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NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on RecordNew York, NY (SPX) Jan 20, 2012 The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. The finding continues a trend in which nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000. NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, which monitors global surface temperatures on an ongoing basis, released an updated analysis that shows temperatures around the globe in 2011 compared to the average global temperature from ... read more |
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 NASA Sees Repeating La Nina Hitting its Peak La Nina, "the diva of drought," is peaking, increasing the odds that the Pacific Northwest will have more stormy weather this winter and spring, while the southwestern and southern United States wil ... more | .. |
  Fast action climate mitigation measures can prevent 0.5 degree of global warming A new study in Science identifies 14 fast action measures to reduce air pollutants that can deliver major benefits for climate, public health, and agriculture. The measures reduce emissions of black ... more | .. |
  Unveiling malaria's cloak of invisibility The discovery by researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of a molecule that is key to malaria's 'invisibility cloak' will help to better understand how the parasite causes disease and e ... more | .. |
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  Evidence of Past Southern Hemisphere Rainfall Cycles Related to Antarctic Temperatures Geoscientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Minnesota this week published the first evidence that warm-cold climate oscillations well known in the Northern Hemisph ... more | .. |
 Miracle tree substance produces clean drinking water inexpensively and sustainably A natural substance obtained from seeds of the "miracle tree" could purify and clarify water inexpensively and sustainably in the developing world, where more than 1 billion people lack access to cl ... more | .. |
  Juvenile predation preventing Steller sea lion recovery A new study suggests that the impact of predation on juvenile Steller sea lions in the Gulf of Alaska has been significantly underestimated, creating a "productivity pit" from which their population ... more | .. |
 Climate balancing: Sea-level rise vs. surface temperature change rates Engineering our way out of global climate warming may not be as easy as simply reducing the incoming solar energy, according to a team of University of Bristol and Penn State climate scientists. Des ... more |
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NYT signs AI deal with Amazon; Generative AI's most prominent skeptic doubles down
Generative AI's most prominent skeptic doubles down
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  Team finds natural reasons behind nitrogen-rich forests Many tropical forests are extremely rich in nitrogen even when there are no farms or industries nearby, says Montana State University researcher Jack Brookshire. It's because of biological int ... more | .. |
 Extremely rare turtle released into the wild The Wildlife Conservation Society, in conjunction with the Cambodian Fisheries Administration and Wildlife Reserves Singapore, has announced the successful release of a Southern River terrapin (Bata ... more | .. |
  BP could pay US $25 billion for Gulf oil spill: analyst BP could pay as much as $25 billion dollars to settle criminal and civil lawsuits relating to the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, analyst group Morgan Stanley said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Indonesia pledges to conserve half of Borneo region Indonesia's forestry ministry said Thursday it would conserve nearly half its share of Borneo island, which is covered with dense rainforest, so as to meet a presidential pledge to reduce gas emissions. ... more |
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  Nigeria police fire tear gas at Lagos protest Nigerian police fired tear gas Thursday in Lagos at hundreds of protestors marching against the authorities' security crackdown in the aftermath of a week-long strike over fuel prices. ... more | .. |
  China villagers win quick concessions after protest Villagers in Guangdong province who protested against their leader have won unusually speedy official concessions, a resident said Thursday, amid fears of more unrest in China's manufacturing heartland. ... more | .. |
  TEPCO uses camera to survey Fukushima reactor The operators of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant said Thursday they had passed an industrial camera into one of the wrecked reactors, in their first attempt to directly check the interior. ... more | .. |
  At least 100 hurt in Iran earthquake: reports A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck the area of the city of Neyshabour in northeast Iran on Thursday, injuring at least 100 people and damaging several houses, state media reported. ... more |
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SpaceX launches advanced GPS satellite for Space Force
Trump 'tough love' on defence better than no love: EU's Kallas
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 Amazon Basin shifting to carbon emitter: study The Amazon Basin, traditionally considered a bulwark against global warming, may be becoming a net contributor of carbon dioxide (CO2) as a result of deforestation, researchers said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Flooding forces South Africa's Kruger Park to close gates Severe flooding has forced South Africa's world-famous Kruger National Park to close its gates after dozens of tourists on safari had to be airlifted to safety, an official said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Mozambique tropical storm kills five Five people died and thousands were affected in the first tropical storm to hit southern Mozambique since 1984, an official said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 UN sees 'massive' fall in South Africa AIDS cases South Africa, home to the highest number of HIV cases in the world, should see a massive reduction by the end of the decade after a sea-change in government policy, a UNAIDS official said Thursday. ... more |
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  Death toll rises to 28 in Afghan snow, avalanches Helicopters flew supplies into snowbound villages in mountainous northeastern Afghanistan Thursday as the death toll from heavy snowfalls and avalanches rose to at least 28, an official said. ... more | .. |
 China jails third activist in a month for subversion Chinese democracy activist Li Tie has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for subversion, becoming the third dissident to be put behind bars in less than a month, a relative said Thursday. ... more | .. |
Dragon Year spells nightmare for Hong Kong mums Having a baby in the "Year of the Dragon" is a dream come true for many ethnic Chinese who see the zodiac as an auspicious and powerful portent. But for some Hong Kong mothers, it's a nightmare. ... more | .. |
 Bird flu kills two in Cambodia, Vietnam Vietnam on Thursday reported its first human death from bird flu in nearly two years, as the virus also claimed the life of a toddler in Cambodia. ... more |
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Trump says withdrawing Musk ally as nominee to head NASA
Next phase of NASA's Artemis II testing set to begin
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 New study evaluates impact of land use activity in the Amazon basin 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 transpir ... 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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