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Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jul 07, 2004The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) sees the draft amendment to the Genetic Engineering Act as a restriction on innovation and research in Germany. If the amendment were to be passed in its current form it runs the risk, in the opinion of the DFG, of putting German researchers at a considerable disadvantage on the international playing field. As Humans Alter Land, Infectious Diseases Follow 
Madison WI (SPX) Jul 05, 2004As people remake the world's landscapes, cutting forests, draining wetlands, building roads and dams, and pushing the margins of cities ever outward, infectious diseases are gaining new toeholds, cropping up in new places and new hosts, and posing an ever-increasing risk to human and animal health. |
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When Sun's Too Strong, Plankton Make Clouds
Greenbelt (SPX) Jul 05, 2004People say size doesn't matter, and that may be true for tiny plankton, those free-floating ocean plants that make up the bottom of the marine food-chain. Little plankton may be able to change the weather, and longer term climate, in ways that serve them better. Lake Mead Water Level Drops 2000-2004 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 05, 2004Water is the lifeblood of the western United States. Not only does it sustain municipal drinking supplies and agriculture, it is also one of the primary sources of electricity. Design Competition For New Antarctic Research Station 
Cambridge, UK (SPX) Jun 30, 2004A major international competition to design a new scientific research station at one of the Earth's most extreme environments � Antarctica - is launched this week by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Inaugural Voyage Of The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Sets Sail 
Arlington VA (SPX) Jun 30, 2004Scientists affiliated with the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), an international scientific research program designed to contribute fundamental knowledge to the topics of climate change, geologic hazards, energy resources, and Earth's environment, departed Astoria, Ore., June 28, for the first leg of six planned expeditions. At the Juan de Fuca Ridge, off the coast of British Columbia, the first IODP expedition will undertake hydrologic, microbiological, seismic and tracer studies to evaluate fluid flow within the oceanic crust. Drinking Water Desalination And The Removal Of Arsenic 
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Jun 29, 2004Research in the areas of desalination and removal of arsenic in water will step up at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Sandia National Laboratories over the next few years, the result of a $6 million allocation in the FY2004 federal Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill. NASA Spacecraft Detects Volcanic Activity In Antarctica 
Greenbelt (SPX) Jun 28, 2004Antarctica, the coldest place on Earth, is also home to volcanic fire. Looming above the frigid sea is Mount Erebus, a volcano that has erupted frequently over the last 200 years. For the first time, software on a NASA spacecraft has discovered a new eruption on Erebus and reprogrammed the spacecraft for a repeat observation without human input. New Software On NASA Spacecraft Monitors Active Volcano
Pasadena (JPL) Jun 28, 2004Software on a NASA spacecraft recently made a scientific observation on its own without human interaction. The Space Technology 6 Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment captured images of Antarctica's Mount Erebus and detected volcanic activity. |
Counting Nemo And Friends Under The Arctic
for Astrobiology MagazineMoffet Field CA (SPX) Jun 28, 2004 A multinational partnership of polar scientists will take an historic census of marine life in the Arctic Ocean, including the planet's oldest seawater - a vast, still pool unstirred for millennia, walled by steep ridges and lidded with ice. The earth's biological census currently lists around 28,000 species with a backbone--a miniscule number of advanced species (vertebrates) relative to the microbial or marine ecosphere. Melting Ice Cap Gives Urgency To New Census Of Arctic Life 
Washington (SPX) Jun 25, 2004A multinational partnership of polar scientists will take an historic census of marine life in the Arctic Ocean, including the planet's oldest seawater � a vast, still pool unstirred for millennia, walled by steep ridges and lidded with ice. Ocean Currents Redistribute Heat During Warming & Cooling 
Bremen (SPX) Jun 25, 2004A paper published this week in the journal Science supports the hypothesis that heat transfer by ocean currents � rather than global heating or cooling � may have been responsible for the global temperature patterns associated with the abrupt climate changes seen in the North Atlantic during the past 80,000 years. Common Chemicals Morphing Into Potential Toxins In Arctic 
Toronto ON (SPX) Jun 24, 2004Compounds used to protect carpets and fabrics may be travelling to remote regions of the planet and undergoing chemical reactions before building up in the food chain, says a new study from the University of Toronto. Dark Days Doomed Dinosaurs, Say Purdue Scientists 
West Lafayette IN - Jun 24, 2004Though the catastrophe that destroyed the dinosaurs' world may have begun with blazing fire, it probably ended with icy darkness, according to a Purdue University research group. Shape Of Ocean Mountain Ranges Turn An Old Idea Upside Down 
New York NY (SPX) Jun 23, 2004What causes the peaks and valleys of the world�s great mountains? For continental ranges like the Appalachians or the Northwest�s Cascades, the geological picture is clearer. Continents crash or volcanoes erupt, then glaciers erode away. Yet scientists are still puzzling out what makes the highs high and the lows low for the planet�s largest mountain chain, the 55,000-mile-long Mid-Ocean Ridge. Seafloor Observatories For Studying Water Flow In Ocean Crust 
Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Jun 22, 2004An international team of scientists will investigate how water flows through rock formations beneath the seafloor during an eight-week expedition this summer to the eastern flank of the Juan de Fuca Ridge off the coast of British Columbia. |
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