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Ancient Corals Provide Insight On The Future Of Caribbean ReefsMiami FL (SPX) Apr 11, 2011 Climate change is already widely recognized to be negatively affecting coral reef ecosystems around the world, yet the long-term effects are difficult to predict. University of Miami (UM) scientists are using the geologic record of Caribbean corals to understand how reef ecosystems might respond to climate change expected for this century. The findings are published in the current issue of the journal Geology. The Pliocene epoch--more than 2.5 million years ago--can provide some insight into what ... read more |
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  Is Russia Ripe For A Twitter Revolution At 16.32 on January 24 a suicide bomber blew himself up at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport. The news was first broken on Twitter at 16.44 after which international news sites picked up on the story. Alm ... more | .. |
 Putin Puts Russia's Business Before Human Rights In Belarus Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin tactfully avoided discussion of recent human rights abuses in Belarus during his visit to Minsk this week, choosing instead to strengthen Russia's ties with its ... more | .. |
  Arctic Ozone Loss Recent observations from satellites and ground stations suggest that atmospheric ozone levels for March in the Arctic were approaching the lowest levels in the modern instrumental era. What those re ... more | .. |
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  Scientists Have New Measure For Species Threat A new index has been developed to help conservationists better understand how close species are to extinction. The index, developed by a team of Australian researchers from the University of Adelaid ... more | .. |
  Russia Urges Japan To Stop Radioactive Dumping Into Pacific Russia hopes that Japan will disclose full information about the situation at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant and will stop dumping radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, the Foreign M ... more | .. |
  Sand Drift Explained The sand along the south-western coastal rim of Norway has drifted for more than 9000 calendar years. This was triggered by sea-level changes and human activities, new research has found. Rese ... more | .. |
  Climate Change Poses Major Risks For Unprepared Cities Cities worldwide are failing to take necessary steps to protect residents from the likely impacts of climate change, even though billions of urban dwellers are vulnerable to heat waves, sea level ri ... more |
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Flexible electronics reshape intelligent robot design
From Quantum Physics to Coastal Resilience Brad Bartz to Present Who Turned the Power Back On at AltaSea
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 Syrian President Plays For Time - And Wins The fighting in Libya has dominated the headlines, largely overshadowing the violent protests in Syria. But President Bashar Assad's dismissal of his government on March 29 thrust Syria and its trou ... more | .. |
  Japan minister visits stricken nuclear plant Japan's industry minister on Saturday met workers battling to cool overheating reactors and plug radioactive leaks in the first government visit to the country's tsunami-crippled nuclear plant. ... more | .. |
 Berlusconi says migrant plan worked despite new arrivals Europe will have to pull its weight over immigration in the face of a "human tsunami phenomenon," Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Saturday during a visit to Lampedusa. ... more | .. |
  Giffords attack focuses head injury debate Three months ago in Arizona, a gunman's bullet struck U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., in the head, passing through her brain just over her left eye. ... more |
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 Brazil says anti-dam protests unjustified Brazil has rejected as unjustified international lobbying against the start of work on a giant Amazonian dam the country argues is vital for its future energy security. ... more | .. |
  Slash-and-burn threatens African forests Farming of crops like cocoa, cassava and oil palm has resulted in widespread deforestation and degradation of West Africa's tropical forest area, a study says. ... more | .. |
Japan's nuclear refugees defy warnings and go home Residents of towns surrounding a crippled nuclear plant are regularly returning home, an official said Saturday, defying health warnings as the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl drags on. ... more | .. |
  EU declares war on plastic litter in Mediterranean EU Environment Commissioner Janez Potocnik on Friday declared war on marine litter fouling the Mediterranean, calling for continental mobilisation including a possible ban on plastic bags. ... more |
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US says new nuclear deal should include China, accuses Beijing of secret tests
SpaceX shifts focus from Mars to Moon, Musk says
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Lost cash pours into police in quake-hit Japan Hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of Japanese yen found in towns and villages destroyed by a huge earthquake and tsunami have been handed in since the March 11 disaster, police said Saturday. ... more | .. |
Disabled Japanese struggle in disaster aftermath Sachiko Miura had no warning before a huge tsunami slammed into the small Japanese fishing village where she has lived all her life - because she could not hear the sirens. ... more | .. |
 3-D map of Philippines to help combat disasters President Benigno Aquino said Friday he plans to have a 3-D map of the Philippine archipelago created as part of an effort to guard against disasters. ... more | .. |
  Clinton urges China to free activists US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday urged China to free dozens of government critics rounded up this year including a prominent artist and said Beijing's rights record was worsening. ... more |
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  Four dead as new tremor hits Japan disaster zone A powerful aftershock rocked Japan's tsunami disaster zone, killing at least four and triggering new concerns over nuclear power plants in a region still grappling with an atomic emergency. ... more | .. |
  Water cut off in Abidjan's 'human tragedy': UN Water supplies have been entirely cut off in Abidjan for four days with Ivory Coast's main city locked in a human tragedy, a UN aid official there told AFP on Friday. ... more | .. |
 Rich, poor nations feud at UN climate talks Rich and poor nations agreed Friday on a roadmap for UN climate talks this year, but only after long-running feuds flared over a wide range of actions they must take to combat global warming. ... more | .. |
 Climate Beliefs Shift With Weather Social scientists are struggling with a perplexing earth-science question: as the power of evidence showing manmade global warming is rising, why do opinion polls suggest public belief in the findin ... more |
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The Race Is On: Artemis, China and Musk Turn the Moon Into the Next Strategic High Ground
First Crewed Moon Flyby In 54 Years: Artemis II
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 Precedent-Setting Evidence Of The Benefits Of Biodiversity Frequent reports of accelerating species losses invariably raise questions about why such losses matter and why we should work to conserve biodiversity. Biologists have traditionally responded ... more | .. |
 New Device Promises Safer Way To Deliver Powerful Drugs A new drug delivery device designed and constructed by Jie Chen, Thomas Cesario and Peter Rentzepis promises to unlock the potential of photosensitive chemicals to kill drug-resistant infections and ... more | .. |
 Third Dimension Of Specific Cell Cultivation At Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), researchers of the DFG Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN) succeeded in specifically cultivating cells on three-dimensional structures. The fascina ... more | .. |
  Latin American Working To Rejuvenate Crop Collections Crop specialists in Central America have announced that a major rescue effort is underway in one of the heartlands of ancient agriculture to regenerate thousands of unique varieties of coffee, tomat ... more |
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 Number Of Days Of Rain In Iberian Peninsula Has Increased Since 1903 A research team, led by the University of Extremadura, has for the first time analysed the frequency of rainfall over the whole of the Iberian Peninsula from 1903 to 2003. The results show that the ... more | .. |
 Danube Will Solve Hungary's Environmental Disaster The high-waters of the Danube River will neutralize the impact of Hungary's toxic waste spill, ecologists from Moscow, Chisinau and Kiev agreed on Thursday during a RIA Novosti video conference. ... more | .. |
 Low Fertilizer Use Drives Deforestation In West Africa Low-input farming for cocoa, cassava and oil palm has resulted in widespread deforestation and degredation of West Africa's tropical forest area, according to a new study by researchers at the Inter ... more | .. |
 Fish Farm Waste Can Drift To Distant Shores Concentrated waste plumes from fish farms could travel significant distances to reach coastlines, according to a study to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Environmental Fluid Mechani ... more |
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