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Urban heat island effect is a small part of global warmingStanford CA (SPX) Oct 24, 2011 Cities release more heat to the atmosphere than the rural vegetated areas around them, but how much influence these urban "heat islands" have on global warming has been a matter of debate. Now a study by Stanford researchers has quantified the contribution of the heat islands for the first time, showing that it is modest compared with what greenhouse gases contribute to global warming. "Between 2 and 4 percent of the gross global warming since the Industrial Revolution may be due to urban heat isl ... read more |
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  New bacteria toxins against resistant insect pests Toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis bacteria (Bt toxins) are used in organic and conventional farming to manage pest insects. Sprayed as pesticides or produced in genetically modified plants, Bt toxi ... more | .. |
  Explanation for Glowing Seas Suggested It has long been known that distinctive blue flashes--a type of bioluminescence--that are visible at night in some marine environments are caused by tiny, unicellular plankton known as dinoflagellat ... more | .. |
  Desperate hunt for survivors after Turkey quake carnage Rescuers scrambled through the rubble in a desperate search on Monday for survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 264 people in Turkey as residents fled the scenes of devastation. ... more | .. |
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 8.5% carbon cut needed by 2020 for Copenhagen goal: study Meeting the target for global warming enshrined in the 2009 Copenhagen Accord will require carbon emissions to decline by more than eight percent by 2020 compared to 2010 and then continue their fall, a study said on Sunday. ... more | .. |
  Kirchner celebrates re-election landslide in Argentina President Cristina Kirchner celebrated a landslide re-election victory in Argentine elections Monday, on the back of booming economic growth and sympathy a year after the death of her husband. ... more | .. |
  Radiation hotspot near Tokyo linked to Fukushima: officials Radiation levels as high as those in the evacuation zone around Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant have been detected in a Tokyo suburb, and are likely linked to the disaster, officials said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Bangkok set for unstoppable floodwaters Millions of people in the Thai capital nervously prepared for advancing and seemingly unstoppable floodwaters on Monday after residents in areas deemed most at threat were urged to leave. ... more |
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'No doubt' Canadian firm will be first to extract deep sea minerals: CEO
Tabletop particle blaster: How tiny nozzles and lasers could replace giant accelerators
Set it and forget it: Autonomous structures can be programmed to jump days in advance | .. |
  China's local election candidates campaign online When Yao Bo announced online that he was running in China's local elections, he joined dozens of candidates using the Internet to campaign for votes - a phenomenon that has spooked authorities. ... more | .. |
 Mongol herder killed in China land dispute: rights group A Chinese truck driver has killed an ethnic Mongol herder who was trying to protect his grazing land, a rights group said, five months after a similar incident sparked protests in Inner Mongolia. ... more | .. |
 Study Reveals Diversity of Life in Soils Microscopic animals that live in soils are as diverse in the tropical forests of Costa Rica as they are in the arid grasslands of Kenya, or the tundra and boreal forests of Alaska and Sweden. That c ... more | .. |
 From red planet to deep blue sea: Astronomer Squyres becomes NASA aquanaut Cornell professor of astronomy Steven Squyres, the lead scientist for NASA's Rover mission to Mars, has just taken the plunge as a NASA aquanaut. Cornell's Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy is on ... more |
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  Ozone Depletion a Bigger Deal Down Under The Earth's thinning ozone layer is synonymous with a singing and dancing seagull named Sid - at least it is in New Zealand and Australia. "This time of year there is a huge push to 'Slip, Slo ... more | .. |
  Manufacturing goes viral Using a simple, single-step process, engineers and scientists at the University of California at Berkeley have developed a technique to direct benign, filamentous viruses called M13 phages to serve ... more | .. |
 Study proves new technology kills bacteria Results from a comprehensive multi-site clinical trial demonstrated that the use of antimicrobial copper surfaces in intensive care unit rooms reduced the amount of bacteria in the rooms by 97 perce ... more | .. |
  Culture in humans and apes has the same evolutionary roots Culture is not a trait that is unique to humans. By studying orangutan populations, a team of researchers headed by anthropologist Michael Krutzen from the University of Zurich has demonstrated that ... more |
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Iran FM warns Europe against 'strategic mistake' at IAEA; Iran obtained 'sensitive' Israeli intel
DOD is investigating Hegseth's staffers over Houthi-strikes chats
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  First Ebola-like virus native to Europe discovered A team of international researchers has discovered a new Ebola-like virus - Lloviu virus - in bats from northern Spain. Lloviu virus is the first known filovirus native to Europe, they report in a s ... more | .. |
 West Nile Virus Transmission Linked with Land-Use Patterns and Super-spreaders After its initial appearance in New York in 1999, West Nile virus spread across the United States in just a few years and is now well established throughout North and South America. Both the mosquit ... more | .. |
 Etna volcano eruption forces airport closure Lava and ash spewing out of a crater of the giant Etna volcano in southern Italy forced the closure of nearby Catania airport, ANSA news agency said late Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Rice regrets shoe shopping amid Katrina disaster: book Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice regrets having gone shoe-shopping and out for a night at the theater while Hurricane Katrina ravaged the US Gulf coast, she wrote in excerpts of her memoir released Sunday. ... more |
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 Erdogan visits Turkish quake zone as first bodies recovered Turkey's Prime Minister flew to eastern Turkey Sunday to see for himself the devastation wrought by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that has killed more than 70 people. ... more | .. |
 Thai govt to boost food supply in flood-braced Bangkok The Thai government said Sunday it would set up a distribution centre in Bangkok to help replenish empty supermarket shelves as residents readied for floods that have so far largely spared the capital. ... more | .. |
 Myanmar flash floods kill more than 100: official More than 100 people were killed in flash floods caused by heavy storms in central Myanmar this week, an official in the military-dominated country said on Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong mothers march against mainland babies More than 1000 protesters, including pregnant mothers, marched in Hong Kong Sunday opposing the growing number of mainland Chinese women coming to the city to give birth, organisers said. ... more |
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Trump-Musk showdown threatens US space plans
Japanese company aborts Moon mission after assumed crash-landing
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 Floods major test for Thailand's novice PM Thailand's worst floods in decades are a baptism of fire for Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, observers say, as the political novice struggles to get a grip on a disaster that could define her career. ... more | .. |
 Crowded Earth: how many is too many Already straining to host seven billion souls, Earth is set to teem with billions more, and only a revolution in the use of resources can avert an environmental crunch, experts say. ... more | .. |
 Bangkok bolsters river defences in flood battle Thai troops on Sunday reinforced vulnerable barriers along Bangkok's Chao Phraya river after a sudden rise in the water level set back efforts to contain the worst floods in decades. ... more | .. |
 Chinese wine students are boon for Bordeaux One of France's oldest oenology schools, La Tour Blanche, is fighting falling enrolment through a tie-up with a Beijing wine school, the latest in a string of Bordeaux institutes to look East for their future. ... more |
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 WHO warns of disease risk in flood-hit Thailand Thailand's hundreds of thousands of flood victims are at risk of water-borne diseases and infections, the World Health Organisation said Saturday, though no major outbreaks have been reported yet. ... more | .. |
Wall collapses at Pompei after flash storms Part of an ancient Roman wall has collapsed at the archaeological site of Pompei in southern Italy following flash floods and storms across the country, a spokeswoman said Saturday. ... more | .. |
  Glaciers in China shrinking with warming Global warming is causing glaciers in southwest China, the major source of the country's largest rivers, to melt faster than ever, researchers said. ... more | .. |
 French PM witnesses 'desolate' Japan tsunami zone French Prime Minister Francois Fillon visited the tsunami-ravaged Japanese port city of Ishinomaki Saturday, saying the disaster had left "wounds which will take a long time to heal". ... more |
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