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Research reveals carbon footprint caused by China's irrigation systemNorwich, UK (SPX) Mar 21, 2012 China's groundwater irrigation system is responsible for polluting the atmosphere with more than 30 million tonnes of CO2 per year - according to research from the University of East Anglia. Groundwater used for crop irrigation in China has grown from 10 billion cubic metres in 1950 to more than 100 billion today. A research paper, published today in Environmental Research Letters, estimates that the pumping systems which support this immense irrigation network annually produce 33.1 MtCO2e (33.1 m ... read more |
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  Oldest organism with skeleton discovered in Australia A team of paleontologists has discovered the oldest animal with a skeleton. Called Coronacollina acula, the organism is between 560 million and 550 million years old, which places it in the Ediacara ... more | .. |
  UNH research adds to mounting evidence against popular pavement sealcoat A parking lot at the edge of the University of New Hampshire campus has contributed important research to an emerging concern for the environment and human health. The research, detailed in a recent ... more | .. |
  Mystery human fossils put spotlight on China Fossils from two caves in south-west China have revealed a previously unknown Stone Age people and give a rare glimpse of a recent stage of human evolution with startling implications for the early ... more | .. |
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  Giant squids' giant eyes: The better to see hungry whales with It's no surprise that giant and colossal squid are big, but it's their eyes that are the real standouts when it comes to size, with diameters measuring two or three times that of any other animal. N ... more | .. |
  Increase in Arctic shipping poses risk to marine mammals A rapid increase in shipping in the formerly ice-choked waterways of the Arctic poses a significant increase in risk to the region's marine mammals and the local communities that rely on them for fo ... more | .. |
  Lung doctors expect respiratory diseases will worsen with global climate change Worldwide increases in the incidences of asthma, allergies, infectious and cardiovascular diseases will result from a variety of impacts of global climate change, including rising temperatures, wors ... more | .. |
 Columbia Engineering and Penn researchers increase speed of single-molecule measurements As nanotechnology becomes ever more ubiquitous, researchers are using it to make medical diagnostics smaller, faster, and cheaper, in order to better diagnose diseases, learn more about inherited tr ... 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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 Team discovers how bacteria resist a 'Trojan horse' antibiotic A new study describes how bacteria use a previously unknown means to defeat an antibiotic. The researchers found that the bacteria have modified a common "housekeeping" enzyme in a way that enables ... more | .. |
  Hazy shades of life on early Earth A 'see-sawing' atmosphere over 2.5 billion years ago preceded the oxygenation of our planet and the development of complex life on Earth, a new study has shown. Research, led by experts at Newcastle ... more | .. |
 How the Burgess Shale Was Preserved The Burgess Shale of British Columbia is arguably the most important fossil deposit in the world, providing an astounding record of the Cambrian "Explosion," the rapid flowering of complex life from ... more | .. |
 Early Spring Drives Butterfly Population Declines Early snowmelt caused by climate change in the Colorado Rocky Mountains snowballs into two chains of events: a decrease in the number of flowers, which, in turn, decreases available nectar. The resu ... more |
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 New antibiotic could make food safer and cows healthier Food-borne diseases might soon have another warrior to contend with, thanks to a new molecule discovered by chemists at the University of Illinois. The new antibiotic, an analog of the widely used f ... more | .. |
  Mesquite trees displacing Southwestern grasslands As the desert Southwest becomes hotter and drier, semi-arid grasslands are slowly being replaced by a landscape dominated by mesquite trees, such as Prosopis velutina, and other woody shrubs, a team ... more | .. |
  Study Links Past Changes in Monsoon to Major Shifts in Indian Civilizations A fundamental shift in the Indian monsoon has occurred over the last few millennia, from a steady humid monsoon that favored lush vegetation to extended periods of drought, reports a new study led b ... more | .. |
 European grasslands challenge rainforests as the most species-rich spaces on Earth The city of Manila holds the human world record for the most densely populated space and now an international team of ecologists are seeking the natural equivalent, the most species rich area on ear ... more |
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Russia strikes Kyiv after first stage of major prisoner swap
Growing Arctic military presence worries Finland's reindeer herders
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  Glacier-fed river systems threatened by climate change "The knowledge is new and startling. Glacial runoff is cold, nutrient-poor and physically unstable, and therefore, typically species-poor. Traditionally, we have not attached great significance to t ... more | .. |
 Microbiologists can now measure extremely slow life "Mud samples boiled in acid sounds like witchcraft," admits microbiologist Bente Lomstein from the Department of Bioscience when explaining how she and an international group of researchers achieved ... more | .. |
 One solution to global overfishing found A study by the Wildlife Conservation Society, the ARC Centre for Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, and other groups on more than 40 coral reefs in the Indian and Pacific Oceans indicates that "co-m ... more | .. |
 Fertilization by invasive species threatens nutrient-poor ecosystems They can estimate whether native plants in the neighbourhood of invasive species incorporate the nitrogen fixed by the latter. The biologists examined the Sydney Golden Wattle (Acacia longifolia), a ... more |
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 Climate to cost $2 trillion year in damage to oceans: study Greenhouse gases are on track for inflicting costs of nearly $2 trillion annually in damage to the oceans by 2100, according to a Swedish study published on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Twitter health-reporting app sought U.S federal officials have announced a contest for developers to design Web-based applications that use Twitter to track health trends in real time. ... more | .. |
 Did food needs put mankind on two feet? Mankind's earliest ancestors may have started walking on two feet to free up their arms to carry as much food as possible, British and Japanese researchers say. ... more | .. |
  Poweeful quake in Mexico, 11 injured A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck southwest Mexico, ijnjuring 11 people, damaging hundreds of homes and sending panicked residents out onto the streets of the capital. ... 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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 Drought spreads to Brazil, crop yields hit Drought has spread from Argentina and Paraguay to Brazil and is hitting soy yields at a time of concerns that regional economic growth may suffer as pressures mount on commodity prices. ... more | .. |
  Hong Kong election hinges on Chinese whispers Embattled Hong Kong leadership candidate Henry Tang said Wednesday he believed he could still win this weekend's election despite reports that Beijing has switched its support to his rival. ... more | .. |
  Tibet protest monk dies in detention: campaign group A 20-year-old Tibetan Buddhist monk has died in detention after he set himself on fire in a town in southwest China that has become a flashpoint for such protests, a US-based rights group said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Bright is the new black: New York roofs go cool On the hottest day of the New York City summer in 2011, a white roof covering was measured at 42 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than the traditional black roof it was being compared to, according to a st ... more |
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 Rising ocean temperatures harm protected coral reefs Special conservation zones known as marine protected areas provide many direct benefits to fisheries and coral reefs. However, such zones appear to offer limited help to corals in their battle again ... more | .. |
  Devastating 'mini-tornado' hits Australian city A devastating "mini-tornado" tore through the city of Townsville on Tuesday, ripping roofs off houses, snapping trees in half and injuring 13 people as wild weather pounded northern Australia. ... more | .. |
 Philippines' Aquino says miners will have to pay The Philippine government intends to impose far heavier taxes and tougher environmental restrictions on the mining industry, President Benigno Aquino said Tuesday ... more | .. |
  Satellite images identify early human settlements An American archaeologist has used satellite images and a computer program to uncover thousands of ancient human settlements in Syria, according to a research study published Monday. ... more |
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