide Rokkaku-type kite.
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Accepted theory explaining frequent eruptions at Italy’s Stromboli volcano questioned
One volcano that volcanologists believe they understand fairly well is Italy's Stromboli, which has been erupting every five to 20 minutes for thousands of years,...
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More frequent, more intense heat waves in store for New York, climate scientists predict
Heat waves like those that baked the Northeast in July are likely to be more frequent and more intense in the future, with their effects...
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Swimmers at sub-tropical beaches show increased risk of illness, study suggests
Swimmers at sub-tropical beaches face an increased risk of illness, according to new research. Scientists examined the risk of illness that beachgoers face when exposed...
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NASA simulates space exploration at remote Arctic crater site
NASA personnel are among a group of international researchers who are in the Canadian Arctic assessing concepts for future planetary exploration as part of the...
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Birth of a hurricane
Summer storms are a regular feature in the North Atlantic, and while most pose little threat to our shores, a choice few become devastating hurricanes....
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New tool for improving switchgrass
Scientists have developed a new tool for deciphering the genetics of a native prairie grass being widely studied for its potential as a biofuel. The...
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Marine biodiversity strongly linked to ocean temperature
Scientists have mapped and analyzed global biodiversity patterns for over 11,000 marine species ranging from tiny zooplankton to sharks and whales.
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A future with or without trees: Greenhouse gas emissions from Brazilian Amazon state
Researchers have estimated future emissions of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane in the Brazilian Amazon state of Mato Grosso. The estimates were made by...
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Three-year investigation of military munitions sea disposal site in Hawaii completed
The University of Hawaii at Manoa's School of Ocean Earth Science and Technology completed a three-year long investigation of Sea Disposal Site Hawaii Number 5,...
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Ancient reptiles 'Make tracks': Discovery of fossilized footprints reveals when reptiles first conquered dry land
A discovery of fossilized footprints reveals when reptiles first conquered dry land. The 318-million-year-old reptile footprints were found in sea-cliffs on the Bay of Fundy,...
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Scientists test cutting-edge technology for underwater mapping at Tahoe basin
A borrowed boat, a small mountain lake and the inaugural run of a half-a-million dollar state-of-the-art multi-beam sonar system made history this month with the...
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New light on speciation and biodiversity of marine microorganisms
The world’s oceans are host to an enormous diversity of drifting, microscopic organisms, known as plankton. How this biodiversity has arisen has puzzled biologists for...
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Nanotechnology for water purification
Researchers in India are investigating the use of several nanotechnology approaches to water purification. Water purification using nanotechnology exploits nanoscopic materials such as carbon nanotubes...
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Marine phytoplankton declining: Striking global changes at the base of the marine food web linked...
A new article reveals for the first time that microscopic marine algae known as phytoplankton have been declining globally over the 20th century. Phytoplankton forms...
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Making eco-friendly diesel fuel from butter
The search for new raw materials for making biodiesel fuel has led scientists to an unlikely farm product -- butter. In a new study, researchers...
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Unexplained pattern of cosmic rays discovered
Researchers saw an unusual pattern when they looked at a "skymap" of the relative intensity of cosmic rays directed toward the Earth's Southern Hemisphere, with...
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Scientists tap into Antarctic octopus venom
Researchers have collected venom from octopuses in Antarctica for the first time, significantly advancing our understanding of the properties of venom as a potential resource...
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Researchers' 'Posseidon' adventure could save shipping industry millions
Researchers could save the world’s shipping industry millions of pounds in repairs to broken down vessels after developing a computerized warning system which keeps the...
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Researchers investigate effects of lightning strikes on aircraft
Scientists in the UK are researching the potential for damage posed by lightning for carbon fibre composites (CFCs), which are increasingly being used in aircraft...
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Native-like spider silk produced in metabolically engineered bacteria
Biomolecular engineers have developed technology to artificially create spider dragline silk proteins that can be used to make ultra-strong synthetic fibers and bulletproof vests.
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Engineered coral pigment helps scientists to observe protein movement
Scientists have shown that a variant form of a fluorescent protein originally isolated from a reef coral has excellent properties as a marker protein for...
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Ötzi’s secrets about to be revealed
Using the latest technologies, scientists in Europe have reached a new milestone in their study of the iceman known as Ötzi. For the first time...
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Potentially hazardous asteroid might collide with the Earth in 2182
The potentially hazardous asteroid ‘(101955) 1999 RQ36’ has a one-in-a-thousand chance of impacting the Earth, and more than half of this probability indicates that this...
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Carbon emissions threaten fish populations
Humanity's rising carbon dioxide emissions could have a significant impact on the world's fish populations, according to groundbreaking new research. Baby fish may become easy...
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Shade-coffee farms support native bees that maintain genetic diversity in tropical forests
Shade-grown coffee farms support native bees that help maintain the health of some of the world's most biodiverse tropical regions, according to a new study.
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Segmentation is the secret behind the extraordinary diversification of animals
Segmentation, the repetition of identical anatomical units, seems to be the secret behind the diversity and longevity of the largest and most common animal groups...
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Bird flu: Preening spreads viruses in nature
Scientists discovered that the preen oil gland secretions, by which all aquatic birds make their feathers waterproof, support a natural mechanism that concentrates AIVs from...
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Oceanographic linkages indicate an alternative route for eel larval drift to Europe
European eel larvae are generally believed to initially follow a westerly drift route into the Gulf Stream, but new research results on bio-physical linkages in...
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