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Venice to suffer fewer storm surgesVenice, Italy (SPX) Jun 17, 2011 the City of Dreams - may have one less nightmare to deal with following a finding that the frequency of extreme storm surge events generated by Adriatic Sea tempests and impacting Venice could fall by about 30 per cent by 2100. A team of international scientists led by CSIRO's Dr Alberto Troccoli studied atmospheric circulation in the Mediterranean region to assess climate impacts through changes in storm surge frequency in Venice - a World Heritage-listed city built on 117 small islands and consi ... read more |
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  Integrating agriculture and forestry in the landscape is key to REDD Evidence from benchmark sites across the tropics is proving that an integrated, multifunctional approach that allows for land-use sharing in agriculture, forests and other functions can achieve good ... more | .. |
  Multi-paddock grazing is superior to continuous grazing A long-term study verifies multi-paddock grazing improves vegetation, soil health and animal production relative to continuous grazing in large-scale ranches, according to Texas AgriLife Research sc ... more | .. |
 Using Recycled Cardboard in Food Packaging Risks Contaminating Food with Mineral Oils Harmful mineral oils from the printing inks used on cardboard can migrate into food if recycled cardboard is used for food packaging. It may contaminate food even if the recycled cardboard is used f ... more | .. |
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 Unique Gene Combinations Control Tropical Maize Response to Day Lengths Tropical maize proves to be a valuable genetic resource, containing genetics not found in USA Corn Belt maize. Most tropical maize varieties respond to the long summer day lengths that occur in U.S. ... more | .. |
 Dawn of agriculture took toll on health When populations around the globe started turning to agriculture around 10,000 years ago, regardless of their locations and type of crops, a similar trend occurred: The height and health of the peop ... more | .. |
  What makes a plant a plant? Although scientists have been able to sequence the genomes of many organisms, they still lack a context for associating the proteins encoded in genes with specific biological processes. To bet ... more | .. |
 New study supports Darwin's hypothesis on competition between species A new study provides support for Darwin's hypothesis that the struggle for existence is stronger between more closely related species than those distantly related. While ecologists generally accept ... more |
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Oxford team unveils air-powered robots that synchronize without electronics
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  Mississippi river flooding predicted to cause biggest dead zone ever recorded The Gulf of Mexico's hypoxic zone is predicted to be the largest ever recorded due to extreme flooding of the Mississippi River this spring, according to an annual forecast by a team of NOAA-support ... more | .. |
  Bones give peek at key evolutionary period The remains of a child from about 108,000 years ago should shed light on a key period in human evolution, a University of Pennsylvania archaeologist said. ... more | .. |
  Sudan army 'to fight by all means' in border state The Sudanese army will continue to fight by all available means to stop the rebellion in South Kordofan, its spokesman said on Thursday, as concern grew over the humanitarian impact of the conflict. ... more | .. |
  Myanmar rebels eye China mediation in clashes Myanmar ethnic minority rebels on Thursday appealed for China to help end a deadly standoff with government troops as Beijing called for calm after people fled across the countries' shared border. ... more |
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 Landless workers protest Amazon killings Poor workers in Brazil's Amazon cut a key road through the vast forest Thursday to protest insecurity in the wake of recent murders of activists trying to preserve the region from illegal ranchers and loggers. ... more | .. |
  Geologist: Chile volcano should continue to diminish Thirteen days since it erupted, the Chilean volcano Puyehue is stable and its activity should diminish further in the coming weeks, the director of the Chile's National Service of Geology and Mining said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Rio eco-summit 'top priority' for UN A summit on sustainable development to be hosted next year in Rio, 20 years after the UN Earth Summit in the same city, will be a "top priority" for the UN, the world body's chief said Thursday. ... more | .. |
Australia flights resume but ash affects N.Zealand Flights across Australia began returning to normal Thursday after days of travel chaos from the Chile ash cloud, but some services to New Zealand remained grounded. ... more |
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 'Unicorn' antelope leaps back from near-extinction The Arabian oryx, a desert antelope that may have sparked the legend of the unicorn, has bounced back after being hunted almost to oblivion, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Blind China activist beaten unconscious: wife A blind Chinese activist who exposed abuses in Beijing's population control policy was beaten unconscious by dozens of men led by a communist party official, his wife said in a letter released Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Quake-hit N.Z. cathedrals face wrecking ball Christchurch's Anglican and Catholic cathedrals may have to be demolished after sustaining further damage in the latest earthquake to rock the New Zealand city, church officials said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Budget battle at cash-strapped UN climate forum Administrators tasked with running the UN's talks on climate change have put out the begging bowl to help implement deals that in theory could reach a hundred billion dollars a year. ... more |
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Abyei clashes 'resume' on Sudan's embattled border Clashes erupted in Abyei Wednesday between north and south Sudanese troops, the southern army said, just days after a deal to demilitarise the disputed area, and as Khartoum stepped up air strikes in neighbouring South Kordofan. ... more | .. |
China detains 'rumour-monger' over riots Police in southern China have announced they have detained a person suspected of spreading rumours on the Internet that triggered violent clashes and a major security clampdown. ... more | .. |
 What Will Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Mean for Barrier Islands A new survey of barrier islands published earlier this spring offers the most thorough assessment to date of the thousands of small islands that hug the coasts of the world's landmasses. The study, ... more | .. |
 New study of storm generation could improve rainfall prediction in West Africa A new study of how storms are generated could improve rainfall prediction in dry regions of Africa, where drought and short growing seasons are common. A team of scientists from the UK, France ... more |
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Bezos's Blue Origin postpones rocket launch over weather
SpaceX launches 29 satellites after fireball spotted in the sky
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 Stunning NASA imagery and movie released of a now gone Hurricane Adrian Some satellite images are striking and memorable, while others are just interesting. On June 10, NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Hurricane Adrian from space and sent a stunning image to the science ... more | .. |
  Chilean Volcano Plume Moving Around the World Since its eruption in early June, several NASA satellites have captured images of the ash plume from the eruption of the Chilean Volcano called Puyehue-Cordon Caulle and have tracked it around the w ... more | .. |
  SDO Detects Superfast Solar Waves Moving At 2,000 Km Per Second Scientists using the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument on board NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), have detected quasi-periodic waves in the low solar corona that travel at speeds ... more | .. |
 Refuse illegal timber says Indonesia Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has urged foreign countries not to accept illegal timber from his country. ... more |
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 Quake-weary Christchurch residents ponder leaving Simon Bourke moved into his dream house in New Zealand's Christchurch four years ago, but now says: "I'll sell it to you for a dollar, and chuck in the wife as well. ... more | .. |
  Japan's mega-quake struck in small zone of fault: study The deadly 9.0-magnitude quake that struck off northeastern Japan on March 11 ruptured a relatively small part of a notorious fault that straddles the Pacific seabed, Japanese scientists reported on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Nepal marks becoming land mine-free A huge controlled explosion marked the end of Nepal's deadly land mine areas and the beginning of it as Asia's second land mine-free country alongside China. ... more | .. |
 Faced with unrest, wary China flexes muscle China has put on a display of force to quell recent violent bouts of unrest - events that analysts say highlight resentment towards an unresponsive government grappling with economic and social strife. ... more |
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