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World Phosphorus Use Crosses Critical ThresholdMadison WI (SPX) Feb 17, 2011 Recalculating the global use of phosphorus, a fertilizer linchpin of modern agriculture, a team of researchers warns that the world's stocks may soon be in short supply and that overuse in the industrialized world has become a leading cause of the pollution of lakes, rivers and streams. Writing in the Feb. 14 edition of the journal Environmental Research Letters, Stephen Carpenter of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Elena Bennett of McGill University report that the human use of phosphorus, ... read more |
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  China refuses to condemn mob tactics on reporters China acknowledged Thursday that foreign journalists were blocked from interviewing a prominent human rights activist but stopped short of condemning the rough tactics used to thwart their work. ... more | .. |
  Rising Seas Will Affect Major US Coastal Cities By 2100 Rising sea levels could threaten an average of 9 percent of the land within 180 U.S. coastal cities by 2100, according to new research led by University of Arizona scientists. The Gulf and sou ... more | .. |
  Worldwide Sulfur Emissions Rose Between 2000-2005, After Decade Of Decline A new analysis of sulfur emissions appearing in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics shows that after declining for a decade, worldwide emissions rose again in 2000 due largely to internati ... more | .. |
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  Researchers Working Toward Automating Sedation In Intensive Care Units Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Northeast Georgia Medical Center are one step closer to their goal of automating the management of sedation in hospital intensive care unit ... more | .. |
 Trialling Ocean Temperature Forecasts For Fish Farms Marine scientists are trialling the first near-shore water temperature forecasts to assist Australia's aquaculture farm managers contending with rising ocean temperatures. While land farmers h ... more | .. |
 New Way To Estimate Global Rainfall And Track Ocean Pollution A study by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science suggests a new way to estimate how much of the ocean's pollution is falling from the sky. ... more | .. |
 Natural Power Assist The Shetland Islands To Map Their Marine Renewable Resources Natural Power's marine renewables team have been working with Shetland Islands Council over the past 12 months to map their marine renewable resources as a follow on to the Council's successful Mari ... more |
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China emissions flat in third quarter as solar surges: study
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  Living Fast But Dying Older Is Possible; If You're A Sheep According to Dr Annette Baudisch of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, current methods of comparing patterns of ageing are limited because they confound two diffe ... more | .. |
  Australia cyclone weakens after hitting Darwin A tropical cyclone lashing northern Australia weakened to a low pressure system after crossing land near Darwin on Thursday, bringing wild winds and torrential rains. ... more | .. |
  If Greenhouse Gas Emissions Stopped Now, Earth Still Would Likely Get Warmer While governments debate about potential policies that might curb the emission of greenhouse gases, new University of Washington research shows that the world is already committed to a warmer climat ... more | .. |
  Flu season has some turning to Chinese remedies "Big Snake Mak" has a secret weapon to fend off the threat of flu - it wriggles and hisses in a basket at his side. ... more |
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  Thawing permafrost may speed global warming: study Global warming could cause up to 60 percent of the world's permafrost to thaw by 2200 and release huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere that would further speed up climate change, a study released Wednesday warned. ... more | .. |
Beijing police crack down in activist case: lawyers Beijing police have interrogated, beaten and detained attorneys involved in the case of a blind human rights activist who has lashed out over his "illegal" house arrest, lawyers said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Feds still working on Asian carp problem A federal official outlined for an audience in Milwaukee the government's efforts to protect endangered freshwater fisheries from the invasive Asian carp. ... more | .. |
  Outside View: Egypt and Pakistan For very different reasons, extraordinary events in Egypt and Pakistan could dramatically redefine global politics. ... more |
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Geopolitical instability and AI drive transformation in EO market
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 Increased flooding driven by climate change: study Global warming driven by human activity boosted the intensity of rain, snow and consequent flooding in the northern hemisphere over the last half of the 20th century, research released Wednesday has shown. ... more | .. |
  Seven hurt as record snow buries S. Korea market Seven people were injured when an awning at a South Korean market collapsed Wednesday under the weight of record snowfall, the local fire brigade said. ... more | .. |
 Controversial Swedish wolf hunt ends, one escapes Sweden's controversial wolf hunt, which has sparked widespread criticism from environmentalists and legal action from the European Commission, ended with hunters failing to cull one of the 20 animals in the quota, officials said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Japan whalers suspend hunt, may end mission early Japanese whalers have suspended their Antarctic hunt, citing harassment by environmentalists, and are considering ending their annual mission early, a fisheries agency official said Wednesday. ... more |
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China rice laced with heavy metals: report Up to 10 percent of rice grown in China is contaminated with harmful heavy metals but little has been done to highlight the possible public health risks, a report said. ... more | .. |
  British navy frees Yemeni fishermen from pirates The British navy freed five Yemeni fishermen held hostage for three months on their boat, but also had to release the Somali pirates who seized their dhow, officials in London said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Cambodian killer elephant dies in new home An elephant that killed its owner and then went on a 10-day rampage in the Cambodian countryside before being taken in by an animal rescue centre has died unexpectedly, officials said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
Reporters roughed up near China activist's home Foreign reporters were roughed up while trying to visit blind Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng this week by aggressive mobs apparently working for authorities, journalists said Wednesday. ... more |
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  Central America has highest forest loss Central America has had the highest rate of forest loss in Latin America for the last decade despite efforts to curb the decline, a U.N. report says. ... more | .. |
 Polar Bear Births Could Plummet With Climate Change University of Alberta researchers Peter Molnar, Andrew Derocher and Mark Lewis studied the reproductive ecology of polar bears in Hudson Bay and have linked declining litter sizes with loss of sea i ... more | .. |
 44-Year-Old Mystery Of How Fleas Jump Resolved If you thought that we know everything about how the flea jumps, think again. In 1967, Henry Bennet-Clark discovered that fleas store the energy needed to catapult themselves into the air in an elas ... more | .. |
 A New Way To Attack Pathogens Scientists have discovered a new way to attack dangerous pathogens, marking a hopeful next step in the ever-escalating battle between man and microbe. In a paper published online Feb. 10 in th ... more |
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 Understanding Patterns Of Seafloor Biomass The vast majority of the biological production in the world's oceans occurs within sunlit surface waters - the so-called photic zone. Through the process of photosynthesis, tiny marine plants called ... more | .. |
 Tiny Crustacean Holds The Record For Most Genes In An Animal Scientists have discovered that the animal with the most genes--about 31,000--is the near-microscopic freshwater crustacean Daphnia pulex, or water flea. By comparison, humans have about 23,000 gene ... more | .. |
 Revisited Human-Worm Relationships Shed Light On Brain Evolution "Man is but a worm" was the title of a famous caricature of Darwin's ideas in Victorian England. Now, 120 years later, a molecular analysis of mysterious marine creatures unexpectedly reveals our co ... more | .. |
 Newly Discovered Pheromone Linked To Aggressive Behavior In Squid Scientists have identified a pheromone produced by female squid that triggers immediate and dramatic fighting in male squid that come into contact with it. The aggression-producing pheromone, believ ... more |
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