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Carbon mitigation strategy uses wood for buildings first, bioenergy secondSeattle WA (SPX) Nov 25, 2011 Proposals to remove the carbon dioxide caused by burning fossil fuel from the atmosphere include letting commercially managed forests grow longer between harvests or not cutting them at all. An article published in the journal Forests says, however, that Pacific Northwest trees grown and harvested sustainably, such as every 45 years, can both remove existing carbon dioxide from the air and help keep the gas from entering the atmosphere in the first place. That's provided wood is used primari ... read more |
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  First-class views of the world below Images of some of our planet's most beautiful features can be seen from the comfort of your Air France aircraft thanks to satellites. Clouds can't obstruct these views: the crystal waters of t ... more | .. |
  Water doesn't have to freeze until minus 55 Fahrenheit We drink water, bathe in it and we are made mostly of water, yet the common substance poses major mysteries. Now, University of Utah chemists may have solved one enigma by showing how cold water can ... more | .. |
  Lightning Sprites Are Out-of-This-World Only a few decades ago, scientists discovered the existence of "sprites" 30 to 55 miles above the surface of the Earth. They're offshoots of electric discharges caused by lightning storms, and a val ... more | .. |
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  Human, artificial intelligence join forces to pinpoint fossil locations In 1991, a team led by Washington University in St. Louis paleoanthropologist Glenn Conroy, PhD, discovered the fossils of the first - and still the only - known pre-human ape ever found south of th ... more | .. |
 West coast log, lumber exports in first 9 months of 2011 surpass 2010 totals Log and lumber exports from Washington, Oregon, northern California, and Alaska in the first three quarters of 2011 already surpass the total exports of 2010 according to the U.S. Forest Service's P ... more | .. |
  Public Misperception About Scientific Agreement on Global Warming Undermines Policy Support People who believe there is a lot of disagreement among scientists about global warming tend to be less certain that global warming is happening and less supportive of climate policy, researchers at ... more | .. |
  Ozone From Rock Fracture Could Serve As Earthquake Early Warning Researchers the world over are seeking reliable ways to predict earthquakes, focusing on identifying seismic precursors that, if detected early enough, could serve as early warnings. New resea ... 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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 Massive volcanoes, meteorite impacts delivered one-two death punch to dinosaurs A cosmic one-two punch of colossal volcanic eruptions and meteorite strikes likely caused the mass-extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period that is famous for killing the dinosaurs 65 mi ... more | .. |
 Indra Enhances Imaging Of Spatial Mission For The Study Of Water On Earth Indra has finished the upgrade of the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) data processing system installed at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) located in Villafranca del Castillo (Madr ... more | .. |
 Earth's core deprived of oxygen The composition of the Earth's core remains a mystery. Scientists know that the liquid outer core consists mainly of iron, but it is believed that small amounts of some other elements are present as ... more | .. |
 SSTL appoints Luis Gomes Director of EO and Science Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has appointed Luis Gomes Business Unit Director of Earth Observation (EO) and Science. He is now responsible for the strategic direction at SSTL in these m ... more |
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  Study: Arctic ice melting 'unprecedented' Arctic sea ice has declined at an unprecedented rate during the past 50 years, a study in the British journal Nature said. ... more | .. |
 EU urges emerging nations to commit to new climate deal The European Union's top climate diplomat, Connie Hedegaard, urged emerging economies Thursday to commit to a second Kyoto period at global climate talks kicking off next week in Durban, South Africa. ... more | .. |
  Quakes hit Japan A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake rocked the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido Thursday but there were no immediate reports of damage, officials said. ... more | .. |
Delay means higher cost for climate change action: OECD The cost of meeting the world's target for global warming could rise by half if current pledges under the UN flag to cut carbon emissions are not improved, the OECD said on Thursday. ... 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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  China to offer social security to Tibetan clergy China will start paying pensions to monks and nuns in its Tibetan areas, the official Xinhua news agency said Thursday, after a run of self-immolations by Buddhist clergy protesting religious repression. ... more | .. |
Global warming rate less than feared: study High levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may have less of an impact on the rate of global warming than feared, a study said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Brazil offers to resolve land issue for Guarani Indians Brazilian authorities said Thursday they were close to a deal to secure a demarcated territory for Kaiowa Guarani Indians in the western state of Mato Grosso do Sul following last week's killing of a community chief. ... more | .. |
  Central America storms caused $2 bln in damage Violent storms that tore through Central America in October killed 123 people and caused $2 billion in damages, according to a report by regional experts. ... more |
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  6,000 evacuated after China chemical plant blast Around 6,000 people were evacuated Thursday after an explosion at a chemical plant near the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, state media reported. ... more | .. |
China state TV gets new boss: Xinhua Beijing on Thursday named a new head of the government-run China Central Television (CCTV) network, state media reported, a month after the Asian giant said it wanted to increase its soft power abroad. ... more | .. |
Chinese state newspaper urges against 'revolt' China is edging closer to democracy partly because of the Internet but should avoid the deadly social unrest seen in countries such as Egypt, a state-run newspaper said in an editorial Thursday. ... more | .. |
  New Projection Shows Global Food Demand Doubling by 2050 Global food demand could double by 2050, according to a new projection reported this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The analysis also shows that the worl ... 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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 New projection shows global food demand doubling by 2050 Global food demand could double by 2050, according to a new projection by David Tilman, Regents Professor of Ecology in the University of Minnesota's College of Biological Sciences, and colleagues, ... more | .. |
 Limited options for meeting 2C warming target We will only achieve the target of limiting global warming to safe levels if carbon dioxide emissions begin to fall within the next two decades and eventually decrease to zero. That is the stark mes ... more | .. |
  New evidence of interhuman aggression and human induced trauma 126,000 years ago The study of a cranium of an East Asian human from the late Middle Pleistocene age from Maba, China, brings to the fore evidence that interhuman aggression and human induced trauma occurred 126,000 ... more | .. |
 Hurricane Kenneth becomes late-season record-breaking major hurricane NASA satellites have been watching hurricane Kenneth in the eastern Pacific. Kenneth became a late-season major hurricane. In fact, Kenneth sets a record for the latest season major hurricane in the ... more |
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 Vermicompost beneficial for organically grown tomatoes Marketable yields of organic horticultural crops frequently fall below those of conventional crops; this and other factors restrict widespread adoption of organic production. Researchers recen ... more | .. |
 Bleak future for Bay area tidal marshes? A new study, led by PRBO Conservation Science (PRBO), projects a bleak future for San Francisco Bay's tidal marshes under high-end sea-level rise scenarios that are increasingly likely. PRBO and col ... more | .. |
 Introducing L-PEACH: Tool for understanding peach tree development In peach trees, as in other plants, the energy used to create carbohydrates that support growth and development comes from solar radiation through the process of photosynthesis. Peach tree productiv ... more | .. |
 Smithsonian scientists use fossil feathers reveal lineage of extinct, flightless ibis A remarkable first occurred recently at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History when ornithologists Carla Dove and Storrs Olson used 700- to 1,100-year-old feathers from a long extinct ... more |
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