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A melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet this century may drive more water than previously thought toward the already threatened coastlines of New York, Boston, Halifax, and other cities in the northeastern United States and Canada, new research shows. The study finds that if Greenland ice melts at moderate to high rates, ocean circulation by 2100 may shift and cause sea levels off the north ... read more 
Washington DC (SPX) May 28, 2009Private well water should be tested yearly, and in some cases more often, according to new guidance offered by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, took a lead role in working with the AAP to develop these recommendations and draft a new AAP policy statement about the t ... more |
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Edgewater MD (SPX) May 28, 2009Overfishing and disease have decimated shellfish populations in many of the world's temperate estuarine and coastal ecosystems. Smithsonian scientists, led by Whitman Miller, ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md., have discovered another serious threat to these valuable filter feeders-rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide that contribute to the acidif ... more 
Paris (AFP) May 27, 2009Melting permafrost could eventually disgorge a billion tonnes a year of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, accelerating the threat from climate change, scientists said Wednesday. Their probe sought to shed light on a fiercely-debated but poorly-understood concern: the future of organic matter that today is locked up in the frozen soil of Alaska, Canada, northern Europe and Siberia. ... more  
Manila (AFP) May 27, 2009Japan on Wednesday extended a two billion-peso (42.3 million-dollar) grant to the Philippines to help it improve its defences against deadly typhoons, the Filipino government said. The grant package from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) includes funding for a 1.6 billion-peso project to replace three meteorological alert systems along the country's Pacific Ocean coast. ... more  
St. Louis MO (SPX) May 28, 2009A 47-million-year-old primate fossil, a purported "missing link" between primates and humans, was unveiled this week in New York. The fossil, formally called Darwinius masillae but nicknamed Ida, could, due to it being an essentially whole skeleton, shed light on the construction of the primate family tree, says an expert on primate evolution at Washington University in St. Louis. ... more |
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Madrid, Spain (SPX) May 28, 2009The Mediterranean region is a very active cyclone area, and is often affected by these atmospheric phenomena, which bring strong winds and heavy rain. Despite the efforts of the scientific community to improve numerical cyclone prediction, the systems developed are costly. "Sensitivity studies are a low-cost and efficient way of establishing the best kinds of observation strategies", Loren ... more 
Beijing (AFP) May 27, 2009China is ready to strengthen its cooperation with the United States to combat climate change, Premier Wen Jiabao told US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday, state media reported. "China will cement policy dialogue with the United States, take the joint tackling of climate change as an important aspect of cooperation and push for positive results in the Copenhagen Climate Change ... more  
Hong Kong (AFP) May 27, 2009The human swine flu toll in Asia grew Wednesday as Australia's infections more than doubled and Japan and South Korea announced new cases, helping to push the global total to almost 13,000. Singapore confirmed its first case while Hong Kong, where Asia's first infection from the A(H1N1) virus sparked a week-long quarantine of around 300 guests and staff at a city hotel, announced a fresh to ... more 
Santa Barbara CA (SPX) May 28, 2009New fossil findings discovered by scientists at UC Santa Barbara challenge prevailing views about the effects of "Snowball Earth" glaciations on life, according to an article in the June issue of the journal Nature Geoscience. By analyzing microfossils in rocks from the bottom of the Grand Canyon, the authors have challenged the view that has been generally assumed to be correct for the ... more |
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