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New study evaluates impact of land use activity in the Amazon basinFalmouth MA (SPX) Jan 19, 2012 A new paper published in Nature reveals that human land use activity has begun to change the regional water and energy cycles - the interplay of air coming in from the Atlantic Ocean, water transpiration by the forest, and solar radiation - of parts of the Amazon basin. In addition, it shows that ongoing interactions between deforestation, fire, and climate change have the potential to alter carbon storage, rainfall patterns and river discharge on an even larger basin-wide scale. The researc ... read more |
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  Black Saturday provides bushfire answers Clearing vegetation close to houses is the best way to reduce impacts of severe bushfires, according to a team of scientists from Australia and the USA who examined house loss after as a result of B ... more | .. |
  Insects top latest inventory of newly discovered species More than half of the 19,232 species newly known to science in 2009, the most recent calendar year of compilation, were insects - 9,738 or 50.6 percent - according to the 2011 State of Observed Spec ... more | .. |
  Ethiopia: Thousands driven out in land grab Human rights activists say tens of thousands of people in western Ethiopia are being driven off fertile ancestral lands so the government can lease or sell large tracts of farmland for commercial agriculture to investors, including foreign governments. ... more | .. |
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  Chinese cities disclose pollution data? Most of China's big cities failed to adequately make pollution data public last year, a new study indicates. ... more | .. |
  Disasters cost $366 billion in 2011: UN Natural disasters such as the huge earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan caused a record $366 billion (285 million euros) damage in 2011, the UN disaster risk reduction agency UNISDR said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Ancient popcorn discovered in Peru People living along the coast of Peru were eating popcorn 1,000 years earlier than previously reported and before ceramic pottery was used there, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the N ... more | .. |
  Counterfeit and substandard antimalaria drugs threaten crisis in Africa Hopes of at last controlling malaria in Africa could be dashed by the emergence of poor-quality and fraudulent antimalarial medicines, warn experts writing in 'Malaria Journal'. Unless urgent action ... more |
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Thorium plated steel points to smaller nuclear clocks
Solar ghost particles seen flipping carbon atoms in underground detector
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 Anti-malaria drug synthesised with the help of oxygen and light The most effective anti-malaria drug can now be produced inexpensively and in large quantities. This means that it will be possible to provide medication for the 225 million malaria patients in deve ... more | .. |
  Mapping the destructive path from cigarette to emphysema From the cherry red tip of a lighted cigarette through the respiratory tract to vital lung cells, the havoc created by tobacco smoke seems almost criminal, activating genes and portions of the immun ... more | .. |
 UF researchers discover 'green' pesticide effective against citrus pests University of Florida researchers have discovered a key amino acid essential for human nutrition is also an effective insecticide against caterpillars that threaten the citrus industry. The Li ... more | .. |
  Map project accuses Google users of edits The OpenStreetMap project, an open source mapping group competing with Google Maps, say user accounts in India linked to Google have tampered with its data. ... more |
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  Chile sees trouble ahead in energy output Chilean President Sebastian Pinera says the country's energy outlook is likely to get worse before it gets better. ... more | .. |
  Outside View: Circular firing squads On the current trajectory (and assuming that no untoward events change the calculus before November), Barack Obama seems well on his way to winning a second term in the White House. Of the reasons for this prediction, three stand out: Republicans, Republicans and still more Republicans. ... more | .. |
 UAE to host global water conference next year Abu Dhabi will host an international summit on water next year, Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, the head of a project to build a zero-carbon city on the outskirts of the UAE capital, said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Shangri-La joins fight against shark fin soup Luxury hotel chain Shangri-La has announced it will stop serving shark fin at its 72 properties worldwide, as the campaign to protect the marine predators gains ground among Chinese consumers. ... more |
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Autonomous DARPA project to expand satellite surveillance network by BAE Systems
IAEA calls for repair work on Chernobyl sarcophagus
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  Three injured as Japan whalers use hooks: activists Three anti-whaling demonstrators have been injured after Japanese crew members used grappling hooks and bamboo poles against them in a high seas clash, activist group Sea Shepherd said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong clean air targets fail to impress Environmentalists on Wednesday expressed disappointment at new clean-air targets for Hong Kong, as research showed pollution-related illnesses killed more than 3,000 residents a year. ... more | .. |
  Slow response to East Africa famine cost lives: agencies Thousands of people in East Africa died needlessly because the international community failed to respond to early warnings of famine, Oxfam and Save the Children warned Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  China charges activist with subversion: lawyer A Chinese court has charged veteran democracy activist Zhu Yufu with subversion for publishing a poem online urging people to gather and call for greater freedoms, his lawyer said on Wednesday. ... more |
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  Shivering S. Koreans battle 'Big Chill' in offices "It's freezing!" complained chef Byun Sang-Won, jogging on the spot with arms folded and teeth clenched as he tried to keep warm inside the luxury Seoul hotel where he works. ... more | .. |
 Wood-burning stoves - harmful or safe? Wood-burning stoves are a popular source of heating in many countries. However in recent years there has been much debate about the potential negative health effects associated with wood smoke. A No ... more | .. |
 Solutions for a nitrogen-soaked world Nitrogen is both an essential nutrient and a pollutant, a byproduct of fossil fuel combustion and a fertilizer that feeds billions, a benefit and a hazard, depending on form, location, and quantity. ... more | .. |
 Not On My Planet: How far is far enough There is an increasing trend towards nimbyism - people welcome developments in principle, so long as they are "not in my back yard". But just how big is a back yard? The answer depends on a nu ... more |
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Robotic welding project to prepare UK for in orbit repairs
OroraTech expands GENA satellite platform with orbital testbed for scientific payloads
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 Fruit flies watch the sky to stay on course Insects, equipped with complex compound eyes, can maintain a constant heading in their travels, some of them for thousands of miles. New research demonstrates that fruit flies keep their bearings by ... more | .. |
 What Happened to all the Snow? Winter seems to be on hold this year in some parts of the United States. Snowfall has been scarce so far in places that were overwhelmed with the white stuff by the same time last year. Here's ... more | .. |
  Looking back on 100 million years of evolution Two-timing is nothing out of the ordinary for them: for about 100 million years, grass smut fungi have been breeding in a three-gender system. This was discovered by Dr. Ronny Kellner and Prof. Dr. ... more | .. |
  Sitting pretty: bum's the word in Japan security Put your fingerprint scanners away. Stand aside iris measurers. Buttocks are the new way to prove who you are. ... more |
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 The fermented cereal beverage of the Sumerians may not have been beer Archaeological finds from cuneiform tablets and remnants of different vessels from over 4,000 years ago show that even around the dawn of civilisation, fermented cereal juice was highly enjoyed by M ... more | .. |
 Biologists replicate key evolutionary step More than 500 million years ago, single-celled organisms on the Earth's surface began forming multicellular clusters that ultimately became plants and animals. Just how that happened is a question t ... more | .. |
  Eyeing resources, India, China, Brazil, Japan, other countries want a voice on Arctic Council With an eye on rapid changes in the resource-rich Arctic, countries like China, India and Brazil, which have no Arctic territories, are nonetheless knocking on the door of the increasingly influenti ... more | .. |
  British scientific expedition discovers world's deepest known undersea volcanic vents A British scientific expedition has discovered the world's deepest undersea volcanic vents, known as 'black smokers', 3.1 miles (5000 metres) down in the Cayman Trough in the Caribbean. Using a deep ... more |
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