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Climate Change May Bring Big Ecosystem ChangesPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 19, 2011 By 2100, global climate change will modify plant communities covering almost half of Earth's land surface and will drive the conversion of nearly 40 percent of land-based ecosystems from one major ecological community type - such as forest, grassland or tundra - toward another, according to a new NASA and university computer modeling study. Researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., investigated how Earth's plant life is likely ... read more |
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  Follow your nose Differences in the temporal lobes and olfactory bulbs also suggest a combined use of brain functions related to cognition and olfaction. The increase of brain size is intimately linked to the evolut ... more | .. |
  Elephant seal travels 18,000 miles The Wildlife Conservation Society tracked a southern elephant seal for an astonishing 18,000 miles - the equivalent of New York to Sydney and back again. WCS tracked the male seal from December, 201 ... more | .. |
  Asparagus benefits from X-ray treatment As consumer demand for convenient, nutritious foods increases, pre-cut and packaged fruit and vegetables become more popular. Food producers are looking to science to discover new ways to safely ext ... more | .. |
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 How exposure to irregular light affects plant circadian rhythms Scientists know that plants can actually "sense" day length, and "schedule" their growth to coincide with specific environmental conditions. These natural events are based on the circadian clock, a ... more | .. |
 Starving orangutans might help to better understand obesity and eating disorders in humans Rutgers Evolutionary Anthropologist Erin Vogel thinks new research published in Biology Letters, a Journal of the Royal Society, examining how endangered Indonesian orangutans - considered a close r ... more | .. |
  Improved rainwater harvesting system promising Ridge and furrow rainwater-harvesting (RFRH) systems with mulches were first researched in the flat, lowland, semiarid conditions of northwest China to improve water availability and to increase cro ... more | .. |
 Scientists forecast crops that adapt to changing weather Crops that can cope with sudden fluctuations in the weather could be developed, thanks to fresh discoveries about the survival mechanisms of plants. Scientists studying how tiny algae renew ol ... more |
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US seeks deals for Alaska energy as Asia representatives visit
Czechs sign nuclear deal with S.Korea firm KHNP: PM
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 Strip-till improves nutrient uptake and yield The practice of deep banding fertilizer is growing in popularity as more growers turn to strip-till. However, this method may be costing growers more than it is worth. A new University of Illinois s ... more | .. |
  SMOS detects freezing soil as winter takes grip ESA's SMOS satellite is designed to observe soil moisture and ocean salinity, but this innovative mission is showing that it can also offer new insight into Earth's carbon and methane cycles by mapp ... more | .. |
 Butterflies: 'Twice-punished' by habitat fragmentation and climate change New findings by Virginie Stevens (CNRS), Jean Clobert (CNRS), Michel Baguette (Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle) and colleagues show that interactions between dispersal and life-histories are co ... more | .. |
  Chinese villagers threaten government office march Protesting villagers in southern China said Sunday they will march on government offices this week unless the body of a local leader is released and four villagers in police custody are freed. ... more |
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  Mass burial readied as Philippine flood rescuers struggle Rescuers struggled to help survivors and a ravaged city prepared for a mass burial as the death toll from devastating flash floods in the southern Philippines rose past 650 on Sunday. ... more | .. |
  Scientists try to gauge permafrost gases Scientists are working in Alaska to ascertain the potential impact of greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere from the arctic's permafrost. ... more | .. |
  Microfinancing lifts tsunami-hit Japan firms The world's third largest economy might not seem the obvious place to find the need for microfinancing, but for businesses in tsunami-ravaged northeast Japan, it could be the key to revival. ... more | .. |
  Beijing hits 'blue sky' target despite bad air Beijing authorities said Sunday they had met their target of "blue sky" days for 2011, amid growing public criticism that officials are underplaying the pollution problem in the Chinese capital. ... more |
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Ukraine war 'existential', Russia says, launching revenge strikes
'Aces up the sleeve': Ukraine drone attacks in Russia shake up conflict
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 Unrest challenging China before leadership change An open revolt against officialdom by Chinese villagers last week demonstrated the challenge social unrest poses to the Communist party as it prepares for a generational leadership handover. ... more | .. |
 Seething anger led to China village stand-off The villagers of Wukan in southern China say officials have been stealing their land for decades. So when a major deal involving yet more land was announced in September, their anger boiled over. ... more | .. |
  Leadership standoff in Papua New Guinea Heavily armed police are patrolling the capital of Papua New Guinea as a standoff continues between two men claiming to be prime minister. ... more | .. |
 Beijing orders microbloggers to register real names Beijing city authorities on Friday issued new rules requiring microbloggers to register their real names before posting online, as the Chinese government tightens its grip on the Internet. ... more |
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 Key steps to Fukushima plant 'cold shutdown' Japan's announcement that crippled reactors at its Fukushima nuclear plant have been brought to a state of cold shutdown marks the second step in the government's recovery plan and is the culmination of nine months of sometimes chaotic efforts to bring the reactors under control. ... more | .. |
 EU's Atlantic neighbours told 'last chance' in mackerel war Iceland and the Faroe Islands face their "last chance" to end a mackerel quota war in negotiations next month, EU fisheries ministers said, otherwise the EU could impose sanctions. ... more | .. |
China puts rights lawyer back in jail: Xinhua Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has been sent back to prison after a court ruled he had violated the terms of his probation, the official Xinhua news agency said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Brazil judge says work can resume at Amazon dam A judge in Brazil on Friday revoked his own order to halt work on a controversial $11 billion dam in the Amazon region, a project that has been criticized by environmentalists and native groups. ... 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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 Nearly 600 dead and missing in Philippines storm Tropical storm Washi raked across the southern Philippines, unleashing mammoth floods across vast areas that left almost 200 people dead and nearly 400 more missing, officials said Saturday. ... more | .. |
 First public appearance of Chinese pandas at Scottish zoo Hundreds of animal lovers flocked to Edinburgh Zoo on Friday to get the first glimpse of two giant pandas which arrived from China earlier this month. ... more | .. |
  Kenya vows air strikes on far-flung Shebab towns Kenyan troops battling Shebab insurgents in southern Somalia vowed Saturday to carry out air strikes deeper into rebel-held territory. ... more | .. |
Japan nuclear efforts only 'first aid': press Japanese newspapers Saturday dismissed Tokyo's declaration of a "cold shutdown" at the Fukushima nuclear plant as meaning only "first aid" had been completed, saying a long recovery still lay ahead. ... more |
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Pentagon chief Panetta visits Libya US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta was in Tripoli on Saturday on the first visit to Libya by a Pentagon chief to study up close the security needs of the new government. ... more | .. |
  Massive outage as storm batters northern France A storm battered France and Switzerland on Friday, with three people injured in a Swiss train derailment, hundreds of thousands left without power and a grounded ship spilling oil off Brittany. ... more | .. |
 EU stuck on three new GM authorisations Failure by EU agriculture ministers to decide on authorisation for three genetically-modified maize and cotton strains overnight left the matter in the hands of the EU executive on Friday. ... more | .. |
  Hong Kong school closed in bird flu scare A Hong Kong school was closed on Friday after a dead bird found in the southern Chinese city was tested positive for the deadly H5 strain of the bird flu virus, health officials said. ... more |
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