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Communicating Uncertain Climate RisksWashington DC (SPX) Apr 01, 2011 Despite much research that demonstrates potential dangers from climate change, public concern has not been increasing. One theory is that this is because the public is not intimately familiar with the nature of the climate uncertainties being discussed. "A major challenge facing climate scientists is explaining to non-specialists the risks and uncertainties surrounding potential" climate change, says a new Perspectives piece published in the science journal Nature Climate Change. The a ... read more |
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  Calculating Livestock Numbers By Weather And Climate Ranchers in the central Great Plains may be using some of their winter downtime in the future to rehearse the upcoming production season, all from the warmth of their homes, according to U.S. Depart ... more | .. |
  How Plants Absorb Pollutants The environmental concern is great when considering the role of toxic contaminants in the plant-soil relationship. Understanding plant's absorption and accumulation of these contaminants from the so ... more | .. |
  Warm Water Causes Extra-Cold Winters In Northeastern North America And Northeastern Asia If you're sitting on a bench in New York City's Central Park in winter, you're probably freezing. After all, the average temperature in January is 32 degrees Fahrenheit. But if you were just across ... more | .. |
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  University Of Nevada, Reno Invents Next-Gen Device To Track World's Air Quality A new air-quality measuring instrument invented by Pat Arnott and Ian Arnold of the University of Nevada, Reno that is more economical, more portable and more accurate than older technologies has be ... more | .. |
 Improve Crop Yield By Removing Manure Solids Manure has long been used as a crop fertilizer, but the challenge of finding an efficient use of the nutrients found in manure is ever present. The ratio of nitrogen to phosphorus in manure is low i ... more | .. |
 EU talks on modified foods break down Negotiations in the European Union on "novel foods" broke down on the issue of labeling food products from the offspring of cloned animals, officials said. ... more | .. |
  Press freedom award goes to -- Hugo Chavez Argentina has bestowed its press freedom award on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez despite the country's draconian treatment of independent or privately owned media companies. ... 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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  Florida whipped by high winds, tornado alert issued Strong winds whipped through central Florida on Thursday, uprooting trees and knocking over street signs as weather officials warned of possible tornadoes. ... more | .. |
  Japan says no need to evacuate village near nuclear plant Japan's nuclear safety agency said Thursday there is no need to evacuate a village 40 km (25 miles) from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant after the UN nuclear watchdog voiced concern. ... more | .. |
  Ivory Coast opposition blockade lifted, police desert: UN A blockade of a hotel housing rivals of Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo has ended and police have deserted him as rebels advance to drive him from power, the UN envoy in Abidjan said on French radio Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Scant hope for change in Myanmar 'civilian' rule Myanmar's attempt to rebrand itself with a nominally civilian government was met with scepticism at home and abroad on Thursday, with critics fearing army power has merely moved into the shadows. ... more |
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  Macedonia plants three million trees to revive forests Thousands of Macedonians took a day off work on Thursday to plant three million trees to revive the nation's forests after fires ravaged an estimated 35,000 hectares (86,000 acres) of greenery. ... more | .. |
 Japan finds radiation above legal limit in beef: report Japan has found radiation above the legal limit in beef from near a stricken nuclear plant, the first such finding in meat since a quake and tsunami triggered the atomic crisis, local media reported. ... more | .. |
 Hundreds of bodies in Japan nuclear exclusion zone: report Up to 1,000 bodies of victims of Japan's quake and tsunami remain uncollected in the exclusion zone around a stricken nuclear plant because of radiation fears, a report said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Taiwan shipper fined $1 mn in US pollution case Taiwan-based Koo's Shipping Company was ordered Thursday to pay $1 million for illegally dumping oily waste into US waters in Pago Pago Harbor, American Samoa, officials said. ... 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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  Google's citizen cartographers map out the world Google on Thursday revealed that an army of citizen cartographers is behind its widely used mapping service, helping the Internet search giant chart the world, including often inaccessible places. ... more | .. |
  Web hosting titan under fire for killing elephant The founder of website domain hosting firm Go Daddy was under fire on Thursday for an online video showing him proudly killing an elephant in Zimbabwe. ... more | .. |
  After 30 years, war on AIDS at 'moment of truth' With the war on AIDS nearing its 30th anniversary, the UN on Thursday declared "a moment of truth" had come for new strategies to address the campaign's failures and brake costs that were now unsustainable. ... more | .. |
 Japan nuclear plant's disaster plan inadequate: report Disaster plans at Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant appear woefully inadequate, including only one satellite phone and a single stretcher in case of an accident, a report said Thursday. ... more |
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  Government critics pressured in China crackdown Rattled by Arab unrest and the growing power of the Internet, China has launched its harshest crackdown on dissent in years, which rights groups say has wiped out years of effort by dogged activists. ... more | .. |
  Chatting babies video a YouTube sensation A video of a pair of diaper-clad babies seemingly engaged in an animated conversation in a home kitchen was a fast-spreading YouTube sensation on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Japan nuclear refugees feel 'betrayed' Refugees who fled Japan's tsunami-hit nuclear reactors say they have been betrayed by the company that runs them, accusing embattled operator TEPCO of creating a "man-made disaster". ... 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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  Radiation in sea off Japan nuclear plant 4,385 times limit The level of radioactive iodine in the sea off Japan's disaster-hit Fukushima nuclear plant has soared to its highest reading yet at 4,385 times the legal limit, the plant operator said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  A mother's search in post-tsunami Japan Thousands of families are missing loved ones almost three weeks after a powerful earthquake and tsunami devastated towns and lives along Japan's northeast coast. ... more | .. |
 A New Scramble For African Riches - Its Consumers When the world's biggest retail company, US-based Walmart, bought a majority stake in South Africa's Massmart - also a retail company - for a staggering $2.5 billion last year, eyebrows were raised. ... more | .. |
 Climate Talks: Storm Clouds Ahead When thousands of ministers, scientists and activists descended on the Mexican resort town of Cancun for another gruelling round of talks on climate change last December, there was little of the deb ... more |
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  First Broad-Scale Maps Of Life On The Sea-Shelf Marine scientists from five research agencies have pooled their skills and resources to compile a directory of life on Australia's continental shelf. They examined the shelf seascape during a three ... more | .. |
 Climate Modelling And The Rain Extreme precipitation events seem to be becoming more common in the Northern Hemisphere. But it's been very hard for scientists to pinpoint a major weather event to global warming. Still, when a 100 ... more | .. |
 Deep-Sea Volcanoes Explode Between 75 and 80 per cent of all volcanic activity on Earth takes place at deep-sea, mid-ocean ridges. Most of these volcanoes produce effusive lava flows rather than explosive eruptions, both beca ... more | .. |
 Virus in Chinese ducks could infect humans Ducks, an important item in Chinese cuisine, have been felled by a new virus threatening Chinese duck farms, agricultural officials in that country say. ... more |
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