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Global Extinction: Gradual Doom Is Just As Bad As AbruptCincinnati OH (SPX) Feb 07, 2012 A painstakingly detailed investigation shows that mass extinctions need not be sudden events. The deadliest mass extinction of all took a long time to kill 90 percent of Earth's marine life, and it killed in stages, according to a newly published report. Thomas J. Algeo, professor of geology at the University of Cincinnati, worked with 13 co-authors to produce a high-resolution look at the geology of a Permian-Triassic boundary section on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic. Their analysis, pu ... read more |
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  Bouquet bargains trade off for life Most creatures face compromises when they reproduce - the more energy they devote to having lots of babies, the less they can invest in each one. But do the same tradeoffs hold true for plants? Biol ... more | .. |
 Castaway lizards provide insight into elusive evolutionary process A University of Rhode Island biologist who released lizards on tiny uninhabited islands in the Bahamas has shed light on the interaction between evolutionary processes that are seldom observed. ... more | .. |
  Understanding how bacteria come back from the dead Salmonella remains a serious cause of food poisoning in the UK and throughout the EU, in part due to its ability to thrive and quickly adapt to the different environments in which it can grow. ... more | .. |
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  Europe sends in ice-breakers to battle big chill Authorities used everything from ice-breaking explosives to tractors on Tuesday to overcome Europe's big freeze, as dozens more died of hypothermia and tens of thousands remained cut off by snow. ... more | .. |
 Profiling Prolific Plant Hunters Provides Insight Today's alarmingly high rate of plant extinction necessitates an increased understanding of the world's biodiversity. An estimated 15 to 30 percent of the world's flowering plants have yet to be dis ... more | .. |
  Nearly half China farmers suffer land grabs: report More than 43 percent of Chinese farmers in a wide-ranging study have been victims of land grabs and local governments have made huge profits in the process, state press said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 A spider web's strength lies in more than its silk While researchers have long known of the incredible strength of spider silk, the robust nature of the tiny filaments cannot alone explain how webs survive multiple tears and winds that exceed hurric ... more |
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Seoul's power giant pushes back on EU probe into Czech nuclear bid
Nuclear option: Indonesia seeks to grow energy, cut emissions
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  Land-cover changes do not impact glacier loss The composition of land surface - such as vegetation type and land use - regulates the interaction of radiation, sensible heat and humidity between the land surface and the atmosphere and, thus, inf ... more | .. |
  Flood fears ease in Australia as clean-up begins Fears eased Tuesday that a swollen river would breach its banks in the Australian state of Queensland as residents in other areas began a huge clean-up after floods wrecked havoc. ... more | .. |
  Sediments from the Enol lake reveal more than 13,500 years of environmental history A team of Spanish researchers have used different geological samples, extracted from the Enol lake in Asturias, to show that the Holocene, a period that started 11,600 years ago, did not have a clim ... more | .. |
 Discovery of extremely long-lived proteins may provide insight into cell aging One of the big mysteries in biology is why cells age. Now scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have discovered a weakness in a component of brain cells that may e ... more |
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  China's hardline politics clash with soft power China's hardline political stance, as shown by its veto of a UN resolution on Syria at the weekend, is increasingly clashing with the Asian powerhouse's efforts to improve its image abroad, analysts say. ... more | .. |
  'Atlantis' gone in new Google map image A Google Earth image with an undersea gridlike pattern some suspected were sunken streets of the mythological city of Atlantis has been updated, official said. ... more | .. |
  Pollution takes heavy toll on China China is paying a high price for pollution resulting from the country's soaring economic development fueled by low energy costs, an environmental report claims. ... more | .. |
  Liberia Nobel Laureate Gbowee launches peace foundation Joint Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee on Monday launched a peace foundation in her country Liberia aimed at lifting young girls out of social squalor and giving them life skills. ... more |
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North Korea says US missile shield plans risk 'nuclear war' in space
NATO head expects members to agree to spend 5% GDP on defense
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 Philippine quake kills 43 At least 43 people were killed when a powerful earthquake triggered landslides, collapsed homes and smashed bridges across the central Philippines on Monday, authorities said. ... more | .. |
 Russia 'drills into' Antarctic subglacial lake A Russian team has succeeded in drilling through four kilometres (2.5 miles) of ice to the surface of a mythical subglacial Antarctic lake which could hold as yet unknown life forms, reports said Monday. ... more | .. |
 China to 'resolutely crack down' on Tibetan unrest China said Tuesday it would "resolutely crack down" on any attempts to instigate violence in Tibetan-inhabited areas, where authorities have launched a deadly clampdown on protesters. ... more | .. |
 Deadly cold front continues as dam bursts in Bulgaria The toll from Europe's killer cold snap hit at least 360 on Monday with nine new victims found in Poland, most of them homeless, and five drowned when a Bulgarian dam burst after torrential rain. ... more |
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 Castaway Lizards Offer New Look at Evolutionary Processes Biologists who released lizards on tiny uninhabited islands in the Bahamas have uncovered a seldom-observed interaction between evolutionary processes. Jason Kolbe, a biologist at the Universi ... more | .. |
 China's heir apparent bigger than Pope: Iowa governor The upcoming visit of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, the growing Asian power's likely next leader, is going to be the biggest thing that's happened to Iowa since Pope John Paul II visited in 1979, the farm state's governor said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Jurassic chirp: scientists recreate ancient cricket song The call of a Jurassic-era cricket was simple, pure and capable of traveling long distances in the night, said scientists who reconstructed the creature's love song from a 165 million year old fossil. ... more | .. |
 Floods add to Europe's cold to claim more lives The toll from Europe's winter weather pushed past 360 Monday when snow- and rain-swollen rivers burst a Bulgarian dam and killed at least eight, while more homeless people perished on frigid city streets. ... more |
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Czech Republic eyes astronaut mission through Axiom Space collaboration
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 Tibet exiles say repression in China at new heights A continuing spate of self-immolations by Tibetans in China are a desperate response to "new levels" of Chinese persecution, the Tibet government-in-exile said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Thai police bust Bangkok rare wildlife 'butchers' Thai police busted a grisly exotic wildlife slaughterhouse in Bangkok when officers caught four men in the act of chopping up a tiger in a residential home, officials said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Mass evacuation in Australia as flood waters rise Flood waters rose Monday in parts of Queensland but residents of a threatened town in the Australian state were thrown a lifeline with news that the levee on a swollen river might hold. ... more | .. |
 Death toll from Europe cold snap passes 300 The deadly cold snap that has gripped Europe for more than a week wrought more havoc across the continent Sunday, straining emergency services, grounding flights and pushing the death toll past 300. ... more |
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 Tropical Cyclones to Cause Greater Damage Tropical cyclones will cause $109 billion in damages by 2100, according to Yale and MIT researchers in a paper published in Nature Climate Change. That figure represents an increased vulnerability f ... more | .. |
  Short-term memory is based on synchronized brain oscillations Holding information within one's memory for a short while is a seemingly simple and everyday task. We use our short-term memory when remembering a new telephone number if there is nothing to write a ... more | .. |
 The good news about carbon storage in tropical vegetation A study published in Nature Climate Change finds that tropical vegetation contains 21 percent more carbon than previous studies had suggested. Using a combination of remote sensing and field data, s ... more | .. |
 Road Runoff Spurring Spotted Salamander Evolution Spotted salamanders exposed to contaminated roadside ponds are adapting to their toxic environments, according to a Yale paper in Scientific Reports. This study provides the first documented evidenc ... more |
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