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Higher density means world forests are capturing more carbonNew York NY (SPX) Jun 08, 2011 Forests in many regions are becoming larger carbon sinks thanks to higher density, U.S. and European researchers say in a new report. In Europe and North America, increased density significantly raised carbon storage despite little or no expansion of forest area, according to the study, led by Aapo Rautiainen of the University of Helsinki, Finland, and published in the online, open-access journal PLoS One. Even in the South American nations studied, more density helped maintain regional carbon lev ... read more |
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  Stanford climate scientists forecast permanently hotter summers The tropics and much of the Northern Hemisphere are likely to experience an irreversible rise in summer temperatures within the next 20 to 60 years if atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations conti ... more | .. |
  First-of-its-kind fluorescence map offers a new view of the world's land plants Scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., have produced groundbreaking global maps of land plant fluorescence, a difficult-to-detect reddish glow that leaves emit as a by ... more | .. |
  Floods kill 13 as heavy rains pound Haiti Torrential rains lashed Haiti on Tuesday, flooding shanty towns, swamping the squalid camps erected after a 2010 earthquake and killing at least 13 people, officials said. ... more | .. |
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  Japan to report nuclear 'melt-throughs' to UN Japan in a report prepared for the UN nuclear watchdog on Tuesday said for the first time that fuel in its crippled Fukushima plant may have melted through three reactor core vessels. ... more | .. |
 Chile volcano ash disrupts regional air travel A vast cloud of ash spewing from a Chilean volcano forced dozens of flights to be canceled Tuesday across South America, while mud and rain mixed with ash poured down on the resort areas in the region. ... more | .. |
 Bangladesh creates anti-poaching police force Bangladesh is set to launch a new police force to protect wildlife in response to a sharp rise in poaching and exotic animal smuggling, the government's chief conservationist said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Viruses are 'new normal' for honey bees: study California scientists said Tuesday they have identified four new viruses in healthy honey bee colonies, a finding that could help solve the mystery of mass bee die-offs in some parts of the world. ... more |
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New AI process boosts material property analysis through machine learning
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 New malaria protein structure upends theory of how cells grow and move Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have overturned conventional wisdom on how cell movement across all species is controlled, solving the structure of a protein that cuts power to ... more | .. |
 Deciding to stay or go is a deep-seated brain function Birds do it. Bees do it. Even little kids picking strawberries do it. Every creature that forages for food decides at some point that the food source they're working on is no richer than the rest of ... more | .. |
 Managing forests requires a bird's-eye view Managers of northern Michigan forests may not see the birds for the trees - or at least are in danger of losing sight of songbird neighborhoods when looking out for timber harvests. In a novel ... more | .. |
  From seawater to freshwater with a nanotechnology filter In this month's Physics World, Jason Reese, Weir Professor of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics at the University of Strathclyde, describes the role that carbon nanotubes (CNTs) could play in the d ... more |
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 Freshwater algae mystery solved The pristine state of unpolluted waterways may be their downfall, according to research results published in a paper this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. A species of freshwa ... more | .. |
 Miscanthus adapts An article in the current issue of Global Change Biology Bioenergy finds that natural populations of Miscanthus are promising candidates as second-generation energy sources because they have genetic ... more | .. |
 Jellyfish blooms shunt food energy from fish to bacteria A new study by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) shows that jellyfish are more than a nuisance to bathers and boaters, drastically altering marine food webs by shunting ... more | .. |
 Progress too slow on saving tropical forests: report All but seven percent of the world's tropical forests are "managed poorly or not at all" despite efforts to boost sustainability, according to a major report released Tuesday. ... more |
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European Response to Escalating Space Security Crisis
BlackSky to deliver advanced Gen-3 tactical ISR capabilities to international customer
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  Deal for EU governments to tax truckers for pollution, noise European governments will be able to hit hauliers for air and noise pollution costs after a deal struck in the European Parliament on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Eight out of 10 countries using mobile health: WHO Eight in 10 countries are using mobile phone technology to improve health services, from free emergency calls to appointment reminders, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Kazakhstan deports Uighur back to China: official Kazakhstan has sent back to China an ethnic Uighur who fled the country's restive Xinjiang region following riots, raising fears that he may be imprisoned or tortured. ... more | .. |
  Huge Arizona forest fire prompts evacuations A huge forest fire in the southwestern US state of Arizona has destroyed around 94,000 hectares (230,000 acres) of forest, and forced some 2,500 people in rural communities to evacuate as firefighters battled the blaze. ... more |
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 Belarus ready to sell top potash firm: report Cash-strapped Belarus is negotiating the sale of its most prized asset, the potash producer Belaruskali, under the terms of a loan agreed this month with Russia, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Schools shut in two Chinese towns after toxic leak Authorities have closed schools in two towns in China after industrial waste contaminated the water supply for 200,000 residents, officials and state media said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
Ancient farmers chose rice attributes Farmers in China 10,000 years ago were early pioneers of genetic breeding, developing practices still used today to boost agricultural yields, researchers say. ... more | .. |
  UN summit to set treatment target for AIDS sufferers A UN AIDS summit starting Wednesday must set key figures on how many people will get special treatment to hold back the disease which has killed nearly 30 million people in the past three decades. ... more |
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Dubai looks to bag top spot as tea goes green Exotic and organic teas are wooing tea drinkers and challenging traditional black tea's dominance as never before, tea industry experts say, as a tea factory in Dubai bids to become the world's largest. ... more | .. |
 Japan doubles plant radiation leak estimate Japan has more than doubled its initial estimate of radiation released from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in the week after the March 11 tsunami, ahead of the launch of an official probe Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Arctic access set to diminish by land but improve by sea Global warming over the next 40 years will cut through Arctic transportation networks like a double-edged sword, limiting access in certain areas and vastly increasing it in others, a new UCLA study ... more | .. |
 New report highlights diversity and value of Alaska's coastal forests A new report published by the USDA Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station presents summaries of current southeast and south-central Alaska forest topics, ranging from carbon and forest ... more |
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 Climate projections don't accurately reflect soil carbon release A new study concludes that models may be predicting releases of atmospheric carbon dioxide that are either too high or too low, depending on the region, because they don't adequately reflect variabl ... more | .. |
 BGI Sequences Genome of the Deadly E. Coli in Germany and Reveals New Super-Toxic Strain The recent outbreak of an E. coli infection in Germany has resulted in serious concerns about the potential appearance of a new deadly strain of bacteria. In response to this situation, and immediat ... more | .. |
 New map reveals giant fjords beneath East Antarctic ice sheet Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have used ice-penetrating radar to create the first high- resolution topographic map of one of the last uncharted regions of Earth, the Aurora Subglacial ... more | .. |
 Support for local community programs key to climate change response in Arctic Johnson's research has taken her to Kanngiqtugaapik (Clyde River) on Baffin Island, Nunavut. There, she has been finding out how Inuit communities are adapting to climate change, and what contributi ... more |
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