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Reforestation's cooling influence a result of farmer's past choicesPalo Alto, CA (SPX) Aug 02, 2011 Decisions by farmers to plant on productive land with little snow enhances the potential for reforestation to counteract global warming, concludes new research from Carnegie's Julia Pongratz and Ken Caldeira. Previous research has led scientists and politicians to believe that regrowing forests on Northern lands that were cleared in order to grow crops would not decrease global warming. But these studies did not consider the importance of the choices made by farmers in the historical past. T ... read more |
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  NOAA's Draft Integrity Policy Applauded by International Scientific Organization Today's release of a draft scientific integrity policy by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has been applauded by the world's largest organization of Earth and space scienti ... more | .. |
  Geographic analysis offers new insight into coral disease spread In the last 30 years, more than 90 percent of the reef-building coral responsible for maintaining major marine habitats and providing a natural barrier against hurricanes in the Caribbean has disapp ... more | .. |
  Largest recorded tundra fire yields scientific surprises In 2007 the largest recorded tundra fire in the circumpolar arctic released approximately as much carbon into the atmosphere as the tundra has stored in the previous 50 years, say scientists in the ... more | .. |
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 Rainforest plant developed sonar dish to attract pollinating bats The researchers discovered that a rainforest vine, pollinated by bats, has evolved dish-shaped leaves with such conspicuous echoes that nectar-feeding bats can find its flowers twice as fast by echo ... more | .. |
  Strength in numbers New research sheds light on why, after 300,000 years of domination, European Neanderthals abruptly disappeared. Researchers from the University of Cambridge have discovered that modern humans coming ... more | .. |
  NASA Satellite Tracks Severity of African Drought Northeast Africa continues to reel from the effects of the worst drought to strike the region in decades. The arid conditions are contributing to famines that the U.S. Department of State says are a ... more | .. |
 Tropical Storm Muifa appears huge on NASA infrared imagery The width of an image from the AIRS instrument that flies on NASA's Aqua satellite is about 1700 km (1056 miles), and the clouds and thunderstorms associate with Tropical Storm Muifa take up that en ... more |
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  Are cancers newly evolved species Cancer patients may view their tumors as parasites taking over their bodies, but this is more than a metaphor for Peter Duesberg, a molecular and cell biology professor at the University of Californ ... more | .. |
 Hunting For Worms From Hell If you're on a quest for "worms from Hell," you have to be prepared for some tough going. You have to be an intrepid adventurer and a scientific risk-taker, someone with a high tolerance for discomf ... more | .. |
  Turkey's Supreme Military Council meets Turkey's Supreme Military Council began its annual four-day meetings Monday in disarray after the unprecedented mass resignations last week put the country's new military command structure in question. ... more | .. |
 Criticism of Syria grows, but no Libya-style raids ahead Syria faced a groundswell of international condemnation over its deadly crackdown on the city of Hama but NATO's chief on Monday ruled out a Libya-style intervention to halt the bloodshed. ... more |
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 Lobster mini-season reels in hunters despite dangers With their mouths watering, thousands of divers took to Florida's waters for the southern US state's annual 48-hour mini-season when lobster lovers can hunt for gourmet gold. ... more | .. |
  N. Korea storm, rains 'kill dozens': state media A storm and heavy rains in North Korea over the last two months have left dozens of people dead, injured or missing, while thousands more are homeless, state media said on Monday. ... more | .. |
 Iraq declares holiday as mercury soars A public holiday was declared Monday for Baghdad and southern Iraq as the mercury hit 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) at the start of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. ... more | .. |
  Record-breaking US drought in July: data July was a record-breaking dry month in parts of the United States, with 12 percent of the country under an "exceptional" drought causing crop losses and water shortages, authorities said Monday. ... more |
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Russia: Other nations ready to supply Iran with nukes; as US claims strikes 'devastated' program
Russian drone and missile barrage on Kyiv kills seven
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 Eugene strengthens to hurricane in Pacific Eugene gathered strength in the Pacific to become the fifth hurricane of the season Monday, even though it was destined to remain far from the coasts of the Mexico, the National Hurricane Center said. ... more | .. |
  South African soldiers battle rhino poachers in Kruger The soldiers sleep in tents, hidden from roaming lions by a blind, and protected by high-powered rifles that also ward off the even more dangerous threat of poachers. ... more | .. |
 ICRC boosts food aid to rebel-held Somali regions The International Committee of the Red Cross said Monday it had distributed food to 162,000 drought-stricken people in south and central Somalia, regions largely controlled by Islamist rebels. ... more | .. |
 Russian city reels from $3 million tornado damage: official A Russian town on the border with China was on Monday recovering from a rare tornado that killed a man and wreaked havoc that may cost the Far Eastern town up to $3 million, authorities said. ... more |
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  Taxi driver protests hit two Chinese cities Thousands of taxi drivers in China's eastern city of Hangzhou went on strike Monday over high petrol prices and traffic congestion, while drivers in Shanghai also protested over benefits. ... more | .. |
  Cows clock-in for monitored mealtimes Electronic ear tags are being used to provide an early warning system that will help farmers identify sick animals within a herd. The new system, being trialled by scientists at Newcastle Univ ... more | .. |
 UC Riverside chemists transform acids into bases Chemists at the University of California, Riverside have accomplished in the lab what until now was considered impossible: transform a family of compounds which are acids into bases. As our ch ... more |
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 Ongoing global biodiversity loss unstoppable with protected areas alone Continued reliance on a strategy of setting aside land and marine territories as "protected areas" is insufficient to stem global biodiversity loss, according to a comprehensive assessment published ... more | .. |
 Pacific Northwest trees struggle for water while standing in it Contrary to expectations, researchers have discovered that the conifers of the Pacific Northwest, some of the tallest trees in the world, face their greatest water stress during the region's eternal ... more | .. |
 Dissecting the genomes of crop plants to improve breeding potential Scientists on the Norwich Research Park, working with colleagues in China, have developed new techniques that will aid the application of genomics to breeding the improved varieties of crop needed t ... more | .. |
 Hummingbirds catch flying bugs with the help of fast-closing beaks The shape of a hummingbird's beak allows for a "controlled elastic snap" that allows it to snatch up flying insects in a mere fraction of a second -with greater speed and power than could be achieve ... more |
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 How bats stay on target despite the clutter In a paper published this week in Science, researchers at Brown University and from the Republic of Georgia have learned how bats can home in on a target, while nearly instantaneously taking account ... more | .. |
  Pope urges end to 'indifference' over Somalia famine The pope on Sunday urged the world not to be "indifferent" to the Horn of Africa famine, as the African Union prepares to host a donors conference for victims on August 9. ... more | .. |
 New study outlines economic and environmental benefits to reducing nitrogen pollution A new study co-authored by Columbia Engineering professor Kartik Chandran and recently published in the journal, Environmental Science and Technology, shows that reducing nitrogen pollution generate ... more | .. |
 An Elusive prey Escape responses are some of the most studied behaviors by neurobiologists who want to understand how the brain processes sensory information. The ability to evade predators plays a vital role in th ... more |
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