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Survey finds public support for geoengineering researchWashington DC (SPX) Oct 26, 2011 Research on geoengineering appears to have broad public support, as a new, internationally-representative survey revealed that 72 per cent of respondents approved research into the climate-manipulating technique. The study, published in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters, is the first international survey on public perception of geoengineering and solar radiation management (SRM) and shows that these terms are becoming increasingly embedded into public discourse. Public ... read more |
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  Extreme Melting on Greenland Ice Sheet The Greenland ice sheet can experience extreme melting even when temperatures don't hit record highs, according to a new analysis by Dr. Marco Tedesco, assistant professor in the Department of Earth ... more | .. |
  Triple rescue joy for Turkish family after quake Rescuers plucked a two-week-old baby girl, her mother and grandmother from the rubble of Turkey's devastating earthquake Tuesday, sparking scenes of joy that electrified search efforts. ... more | .. |
  How plants sense low oxygen levels to survive flooding As countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam and parts of the United States and United Kingdom have fallen victim to catastrophic flooding in recent years, tolerance of crops to partial or com ... more | .. |
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  Discovery illuminates elusive proton channel gene in dinoflagellate A 40-year search for a gene that causes some one-celled sea creatures to flash at night and is also found in others that produce deadly red tides, has been successfully culminated by a group of scie ... more | .. |
 Turkish earthquake devastation compounded by lax code enforcement The Turkish civil engineer who has been working for many years to save Istanbul from an expected killer quake says the current devastation in Ercis is largely a product of the inability to enforce e ... more | .. |
 Ancient cooking pots reveal gradual transition to agriculture Humans may have undergone a gradual rather than an abrupt transition from fishing, hunting and gathering to farming, according to a new study of ancient pottery. Researchers at the University of Yor ... more | .. |
 Breakthrough in the production of flood-tolerant crops This week thousands of families lost their homes and crops as flood waters swept across Central America. In Thailand huge tracts of farmland were submerged as the country faced its worst flooding in ... 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
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  Forest fires are becoming larger and more frequent Research in which scientists from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) are participating analyzes the causes and characteristics of fires that have occurred in the Mediterranean basin in recent d ... more | .. |
 Stem Rust-resistant Wheat Landraces Identified U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have identified a number of stem rust-resistant wheat varieties and are retesting them to verify their resistance. Stem rust occurs worldwide w ... more | .. |
 China the culprit of potential water wars? Scarcity of water in Asia could become a thorny issue for the region and trigger major conflicts, an expert says. ... more | .. |
 Run-off, emissions deliver double whammy to coastal marine creatures Increasing acidification in coastal waters could compromise the ability of oysters and other marine creatures to form and keep their shells, according to a new study led by University of Georgia res ... more |
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 Hurricane Rina strengthens, takes aim at Cancun Hurricane Rina gathered force Tuesday, churning towards a possible direct hit on Cancun and other busy international tourist destinations on Mexico's resort-filled Caribbean coast. ... more | .. |
  'Historic' deal to halt hazardous waste export to south Leading world economies will no longer be able to export hazardous waste to poorer nations unless they obtain the latter's consent, a spokesman from the UN environment agency said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  US troops to advise front-line units on Uganda rebels US special forces will be deployed with front-line units as advisors to central African militaries hunting down the leaders of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army, a senior US official said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Eighth Brazilian farmer since May killed in Amazon An agricultural leader protesting illegal deforestation was shot to death in northern Brazil, the eighth environmentalist farmer to be killed since May in the Amazon, activists said Tuesday. ... 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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 Jet packs rule, say deep-sea astronauts Battery-powered jet packs are definitely the best part of tooling around on the ocean floor in practice drills for an eventual visit to an asteroid, an international crew of astronauts said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Apple alums give home thermostats a new twist Nest Labs, a startup founded by former Apple engineers, hopes to do for home thermostats what their former employer did for smartphones - make them hip and intuitive. ... more | .. |
 Topsy-turvy wine weather makes grape sorters shine A topsy-turvy growing season, which zigzagged from drought to hail to heat wave, produced a distressingly mixed crop in Bordeaux this year - but gave optical grape sorters a chance to shine. ... more | .. |
 Turkey's ethnic tension boils over in quake-hit city Crowds of Kurds pelted journalists and police with stones in the quake-hit city of Van on Tuesday as their anger at the Turkish media's coverage of the disaster boiled over. ... more |
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  China police detain Internet users Chinese police have begun to detain and punish people for spreading rumours online, the government said Tuesday, as authorities intensify efforts to censor content on the Internet. ... more | .. |
 Bangkok in 'crisis mode' as floods advance Bangkok's second airport shut down Tuesday as floodwaters advanced into the Thai capital, forcing authorities in "crisis mode" to declare a five-day public holiday in preparation for the deluge. ... more | .. |
Another Tibetan monk set himself a light in China A Tibetan Buddhist monk set himself on fire Tuesday in protest at China's rule of the Himalayan region, rights groups said, the tenth similar incident to occur in the nation's southwest this year. ... more | .. |
China to curb TV entertainment: Xinhua China will replace popular television entertainment with so-called "healthy" programming, state media reported on Tuesday, reflecting regulators' latest move to tighten media control. ... more |
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Japanese company aborts Moon mission after assumed crash-landing
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  Iceland to help France save trees from global warming Iceland and France are looking into the possibility of taking French trees endangered by global warming and planting them in Iceland to safeguard them for the future, officials said. ... more | .. |
  New evidence for the oldest oxygen-breathing life on land New University of Alberta research shows the first evidence that oxygen-breathing bacteria occupied and thrived on land 100 million years earlier than previously thought. The researchers show ... more | .. |
  Purdue leads national earthquake program blanketing Indiana with seismic stations Seismic equipment is being installed throughout Indiana as part of a national program to better understand how and why earthquakes and volcanic events occur, and Purdue University professors and stu ... more | .. |
  Tracing the first North American hunters A new and astonishing chapter has been added to North American prehistory in regards to the first hunters and their hunt for the now extinct giant mammoth-like creatures - the mastodons. Profe ... more |
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 A family tree for most-endangered bird family in the world Using one of the largest DNA data sets for a group of birds and employing next-generation sequencing methods, Smithsonian scientists and collaborators have determined the evolutionary family tree fo ... more | .. |
 NASA Releases Visual Tour of Earth's Fires NASA has released a series of new satellite data visualizations that show tens of millions of fires detected worldwide from space since 2002. The visualizations show fire observations made by the MO ... more | .. |
 Fiery volcano offers geologic glimpse into land that time forgot The first scientists to witness exploding rock and molten lava from a deep sea volcano, seen during a 2009 expedition, report that the eruption was near a tear in the Earth's crust that is mimicking ... more | .. |
 Putting light-harvesters on the spot How the light-harvesting complexes required for photosynthesis get to their site of action in the plant cell is reported by RUB biologists in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The team led ... more |
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