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California Superstorm Would Be Costliest US DisasterSan Diego CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2011 A hurricane-like superstorm expected to hit California once every 200 years would cause devastation to the state's businesses unheard of even in the Great Recession, a USC economist warns. Researchers estimate the total property damage and business interruption costs of the massive rainstorm would be nearly $1 trillion. USC research professor Adam Rose calculated that the lost production of goods and services alone would be $627 billion of the total over five years. Rose, a professor with th ... read more |
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  Fossil Bird Study Describes Ripple Effect Of Extinction In Animal Kingdom A University of Florida study demonstrates extinction's ripple effect through the animal kingdom, including how the demise of large mammals 20,000 years ago led to the disappearance of one species o ... more | .. |
  Rainwater Harvesting For the past few years, one of the most common questions facing the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) hasn't been over contentious water rights or proposed water projects; it's been from homeowne ... more | .. |
  Loss Of Plant Diversity Threatens Earth's Life-Support Systems An international team of researchers including professor Emmett Duffy of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science has published a comprehensive new analysis showing that loss of plant biodiversity d ... more | .. |
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 Evolution Drives Many Plants And Animals To Be Bigger, Faster For the vast majority of plants and animals, the 'bigger is better' view of evolution may not be far off the mark, says a new broad-scale study of natural selection. Organisms with bigger bodies or ... more | .. |
  You Are What Your Mother Ate Poor diet during pregnancy increases offspring's vulnerability to the effects of aging, new research has shown for the first time. The research, by scientists from the University of Cambridge, ... more | .. |
 Otters On Road To Recovery In Andalusia Improved environmental conditions have enabled the otter (Lutra lutra) to spread in Andalusia over the past 20 years. However, the recovery of populations of this mammal has been "relatively" slow, ... more | .. |
 Unique Frog Helps Amphibian Conservation Efforts A tropical frog - the only one of its kind in the world - is providing conservationists with exclusive insights into the genetic make-up of its closest endangered relatives. University of Manc ... more |
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 A Study Reveals The Keys To The Locomotion Of Snails A research study in which the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) is participating has found evidence that suggests that the key to locomotion in snails stems from the animal's complex muscle mo ... more | .. |
  Arabs turn tables on hated secret police Pro-democracy protesters in Egypt have stormed the Cairo headquarters of the once-feared internal security apparatus and seized secret files. ... more | .. |
 Southern Africa may be home of modern man Modern humans may have originated in southern Africa, where hunter-gatherer populations had the greatest genetic diversity, British researchers said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Report: Eco-farming can double crop yields Food production in poor countries can be doubled within 10 years if small farms switch to ecological agriculture, a study issued by the United Nations says. ... more |
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  Macedonia reports four new swine flu deaths The health authorities in Macedonia on Tuesday reported that in the last two days four people died of swine flu including a pregnant woman, bringing the toll for this year to six. ... more | .. |
  EU pulls up shy of bold climate emissions targets The European Commission on Tuesday set out recommendations for EU states to radically slash CO2 emissions by 2050, but avoided upsetting governments or industry with precise targets. ... more | .. |
 Argentine fisheries yields down a third Argentina's fisheries yields showed a dramatic drop of almost one-third in the first two months of the year, new data from the country's fisheries and aquaculture department indicated. ... more | .. |
  Tibet won't crumble when Dalai Lama dies: China The eventual death of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, will have no major impact on the stability of the Chinese-ruled region, state media on Tuesday quoted top officials as saying. ... more |
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Geopolitical instability and AI drive transformation in EO market
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SW China mega-city building huge security system The mega-city of Chongqing in southwest China plans to build a $2.6 billion security system that will be one of the world's largest with 500,000 surveillance cameras, state media said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Gale-force winds, snowfall snarl Greek power, shipping Gale-force winds and heavy snowfall in parts of Greece on Tuesday left many areas without electricity and forced authorities to shut down schools in several districts, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Old wild bird a new mom ... at 60 The oldest known U.S. wild bird, conservatively estimated to be about 60 years old, is a new mom, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reported Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Trading places: Kenyans swap carbon roles to save forest Mwakitau Kaleghe used to scratch out a living from burning charcoal, culled from trees whose felling helped turn a rich tropical woodland in southern Kenya into a desolate mosaic. ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 Humans Give Prey The Edge In Food Web 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 ... 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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 '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 | .. |
 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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  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 | .. |
Cuba cuts jobs, still holds 100 dissidents Cuba is cutting back state jobs as part of its plan to embrace market economy in stages but still holds at least 100 political prisoners without trial, independent media reports said. ... 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 | .. |
  First protests in Guinea since Conde takes power Protesters rallied Monday in two towns in Guinea in the first demonstrations since Alpha Conde became the country's first democratically elected leader in November, police and demonstrators said. ... more |
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