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Sea levels will continue to rise for 500 yearsCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Oct 18, 2011 Rising sea levels in the coming centuries is perhaps one of the most catastrophic consequences of rising temperatures. Massive economic costs, social consequences and forced migrations could result from global warming. But how frightening of times are we facing? Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute are part of a team that has calculated the long-term outlook for rising sea levels in relation to the emission of greenhouse gases and pollution of the atmosphere using climate models. The results ... read more |
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 US rivers and streams saturated with carbon Rivers and streams in the United States are releasing enough carbon into the atmosphere to fuel 3.4 million car trips to the moon, according to Yale researchers in Nature Geoscience. Their findings ... more | .. |
  P-T Extinction Hit Oceans Harder than Land While the cause of the mass extinction that occurred between the Permian and Triassic periods is still uncertain, two University of Rhode Island researchers collected data that show that terrestrial ... more | .. |
  A team for an emergency Earthquakes, tsunamies, hurricanes - natural disasters always catch us by surprise, no matter how many early-warning systems are in place. This makes it all the more important for rescue teams to ge ... more | .. |
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  Intruder virus detected raise the alarm When a thief breaks into a bank vault, sensors are activated and the alarm is raised. Cells have their own early-warning system for intruders, and scientists at the European Molecular Biology Labora ... more | .. |
  CryoSat rocking and rolling ESA's ice satellite is rolling left and right in orbit to help it continue its precise measurements of the vast ice sheets that blanket Greenland and Antarctica. Since its launch 18 months ago, Cryo ... more | .. |
  NASA Readies New Type of Earth-Observing Satellite for Launch NASA is planning an Oct. 27 launch of the first Earth-observing satellite to measure both global climate changes and key weather variables. The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Sate ... more | .. |
 NASA, Japan Release Improved Topographic Map of Earth NASA and Japan released a significantly improved version of the most complete digital topographic map of Earth on Monday, produced with detailed measurements from NASA's Terra spacecraft. The ... more |
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Oxford team unveils air-powered robots that synchronize without electronics
Teaching robots to map large environments
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  Southern Africian farmers using fertilizer trees to improve food security On a continent battered by weather extremes, famine and record food prices, new research from the World Agroforestry Centre documents an exciting new trend in which hundreds of thousands of poor far ... more | .. |
  Russian Ship Finds Tsunami Debris where Scientists Predicted Ever since the great Japan tsunami on March 11 washed millions of tons of debris into the Pacific, scientists at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, have been t ... more | .. |
  Tuvalu grapples with drought The drought in the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, which declared a state of emergency this month because of a severe shortage of fresh water, is likely to last until January, the government says. ... more | .. |
 S Africa to release report on Iraq's oil-for-food South Africa will soon release a report into alleged corruption in the now-defunct UN oil-for-food programme in Iraq, which reportedly implicates senior ruling party officials, the presidency said on Tuesday. ... more |
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  Car bomb rocks Mogadishu during Kenyan ministers visit A car bomb exploded in Mogadishu Tuesday near a meeting involving two Kenyan ministers after Shebab rebels promised Nairobi all-out retaliation for its unprecedented military operation inside Somalia. ... more | .. |
 Central America toll from rains climbs above 90 More than 90 people were counted dead Tuesday from heavy rains pounding Central America after Guatemala reported more people swept away by raging floodwaters and Costa Rica found four drowned. ... more | .. |
 S.Africa's new climate policy to curb industry emissions A new South African climate change policy curbing industry emissions will give the country leverage when it hosts the next round of global climate talks, the environment minister said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  EU court bans stem cell patents if embryo destroyed Europe's top court banned on Tuesday patents of stem cells when their extraction causes the destruction of a human embryo, a ruling that could have repercussions on medical research. ... more |
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New satellite operations centre planned for Germany to support EU constellation
N. Korea warns of more 'offensive action' after latest missile launch
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  Sudden winter weather causes Bulgarian mayhem A sudden onset of harsh winter conditions caused transport chaos in Bulgaria on Tuesday, with one man freezing to death, eight people missing in mountains, 600 villages without power and schools closed. ... more | .. |
  Swiss university creates cardiac issues detector Swiss technological university EPFL said Tuesday it created an electronic system that detects cardiac problems instantly and passes on the data through a mobile phone to medical personnel. ... more | .. |
Chinese man charged in theft of US trade secrets The United States charged a Chinese scientist Tuesday with "economic espionage" for stealing trade secrets of major US agribusiness firms to benefit China. ... more | .. |
  Bolivian native protest march nears La Paz Hundreds of Bolivian Indians are winding up a weeks-long march against government plans to destroy part of an Amazon nature refuge to build a highway, and now are just one day's walk from La Paz, the group's leaders said Tuesday. ... more |
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  Tibetan nun self-immolates in China: rights groups A Buddhist nun has died after setting herself on fire in southwest China, becoming the first woman and the ninth Tibetan in the area to self-immolate to protest perceived repression, rights groups said. ... more | .. |
Wary Bangkok bolsters flood barriers Thai troops raced Tuesday to pile more than a million sandbags onto floodwalls on the edge of Bangkok due to renewed concern that the defences might not hold back the worst inundation in decades. ... more | .. |
China Communist Party meeting ends: Xinhua China's most senior Communist Party members on Tuesday ended their last annual meeting ahead of a generational change in leadership next year, the official Xinhua news agency said in a brief dispatch. ... more | .. |
 Far more bluefin sold than reported caught: report More than twice as many tonnes of Atlantic bluefin tuna were sold last year compared with official catch records for this threatened species, according to a report released on Tuesday. ... more |
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Closest-ever view of planet-forming disk captured around distant star
AI-developed controller directs satellite in pioneering in-orbit maneuver
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 Fukushima city begins decontamination of homes Fukushima City began Tuesday its first decontamination of private properties, seven months after the worst atomic accident since Chernobyl spread radioactive materials over eastern Japan. ... more | .. |
Famine-hit Somalis struggle as aid efforts fall short Trapped in famine-hit Afgoye, a rag-hut city ruled by Islamist Shebab rebels and the world's largest camp for displaced people, Saedo Saleh knew she had to escape when her baby son fell sick. ... more | .. |
  More oil spills from stricken New Zealand ship Fresh oil leaked from a container ship stuck on a New Zealand reef Tuesday, as bad weather halted both salvage work on the vessel and a massive pollution clean up on the coast. ... more | .. |
Kenyan forces advance on strategic Somali rebel bases Kenyan troops advanced towards a strategic rebel-held Somali town on Tuesday as heavy air strikes battered Shebab militant positions, army officials said. ... more |
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 T rex was bigger and grew faster than previously thought In a new study just published in the journal PLoS One, a team of scientists led by Professor John R. Hutchinson of The Royal Veterinary College, London, and Peter Makovicky, PhD, curator of dinosaur ... more | .. |
 Method of studying roots rarely used in wetlands improves ecosystem research A method of monitoring roots rarely used in wetlands will help Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers effectively study the response of a high-carbon ecosystem to elevated temperatures and levels ... more | .. |
 Reversing smoke-induced damage and disease in the lung By studying mice exposed to tobacco smoke for a period of months, researchers have new insight into how emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) develops. In the October 14th issue ... more | .. |
  Children prefer cooperation Recent studies have shown that chimpanzees possess many of the cognitive prerequisites necessary for humanlike collaboration. Cognitive abilities, however, might not be all that differs between chim ... more |
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