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Shrinking Tundra, Advancing Forests: How The Arctic Will Look By Century's EndLincoln NE (SPX) Mar 07, 2011 Imagine the vast, empty tundra in Alaska and Canada giving way to trees, shrubs and plants typical of more southerly climates. Imagine similar changes in large parts of Eastern Europe, northern Asia and Scandinavia, as needle-leaf and broadleaf forests push northward into areas once unable to support them. Imagine part of Greenland's ice cover, once thought permanent, receding and leaving new tundra in its wake. Those changes are part of a reorganization of Arctic climates anticipated to occur by ... read more |
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  A Research Study Reveals The Deterioration In The Mediterranean Farmland Patrimony A research study, in which Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) is taking part, has concluded that traditionally irrigated Mediterranean landscape has suffered an important loss of the cultural a ... more | .. |
  California Islands Give Up Evidence Of Early Seafaring Evidence for a diversified sea-based economy among North American inhabitants dating from 12,200 to 11,400 years ago is emerging from three sites on California's Channel Islands. Reporting in ... more | .. |
  Patients Are Willing To Undergo Multiple Tests For New Cancer Treatments Cancer patients are willing to undergo many tests to receive advanced experimental treatment in clinical trials, according to a new study by Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale Healthcare and the Translational ... more | .. |
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  Bleak future for Christchurch as population flees After a deadly earthquake left homes creaking and wiped out buildings and jobs, thousands of residents have turned their back on Christchurch, raising questions over the city's future. ... more | .. |
 Haiti carnival turns dark as it returns after quake Carnival has returned to Haiti, a year after the devastating earthquake, but this time it is darker and more menacing rippling with violent undertones as Haitians seek to exorcise their demons. ... more | .. |
 Libya's neighbours await new refugee influx Libya's neighbours Algeria and Tunisia on Saturday readied themselves for a new tide of refugees while France sent a warship to repatriate Egyptian refugees fleeing the unrest. ... more | .. |
 Scripps Oceanography Researchers Discover Arctic Blooms Occurring Earlier Warming temperatures and melting ice in the Arctic may be behind a progressively earlier bloom of a crucial annual marine event, and the shift could hold consequences for the entire food chain and c ... more |
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China emissions flat in third quarter as solar surges: study
Conference travel emissions exceed research energy use
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  New Scientific Field Will Study Ecological Importance Of Sounds A Purdue University researcher is leading an effort to create a new scientific field that will use sound as a way to understand the ecological characteristics of a landscape and to reconnect people ... more | .. |
 What Is Good For You Is Bad For Infectious Bacteria Plants are able to protect themselves from most bacteria, but some bacteria are able to breach their defences. In research to be published in Science on Friday, scientists have identified the genes ... more | .. |
 Some Antarctic Ice Is Forming From Bottom Scientists working in the remotest part of Antarctica have discovered that liquid water locked deep under the continent's coat of ice regularly thaws and refreezes to the bottom, creating as much as ... more | .. |
 New Group Of Algae Discovered A team of biologists has discovered an entirely new group of algae living in a wide variety of marine and freshwater environments. This group of algae, which the researchers dubbed "rappemonads," ha ... more |
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  New System Can Warn of Tsunamis Within Minutes Seismologists have developed a new system that could be used to warn future populations of an impending tsunami only minutes after the initial earthquake. The system, known as RTerg, could help redu ... more | .. |
  China's Wen pledges to address 'great resentment' Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday acknowledged "great resentment" in China over growing income disparity, corruption and other problems, and vowed his government would work harder to meet public demands. ... more | .. |
  China lends Angola $15 bn but creates few jobs China has extended almost $15 billion in credit to Angola since the African oil giant's civil war, but has struggled to hire trained locals for reconstruction projects, Beijing's ambassador told AFP. ... more | .. |
 Asia rice output threatened by pesticide overuse The unbridled manufacture and use of pesticides in Asia is raising the spectre of "pest storms" devastating the region's rice farms and threatening food security, scientists have warned. ... 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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 Mozambique police deny Swazi arms shipment report Mozambican police denied Saturday that Swaziland tried to import two containers of arms through Mozambique, after Swazi dissidents accused the neighbouring country of aiding "a possible bloodbath." ... more | .. |
  Killer whales found to hunt by 'stealth' Killer whales in the Pacific Ocean avoid being heard by their prey as they hunt by going into a cooperative "stealth mode," U.S. and Scottish researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Tsunami warning system described U.S. seismologists say they've developed a system that could warn of an impending tsunami within minutes of an earthquake, giving time to safely evacuate. ... more | .. |
  Graft: a perennial problem for China's leaders The political demise of Li Fengchen bizarrely began after he busted more than 30 officials who had purchased jobs in the eastern China county he ruled. ... more |
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 Research Shows How Bacteria Communicate With Each Other A pathway whereby bacteria communicate with each other has been discovered by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The discovery has important implications for efforts to cope with the ... more | .. |
 China richest man says work key to easing poverty China's richest man Sunday rejected criticism that the rich have done little to help the country's millions of poor and said hard work was the key to lifting themselves out of poverty. ... more | .. |
  Scientists Study Control Of Invasive Tree In Western US Simply by eating the leaves of an invasive tree that soaks up river water, an Asian beetle may help to slow down water loss in the Southwestern United States. Two scientists from UC Santa Barb ... more | .. |
  Flood-Tolerant Rice Plants Can Also Survive Drought Rice, which is sensitive to drought due to its high water requirement, is particularly vulnerable to how global climate change is altering the frequency and magnitude of floods and droughts. If rice ... more |
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Tiangong hosts dual crews after debris impact delays Shenzhou-20 return
Dust and Sand Movements Reshape Martian Slopes
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 Four New Species Of Zombie Ant Fungi Discovered Four new Brazilian species in the genus Ophiocordyceps have been published in the online journal PLoS ONE. The fungi, named by Dr. Harry Evans and Dr. David Hughes, belong to a group of "zombifying" ... more | .. |
  Measuring Methane Methane is an extremely potent greenhouse gas. Wetlands, gas hydrates, permafrost, termites, oceans, freshwater bodies, non-wetland soils, are all natural sources of atmospheric methane; however, th ... more | .. |
 Diversifying Crops May Protect Yields Against A More Variable Climate A survey of how farmers could protect themselves by growing a greater diversity of crops, published in the March issue of BioScience, has highlighted economical steps that farmers could take to mini ... more | .. |
  Using Artificial, Cell-Like Honey Pots' To Entrap Deadly Viruses Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Weill Cornell Medical College have designed artificial "protocells" that can lure, entrap and inactivate a class of ... more |
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  Flying Texas Reptile: World's Oldest Pteranodon Fossilized bones discovered in Texas from a flying reptile that died 89 million years ago may be the earliest occurrence of the prehistoric creature known as Pteranodon. Previously, Pteranodon ... more | .. |
 UF Pine Island Pollen Study Leads To Revision Of State's Ancient Geography A new University of Florida study of 45-million-year-old pollen from Pine Island west of Fort Myers has led to a new understanding of the state's geologic history, showing Florida could be 10 millio ... more | .. |
  Philippines disposes of Cold War-era US bombs Philippine President Benigno Aquino said Saturday the government had completed the safe detonation of some 181 tonnes of Cold War-era bombs left by US forces formerly stationed in the country. ... more | .. |
 Flood-hit area of Benin has message for future president Water lines still stain the sides of bamboo huts in a deeply poor district of Benin's main city, but life has returned, and residents have a message for the candidates in upcoming presidential elections. ... more |
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