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Oceans played critical role in ancient global coolingTroy NY (SPX) Jun 01, 2011 Thirty-eight million years ago, tropical jungles thrived in what are now the cornfields of the American Midwest and furry marsupials wandered temperate forests in what is now the frozen Antarctic. The temperature differences of that era, known as the late Eocene, between the equator and Antarctica were only half of what they are today. A debate has long been raging in the scientific community on what changes in our global climate system led to such a major shift from the more tropical, greenhouse ... read more |
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  5 new hot spots where medicine and technology will converge Medicine and technology are converging in patient care at a faster pace than most people realize. Space age advancements from point-of-care health technologies like telemedicine to medical robots pe ... more | .. |
  Japan Earthquake Appears to Increase Quake Risk Elsewhere in the Country Japan's recent magnitude 9.0 earthquake, which triggered a devastating tsunami, relieved stress along part of the quake fault but also has contributed to the build up of stress in other areas, putti ... more | .. |
  Experts create first legal roadmap to tackle local ocean acidification hotspots Coastal communities hard hit by ocean acidification hotspots have more options than they may realize, says an interdisciplinary team of science and legal experts. In a paper published in the j ... more | .. |
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  High risk of Parkinson's disease for people exposed to pesticides near workplace In April 2009, researchers at UCLA announced they had discovered a link between Parkinson's disease and two chemicals commonly sprayed on crops to fight pests. That epidemiological study didn' ... more | .. |
  Two Greenland Glaciers Lose Enough Ice To Fill Lake Erie A new study aimed at refining the way scientists measure ice loss in Greenland is providing a "high-definition picture" of climate-caused changes on the island. And the picture isn't pretty. In the ... more | .. |
 Human impacts of rising oceans will extend well beyond coasts Identifying the human impact of rising sea levels is far more complex than just looking at coastal cities on a map. Rather, estimates that are based on current, static population data can greatly mi ... more | .. |
 Tiny bubbles signal severe impacts to coral reefs worldwide A new study from University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science scientists Chris Langdon, Remy Okazaki and Nancy Muehllehner and colleagues from the Australian Institut ... 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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  Dogs in motion Zoologists of Jena University have presented the results of the most extensive study worldwide concerning the motion of dogs and demonstrate precise insights into their course of movement for the fi ... more | .. |
  When it comes to warm-up less is more for athletes University of Calgary Faculty of Kinesiology researcher Elias Tomaras says the idea came to him while watching track and field sprinters warm-up for a race. "If you watch sprinters, short dist ... more | .. |
 20 former world leaders discuss looming water crisis Twenty former heads of state, including former US president Bill Clinton, warned Tuesday of an impending "water crisis" and agreed to establish a panel that will tackle a worldwide leadership gap on the issue. ... more | .. |
  Mysterious bacterial outbreak in Europe Scientists in Europe are racing to locate the source of a bacterial outbreak that has killed at least 16 people, sickened hundreds more and disrupted food markets across the continent. ... more |
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  Arab revolts jolt Western intelligence The toppling of the pro-Western rulers of Egypt and Tunisia in the Arab Spring upheavals, and the prospect that other authoritarian regimes in the Middle East may fall, has alarmed Western intelligence agencies that have relied on their help in fighting terrorism. ... more | .. |
 Walker's World: Money and the Arab Spring The Group of Eight summit exposed not only the financial weakness of the old industrial powers when faced with the challenge of the Arab Spring but also the crisis in its Middle Eastern alliances that is forcing the United States to choose between its immediate interests and its values. ... more | .. |
 Egypt activists reject talks with ruling military Egyptian activists behind an uprising that toppled president Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday rejected talks with the ruling military junta, demanding an end to military trials of civilians prior to any dialogue. ... more | .. |
  Forest fragmentation threatens Europe, species: UN Fires, felling and agriculture are whittling Europe's forests down into isolated patches, threatening to speed up desertification and deplete wildlife, a UN report warned Tuesday. ... 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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 Weather forecast could predict cholera outbreaks: study Scientists are closing in on a forecast model that may soon be able to predict future cholera outbreaks based on increases in temperature and rainfall, according to a study published Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Hurricane season starting with high US, Caribbean risk The Atlantic hurricane season kicks off Wednesday with elevated threats to the United States and nations around the Caribbean, the latest forecasts show. ... more | .. |
 UN sees biodiversity treaty ratified by July 2012 A global treaty on the harvesting of genetic resources will probably be ratified by July 2012, the UN executive secretary on biological diversity said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  China clamps down on Mongolian protests Parts of China's Inner Mongolia region remain under tight security after the government announced it will put a Chinese miner on trial for allegedly killing a Mongolian man. ... more |
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 'Perfect storm' looms for world's food supplies: Oxfam Oxfam called on Tuesday for an overhaul of the world's food system, warning that in a couple of decades, millions more people would be gripped by hunger due to population growth and climate-hit harvests. ... more | .. |
 China vows to address Mongol grievances China vowed Tuesday to act to address problems that have sparked protests by ethnic Mongols while also warning of unspecified "overseas" forces fanning the unrest in Inner Mongolia. ... more | .. |
 TV, Internet harming protection of biodiversity: UN Young people's fascination with television, the Internet, video games and other electronic entertainment is making it more difficult to protect the world's biodiversity, a UN official warned Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 China says UN resolution on Syria unhelpful China voiced support on Tuesday for Syria's crackdown on pro-democracy protests and said a UN Security Council resolution on the nation was unlikely to ease tensions there. ... more |
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  Blast at Japan nuclear plant 'likely gas cylinder' An explosion was heard Tuesday at Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, but no rise in radiation levels nor any injuries were reported, the plant operator said. ... more | .. |
  China detains 74 in latest lead poisoning scandal Authorities in eastern China have detained 74 people and suspended work at hundreds of factories after a new lead poisoning scare once again highlighted the dark side of the country's economic boom. ... more | .. |
 Scientists warn of more quake danger in N.Z. New Zealand's earthquake-devastated Canterbury region faces an almost one-in-four chance of another powerful tremor in the next 12 months, government scientists said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Discrimination in China hinders AIDS fight When Meng Lin found out he was HIV-positive, he was forced to leave home, quit his job and change his name - the victim of intense discrimination experts say hinders China's fight against the disease. ... more |
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 Policing stops cheaters from dominating groups of cooperative bacteria For cooperation to persist in the often violently competitive realm of bacteria, cheaters must be kept in line. Two Indiana University Bloomington biologists have learned that in one bacterium, at l ... more | .. |
  Cities affect storms, but downwind areas can get the worst of it Urban areas modify thunderstorms that can eventually get stronger and more violent as they leave the cities and move to downwind areas, according to a Purdue University study. Using 10 years of data ... more | .. |
 Reindeer see a weird and wonderful world of ultraviolet light Researchers have discovered that the ultraviolet (UV) light that causes the temporary but painful condition of snow blindness in humans is life-saving for reindeer in the arctic. A BBSRC-funde ... more | .. |
 Biological Circuits for Synthetic Biology "If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own." . . . Wes "Scoop" Nisker. Taking a page from the book of San Francisco radio legend Scoop Nisker, biologists who find themselves dissa ... more |
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