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Dust linked to increased glacier melting and ocean productivityMiami FL (SPX) Mar 09, 2012 A University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science-led study shows a link between large dust storms on Iceland and glacial melting. The dust is both accelerating glacial melting and contributing important nutrients to the surrounding North Atlantic Ocean. The results provide new insights on the role of dust in climate change and high-latitude ocean ecosystems. UM Rosenstiel School Professor Joseph M. Prospero and colleagues Joanna E. Bullard and Richard Hodgkins (Loughb ... read more |
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  Overfishing leaves swaths of Mediterranean barren Centuries of overexploitation of fish and other marine resources - as well as invasion of fish from the Red Sea - have turned some formerly healthy ecosystems of the Mediterranean Sea into barren pl ... more | .. |
 Contamination of La Selva geothermal system in Girona, Spain Monitoring the construction of wells, avoid over-exploiting cold groundwater close to hot groundwater, and controlling mineral water extraction. These are the recommendations from the Polytechnic Un ... more | .. |
  Depression: Evolutionary byproduct of the ability to fight infection? Depression is common enough - afflicting one in ten adults in the United States - that it seems the possibility of depression must be "hard-wired" into our brains. This has led biologists to propose ... more | .. |
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  New light shed on cause of lung injury in severe flu While some scientists report engineering a super virulent strain of the H5N1 influenza virus, which could potentially wipe out a significant percentage of the human population, another group of rese ... more | .. |
  Genetics of endangered African monkey suggest troubles from warming climate A rare and endangered monkey in an African equatorial rainforest is providing a look into our climatic future through its DNA. Its genes show that wild drills (Mandrillus leucophaeus), already an ov ... more | .. |
  Volcanoes deliver two flavors of water Seawater circulation pumps hydrogen and boron into the oceanic plates that make up the seafloor, and some of this seawater remains trapped as the plates descend into the mantle at areas called subdu ... more | .. |
 Heart-powered pacemaker could one day eliminate battery-replacement surgery A new power scheme for cardiac pacemakers turns to an unlikely source: vibrations from heartbeats themselves. Engineering researchers at the University of Michigan designed a device that harvests en ... more |
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Trump signs orders to boost US nuclear energy
Anthropic's Claude AI gets smarter -- and mischievious
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 First study to measure value of marine spatial planning The ocean is becoming an increasingly crowded place. New users, such as the wind industry, compete with existing users and interests for space and resources. With the federal mandate for comprehensi ... more | .. |
  UC Santa Barbara researchers discover genetic link between visual pathways of hydras and humans What good is half an eye? Evolutionary biologists studying the origins of vision get that question a lot, and new research out of UC Santa Barbara points to a possible answer. The findings appear in ... more | .. |
  Mali rebels strike amid post-Libya anarchy North Africa, never the most placid of places, has been plunged into turmoil in recent weeks by groups of heavily armed fighters that have fanned out across the Sahara to destabilize the region known as the Maghreb. ... more | .. |
  Scientists survey seabed fractured by Japan quake Scientists on Thursday launched a mission to the seabed off Japan where a massive quake triggered last year's devastating tsunami, to get their first proper look at the buckled ocean floor. ... more |
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 Quake researchers warn of Tokyo's 'Big One' A year on from one of the biggest earthquakes in recorded history, Japanese scientists are warning anew that Tokyo could soon be hit by a quake that will kill thousands and cause untold damage. ... more | .. |
  China backs down from legalising secret detentions China has abandoned controversial plans to make it legal to "disappear" criminal suspects following a huge public outcry, in a move hailed as a victory for judicial reformers. ... more | .. |
 Chaos as Sydney lashed by heaviest rainfall in five years Sydney was thrown into chaos Thursday after the city's heaviest rainfall in five years sparked widespread flash flooding and forced the closure of railway lines and dozens of roads. ... more | .. |
 Evidence of iridescent feathers in a tree-hopping dino US and Chinese researchers have found the oldest evidence of iridescent black feathers in Microraptor, a dinosaur the size of a small crow that perched in forest tree branches 130 million years ago. ... more |
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Russia strikes Kyiv after first stage of major prisoner swap
Growing Arctic military presence worries Finland's reindeer herders
South Korea says concerned by China's 'no-sail zone' in overlapping waters | .. |
  Hong Kong begins monitoring fine particle pollution The Hong Kong government on Thursday began releasing hourly readings of the smallest, most dangerous pollution particles, as it bowed to public pressure for greater transparency about air quality. ... more | .. |
 James Cameron to explore Earth's deepest ocean trench "Titanic" director James Cameron will try in the coming weeks to dive to the deepest place on Earth, further than any other human has on a solo mission, to return with specimens and images. ... more | .. |
  Thailand seizes tigers, lions in wildlife bust Thai authorities seized more than 200 live animals, including tigers and lions among other rare species, in a raid on an illegal wildlife supplier on Wednesday, police said. ... more | .. |
 Tsunami towns at crossroads, despite clean-up The boat that was dumped on the roof of Otsuchi's two-storey hotel has gone, and much of the rubble that littered this fishing port has been cleared. But the town lies paralysed, unable to rebuild and unwilling to abandon. ... more |
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  One Year after Fukushima The Fukushima disaster happened one year ago - the impacts are not over yet, neither in Japan nor in Germany. Immediately after the reactor accident became known, KIT established working groups that ... more | .. |
  Sturdy Scandinavian conifers survived Ice Age Until now, it was presumed that the last glacial period denuded the Scandinavian landscape of trees until a gradual return of milder weather began and melted away the ice cover some 9000 years ago. ... more | .. |
  First Evidence of Hunting by Prehistoric Ohioans Cut marks found on Ice Age bones indicate that humans in Ohio hunted or scavenged animal meat earlier than previously known. Dr. Brian Redmond, curator of archaeology at The Cleveland Museum of Natu ... more | .. |
 Researchers harness Kraken to model explosions via transport First, the bad news: all across America, trucks and tractor-trailers are transporting industrial explosives on nearly every artery of the country's interstate and highway system. That's right, volat ... more |
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After two setbacks, SpaceX could try to launch massive Starship next week
Doubt cast on claim of 'hints' of life on faraway planet
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 Oldest fossilized forest revealed An international team, including a Cardiff University researcher, who previously found evidence of the Earth's earliest tree, has gone one step further. The research team has now unearthed and inves ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin and ZyGEM To Offer Rapid DNA Analysis Platform for Human Identity Testing Lockheed Martin and ZyGEM announced plans to release a version of their rapid DNA analysis platform that is designed to simplify and speed DNA analysis for human identity testing. Pre-producti ... more | .. |
 Protecting living fossil trees Scientists are working to protect living fossil trees in Fiji from the impact of climate change with cutting-edge DNA sequencing technology. Dr Peter Prentis, from QUT's Science and Engineering Facu ... more | .. |
 GIS siting of emergency vehicles improves response time In an emergency, minutes matter. With this knowledge, University of Georgia researchers developed a new method for determining where emergency vehicle stations should be located. The results of thei ... more |
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 In forests, past disturbances obscure warming impacts Past disturbances, such as logging, can obscure the effects of climate change on forest ecosystems. So reports a study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The pape ... more | .. |
 Water shortage a global threat without urgent reform: OECD Urgent reforms to raise efficiency in the way water is used around the world are needed to avert serious shortages in the next decades, and markets in water can help, the OECD said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Moon to blame for sinking of Titanic? While no one denies an iceberg sank the liner Titanic 100 year ago, there may have been another culprit that put it there, U.S. scientists say - the moon. ... more | .. |
 Rebel China village revolution unlikely to spread Residents of a Chinese village who voted for new leaders in weekend elections after rising up against corrupt officials are hoping they will become a model of democracy in the one-party state. ... more |
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