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Corals 'could survive a more acidic ocean'Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Apr 10, 2012 Corals may be better placed to cope with the gradual acidification of the world's oceans than previously thought - giving rise to hopes that coral reefs might escape climatic devastation. In new research published in the journal Nature Climate Change, an international scientific team has identified a powerful internal mechanism that could enable some corals and their symbiotic algae to counter the adverse impact of a more acidic ocean. As humans release ever-larger amounts of carbon dioxide into t ... read more |
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  Black carbon ranked number two climate pollutant by US EPA The US Environmental Protection Agency concluded in a report to Congress that targeted strategies to reduce black carbon "can be expected to provide climate benefits within the next several decades, ... more | .. |
  First targeted and programmable nanomedicine to show clinical antitumor effects published BIND Biosciences has published preclinical and clinical data in Science Translational Medicine showing promising effects in solid tumors and successful clinical translation of BIND-014, the first ta ... more | .. |
  Sampling the Pacific for signs of Fukushima An international research team is reporting the results of a research cruise they organized to study the amount, spread, and impacts of radiation released into the ocean from the tsunami-crippled re ... more | .. |
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  Ground breaking book reveals 'what it's like to be a bird' Featuring a chapter focussing on each sense - including vision, smell, touch, taste, and magnetic sense - Bird Sense, by Professor Tim Birkhead of the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, expand ... more | .. |
 Darwin in the genome A current controversy raging in evolutionary biology is about whether adaptation to new environments is the result of many genes, each of relatively small effect, or just a few genes of large effect ... more | .. |
 Task force recommends reducing global harvest of "forage fish" A task force that conducted one of the most comprehensive analyses of global "forage fish" populations issued its report this week, which strongly recommends implementing more conservative catch lim ... more | .. |
  Climate model to predict malaria outbreaks in India Scientists from the University of Liverpool are working with computer modelling specialists in India to predict areas of the country that are at most risk of malaria outbreaks, following changes in ... more |
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Trump signs orders to boost US nuclear energy
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 Scientists study the catalytic reactions used by plants to split oxygen from water Splitting hydrogen and oxygen from water using conventional electrolysis techniques requires considerable amounts of electrical energy. But green plants produce oxygen from water efficiently using a ... more | .. |
 A University of Tennessee professor's hypothesis may be game changer for evolutionary theory A new hypothesis posed by a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, associate professor and colleagues could be a game changer in the evolution arena. The hypothesis suggests some species are surviving ... more | .. |
  Comparing growth around Yellowstone, Glacier and other national parks The land around Yellowstone and Glacier national parks might look like it's filling up with people and houses, but it's nothing compared to the rate of development around some other U.S. national pa ... more | .. |
  Walker's World: French abstainers decide And the winner is ... the don't cares. The new French fear is that more voters abstain than vote for either of the two main candidates in the presidential elections just two weeks away. ... more |
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  China plans to build research icebreaker China says it plans for a new icebreaker, now in the design stage, to be ready to begin polar research operations in 2014. ... more | .. |
  Texas stem-cell plan comes under fire Proposed stem-cell regulations in Texas would make the experimental therapy commercially available before it's been proven safe and effective, critics say. ... more | .. |
 Egypt army 'neutral' towards candidates for president Egypt's ruling military is not fielding a candidate in next month's presidential election, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) chief Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi said on Monday. ... more | .. |
  March was warmest in US on record: US agency The United States has experienced the warmest March on record dating back to 1895 due to unusually high temperatures in the eastern two-thirds of the nation, federal scientists said on Monday. ... 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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 Herbal remedy blamed for high cancer rate in Taiwan: study A toxic ingredient in a popular herbal remedy is linked to more than half of all cases of urinary tract cancer in Taiwan where use of traditional medicine is widespread, said a US study Monday. ... more | .. |
 Indonesia's Aceh vote tests fragile peace Indonesia's only province ruled by Islamic law went to the polls Monday to elect its powerful governor, testing a fragile peace following a 30-year war by separatist rebels. ... more | .. |
  Weather delays Pakistan avalanche recovery equipment Bad weather on Monday hampered efforts to boost the search for 135 people buried in an avalanche at a Pakistani army camp, as a US team of high altitude specialists arrived in the country to help. ... more | .. |
 Chile navy rescues four from Antarctic ship Four Brazilians filming a documentary off the Antarctic coast were rescued by the Chilean navy after their ship became stuck in the ice, Chilean media said Monday. ... more |
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 Colombia issues Nevado del Ruiz volcano warning Colombia on Sunday issued a warning for areas crossed by rivers that pass through the Nevado del Ruiz volcano area, amid heavy rains and concern that an eruption could be in the works. ... more | .. |
Islamic police hold sway in Indonesia's Aceh In Indonesia's only province ruled by strict Islamic law, the sight of the "morals police" prompts women to quickly adjust their headscarves and male and female companions to move apart. ... more | .. |
  Exiled Tiananmen leaders ask to visit China The exiled leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement and other Chinese dissidents have asked the government to allow them to visit their homeland, a rights group said. ... more | .. |
  ONR Grant Expands Research of Typhoons, Monsoons, Internal Waves in Asia-Pacific The University of Miami (UM) announced that it has received a grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research to expand its use of SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) in the Asia-Pacific Region. The new $1. ... 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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 China makes public satellite data products The State Oceanic Administration (SOA) on Friday gave the public access to data products of the oceanic surveying satellite Haiyang-2, which monitors maritime environment and extreme weather. ... more | .. |
  Titanic disaster 'unlikely to happen again' World-leading ship science expert, Professor Ajit Shenoi, says that a seafaring tragedy on the scale of the Titanic disaster is unlikely to happen again. Professor Shenoi, who is the Director ... more | .. |
 Pollen can protect mahogany from extinction New research from the University of Adelaide could help protect one of the world's most globally threatened tree species - the big leaf mahogany - from extinction. Big leaf mahogany (Swietenia macro ... more | .. |
 Dartmouth scientists track radioactive iodine from Japan nuclear reactor meltdown Radioactive iodine found by Dartmouth researchers in the local New Hampshire environment is a direct consequence of a nuclear reactor's explosion and meltdown half a world away, says Joshua Landis, ... more |
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  Fertilizer use responsible for increase in nitrous oxide in atmosphere University of California, Berkeley, chemists have found a smoking gun proving that increased fertilizer use over the past 50 years is responsible for a dramatic rise in atmospheric nitrous oxide, wh ... more | .. |
 Volcanic plumbing exposed Two new studies into the "plumbing systems" that lie under volcanoes could bring scientists closer to predicting large eruptions. International teams of researchers, led by the University of Leeds, ... more | .. |
 Species explorers propose steps to map biosphere An ambitious goal to describe 10 million species in less than 50 years is achievable and necessary to sustain Earth's biodiversity, according to an international group of 39 scientists, scholars and ... more | .. |
  Scientists Find Slow Subsidence of Earth's Crust Beneath the Mississippi Delta The Earth's crust beneath the Mississippi Delta sinks at a much slower rate than what had been assumed. That's one of the results geoscientists report in a paper published in the journal Earth and P ... more |
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