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Chance Discovery: Alaska Range Glacier Surges Fairbanks AK (SPX) Mar 17, 2006 
There is evidence that the McGinnis Glacier, a little-known tongue of ice in the central Alaska Range, has surged. Assistant Professor of Physics Martin Truffer recently noticed the lower portion of the glacier was covered in cracks, crevasses, and pinnacles of ice--all telltale signs that the glacier has recently slid forward at higher than normal rates. |
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Emerging Disease Risks Prompt Scientists To Call
Edinburgh, UK (SPX) Mar 17, 2006Knowledge of 'movement routes' is the key to predicting the pattern of spread of infectious diseases of humans, and similar data could be crucial to understand animal disease risks, says team from the University of Edinburgh. For Mexico City's Wastewater Scuba Crew, It's A Dirty Dive 
Mexico City (AFP) Mar 17, 2006Who's having fish? jokes diver Luis Covarrubias just outside his workplace: a plant that moves millions of liters of Mexico City wastewater and where difficult duties just keep getting dirtier and more dangerous. Greenpeace Accuses Poland Of Not Blocking 'Pirate' Fishing Boats 
Warsaw (AFP) Mar 17, 2006International environmental watchdog Greenpeace on Thursday barricaded a fishing trawler at its mooring in a Polish port, accusing Poland and other EU countries of not doing enough to prevent 'pirate' fishing. |
Journal Of Industrial Ecology Focuses On Eco-Efficiency
New Haven CT (SPX) Mar 17, 2006Disputes over the trade-off between the environment and the economy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Whether the threat is global warming or toxic substances, the tension between cost and environmental benefit is often palpable. Metabolites Of Pharmaceuticals Identified In Wastewater 
Buffalo NY (SPX) Mar 17, 2006University at Buffalo chemists have for the first time identified at wastewater treatment plants the metabolites of two antibiotics and a medial imaging agent. New German Director For UN Environment Program 
United Nations (AFP) Mar 16, 2006UN chief Kofi Annan has selected Achim Steiner, a German national, to takeover the helm of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Annan's spokesman said Wednesday. Steiner, currently director of the World Conservation Union, will succeed fellow German Klaus Toepfer as UNEP executive director, according to spokesman Stephane Dujarric. |
Pollution Trackers Hit The Road To Pinpoint Airborne Culprits
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Mar 17, 2006Pinpointing sources of unhealthy air pollutants is the goal of Virginia Tech College of Engineering researcher Linsey Marr, who has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award to support her investigation. Reducing Soot Particles Is Associated With Longer Lives 
Boston MA (SPX) Mar 16, 2006An eight-year follow up to the landmark Harvard Six Cities Study has found an association between people living longer and cities reducing the amount of fine particulate matter, or soot, in their air. The study has been published in the March 15 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Researchers Probe Insect Flight Muscles One Molecule At A Time 
Galveston TX (SPX) Mar 17, 2006Using an instrument able to manipulate single molecules with unprecedented precision, researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) have made the first direct measurements of the mechanical properties of the muscle proteins that help insects fly. |
South Korean Court Rejects Bid To Save Wetlands
Seoul (AFP) Mar 17, 2006South Korea's highest court on Thursday rejected a petition to save a vast tract of coastal wetland threatened by the country's biggest land reclamation project. More than 40,000 hectares (98,800 acres) of wetlands at the mouth of two rivers at Saemangum on the southwest coast are scheduled to disappear beneath landfill. Strong Storms Linked With Rising Sea Surface Temperatures 
Atlanta GA (SPX) Mar 17, 2006Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have released a study supporting the findings of several studies last year linking an increase in the strength of hurricanes around the world to a global increase in sea surface temperature. US, Russia Press For Global Nuclear Energy Network 
Moscow (AFP) Mar 16, 2006The United States pressed Wednesday for a new UN-supervised regime to allow the spread of atomic power while impeding nuclear weapons proliferation, joining Russian calls for an international atomic network. |
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