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Canada's Role Grows Amid Droughts And FloodsWaterloo, Canada (SPX) Mar 01, 2011 Famed especially for the excellence of its peacekeepers and ice hockey players, Canada's water experts are now increasingly needed to help countries elsewhere brace for drought, flood and unsafe water problems looming on a 15 to 20 year horizon. Within a single generation, recent studies show, water demand in many countries will exceed supply by an estimated 40%, with one-third of humanity having half the water required for life's basics. In flood-prone places, meanwhile, catastrophic flood events ... read more |
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  Hotspots Of Carbon Confusion In Indonesia Threaten To Warm The World More Quickly Indonesia has promised to become a world leader in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In 2009, the president committed to a 26% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 to below 'business-as-us ... more | .. |
  Climate Change Causing Demise Of Lodgepole Pine In Western North America Lodgepole pine, a hardy tree species that can thrive in cold temperatures and plays a key role in many western ecosystems, is already shrinking in range as a result of climate change - and may almos ... more | .. |
  Investigating The Function Of Junk DNA In Human Genes Part of the answer to how and why primates differ from other mammals, and humans differ from other primates, may lie in the repetitive stretches of the genome that were once considered "junk." ... more | .. |
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 Study: Brain is a 'self-building toolkit' U.S. researchers say evidence is mounting that regions of the human brain can take over functions they were not genetically designed to perform. ... more | .. |
 Google backs climate-change weather insurance startup Google on Monday was among investors pumping $42 million into a climate change inspired technology startup that calculates the chances of crops being ruined by weather. ... more | .. |
  US voices concern to China over media crackdown The US ambassador to Beijing, Jon Huntsman, voiced "deep concerns" to the Chinese authorities over a harsh crackdown on foreign journalists, a US official said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Spotlight On Local Change This is the first installment of a new, regular series in The Hot Zone that spotlights the local effects of climate change in different places in the world. As the globe heats up, it's becomin ... more |
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China emissions flat in third quarter as solar surges: study
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  NASA Spacecraft Images New Zealand Quake Region A day after a powerful magnitude 6.3 earthquake rocked Christchurch, a city of 377,000 on New Zealand's South Island, on Feb. 22, 2011, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiom ... more | .. |
  DLR Researchers Contribute New Insights On Changes In The Ozone Layer German Aerospace Center researchers have been instrumental in the preparation of a report on the changes in the Ozone Layer for the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The report was published ... more | .. |
  Candid Cameras Give A Chance To See Wildlife As A Scientist Does The new website allows the public to see exactly what scientists see in their research-photos of wildlife captured at close range, from the head-on stare of a jaguar in Peru to inside the mouth of a ... more | .. |
 Arctic Environment During An Ancient Bout Of Natural Global Warming Scientists are unravelling the environmental changes that took place around the Arctic during an exceptional episode of ancient global warming. Newly published results from a high-resolution study o ... more |
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 International Consortium To Study Impacts Of Iron Fertilisation Scientists at the UK's National Oceanography Centre (NOC) will participate in an international effort to assess the efficacy of ocean iron fertilisation (OIF) in reducing the amount of carbon dioxid ... more | .. |
 Marine 'Networks' Can Protect Fish Stocks University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science faculty were part of an international scientific team to show that strong links between the corals reefs of the South Chi ... more | .. |
 Survey Finds More Sea Islands Disappear In China A five-year government survey finds that China faces a worsening problem over the disappearance of sea islands caused by disorderly and crude exploitation. Reclamation, sand dredging, and bomb ... more | .. |
BASIC nations eye next climate meeting The BASIC group of countries - India, China, Brazil and South Africa - called for specific issues to be addressed before December's climate conference in Durban, South Africa. ... more |
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Geopolitical instability and AI drive transformation in EO market
'Western tech dominance fading' at Lisbon's Web Summit
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  Plagiarism affair puts Merkel in hot seat Pressure is rising on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to sack Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, who has come under fire for allegedly cheating in his 2006 doctoral dissertation. ... more | .. |
  Russia jails four environmentalists after protest Four environmental activists were sentenced to seven and 10 days behind bars Monday after being detained near what they alleged to be an illegally built residence for Krasnodar region's governor. ... more | .. |
Iran's Salehi says Arab protests unlike Iranian ones Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Monday that protests in Iran were manipulated and bore no semblance to the popular uprisings in the Arab world. ... more | .. |
We'll oust Kadhafi ourselves, Libyans tell West Libyan pro-democracy protesters say they are determined to unseat strongman Moamer Kadhafi without any foreign military intervention, even at the cost of further bloodshed. ... more |
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  South Korea charges alleged Somali pirates Five alleged Somali pirates facing attempted murder and maritime robbery charges in South Korea may have benefited from a ransom paid during an earlier hijacking. ... more | .. |
Walker's World: Arab spring turns chill It took a while but it is becoming ever more clear that the North African revolutions are unlikely to unfold like a morality play in which good defeats evil, not like a fairy tale in which all live happily ever after. ... more | .. |
More China rallies planned after tough clampdown Organisers of an online anti-government campaign called Monday for new rallies in China on March 6 despite a smothering security response at the weekend that saw foreign journalists roughed up. ... more | .. |
Pollution threatens Chinese growth: minister Dire pollution and the gobbling of resources have caused China grave environmental problems and could restrain economic growth if not addressed properly, the environment minister said Monday. ... more |
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Tiangong hosts dual crews after debris impact delays Shenzhou-20 return
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Madagascar navy rescues pirate-seized vessel Madagascar's navy Sunday towed into Antsiranana port a hijacked Comoros-flagged vessel almost a week after its captain and two suspected pirates arrived on the island to seek help, an official said. ... more | .. |
 China's Wen vows action, police smother 'rallies' Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledged on Sunday to tackled a range of hot-button public concerns as an online call for rallies across the country to pressure the government fizzled in major cities. ... more | .. |
  Year after Chile quake, president pledges vigilance Chilean President Sebastian Pinera vowed Saturday to stand by victims of the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck one year ago this weekend, but civic organizations protested the slow reconstruction. ... more | .. |
 Makeshift toilets part of life in quake-hit city For Christchurch mother-of-two Nicky White, the city's deadly earthquake has left no room for delicacy as her family struggles with the basics of everyday life such as finding a toilet. ... more |
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  Applications for modified animals debated The Canadian government is considering requests to allow genetically modified fish and pigs, but the public may never hear of their decision, critics say. ... more | .. |
 High food prices threaten seething Mideast As if the Middle East wasn't battered enough by political turmoil, analysts say the region is likely to be hit by rising food prices - one of the problems that triggered the unrest. ... more | .. |
 Homoplasy: A Good Thread To Pull To Understand The Evolutionary Ball Of Yarn Studying the many potential reasons why the same trait has independently evolved in different species (homoplasy) can improve our understanding of the genetic, developmental and evolutionary relatio ... more | .. |
 Drought rattles farmers in eastern China Yu Ruicheng's weathered face creases with worry as she stands on her dry wheat field in eastern China, where a record drought is threatening to send soaring global food prices even higher. ... more |
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