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Humans Give Prey The Edge In Food WebCalgary, Canada (SPX) Mar 08, 2011 A new paper by University of Calgary researchers, published in PLoS ONE, demonstrates the edge given to prey in the "space race" by human activity. The research was conducted by two University of Calgary students, a University of Calgary Post-Doctoral Fellow and two University of Calgary professors from the Faculty of Environmental Design, Department of Geomatics in the Schulich School of Engineering and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. The research looked at how predator-prey interactions and ... read more |
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  Reviving 100-Year-Old Diatoms Diatoms account for a large proportion of the phytoplankton found in the water, and live both in the open sea and in freshwater lakes. By reviving 100-year-old spores that had laid buried and inacti ... more | .. |
 Grazing Of Cattle Pastures Can Improve Soil Quality A team of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists has given growers in the Piedmont guidance on how to restore degraded soils and make the land productive. Researchers with the USDA's Agric ... more | .. |
  A New Model To Measure Organic Carbon In Surface Waters A new carbon model allows scientists to estimate sources and losses of organic carbon in surface waters in the United States. Study results indicate that streams act as both sources and sinks for or ... more | .. |
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  GOCE Delivers On Its Promise ESA's GOCE satellite has reached its ambitious goal of mapping Earth's gravity with unprecedented precision. In two short years, the sophisticated satellite has collected the measurements needed to ... more | .. |
 NASA's Bolden defends Earth science NASA Administrator Charles Bolden defended NASA's Earth science missions before a U.S. House committee, saying such projects were part of NASA's job. ... more | .. |
  Tibet closed to foreign tourists in March Chinese authorities have closed the troubled Tibetan region to foreign tourists, travel agents said Monday, ahead of the third anniversary of violent anti-government riots there. ... more | .. |
 China FM says no tension despite protest campaign China's foreign minister on Monday dismissed suggestions of heightened domestic tension following calls for anti-government protests inspired by the "Jasmine" uprisings in the Arab world. ... more |
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 Chinese police beef up street patrols Chinese security forces increased their presence on Beijing streets amid a third week of calls over the Internet for pro-democracy protests and demonstrations. ... more | .. |
 Worms Strike See-Saw Balance In Disease Resistance New research, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has shown that nematode worms have to trade-off resistance to different diseases, gaining resistance to one ... more | .. |
  Effectiveness Of Wastewater Treatment May Be Damaged During A Severe Flu Pandemic Existing plans for antiviral and antibiotic use during a severe influenza pandemic could reduce wastewater treatment efficiency prior to discharge into receiving rivers, resulting in water quality d ... more | .. |
  Soot Packs A Punch On Tibetan Plateau's Climate In some cases, soot - the fine, black carbon silt that is released from stoves, cars and manufacturing plants - can pack more of a climatic punch than greenhouse gases, according to a paper publishe ... more |
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 Will Loss Of Plant Diversity Compromise Earth's Life-Support Systems? Biodiversity around the world is increasingly threatened by global warming, habitat loss, and other human impacts. But what does this loss of species mean for the functioning of ecosystems that huma ... more | .. |
  'Superstorm' could devastate California A superstorm that could hit California once every 200 years would devastate the state's economy worse than during the Great Recession, an economist says. ... more | .. |
  Slovakia's winter death-toll hits 122, authorities say The cold weather has claimed 122 lives this winter in Slovakia, local health authorities said, but were unable to confirm the number of homeless victims. ... more | .. |
  24 dead in Mozambique flood season Twenty-four people were killed during Mozambique's 2009-2010 flood season, an official said Monday, as the government downscaled the red alert in the last remaining flood-prone areas. ... more |
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Geopolitical instability and AI drive transformation in EO market
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 Singapore to triple desalination capacity by 2013 Singapore will more than triple its desalinated water capacity in two years' time when the country's second and largest desalination plant starts operations, the government said Monday. ... more | .. |
  'Overweight' Chinese show lowest death risk: study Chinese men and women on the verge of what is considered overweight among Causcasians actually showed the lowest risk of death when compared to their own cultural counterparts, said a study on Monday. ... 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 | .. |
 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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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Tiangong hosts dual crews after debris impact delays Shenzhou-20 return
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 |
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  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 | .. |
 Shrinking Tundra, Advancing Forests: How The Arctic Will Look By Century's End 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 ... 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 | .. |
 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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