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Forest mortality and climate change: The big pictureWashington DC (SPX) Sep 14, 2012 Over the past two decades, extensive forest death triggered by hot and dry climatic conditions has been documented on every continent except Antarctica. Forest mortality due to drought and heat stress is expected to increase due to climate change. Although research has focused on isolated incidents of forest mortality, little is known about the potential effects of widespread forest die-offs. A new analysis of the current literature on this topic by Carnegie's William and Leander Anderegg is published S ... read more |
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  100 most threatened species For the first time ever, more than 8,000 scientists from the IUCN Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC) have come together to identify 100 of the most threatened animals, plants and fungi on the pl ... more | .. |
  Researchers Use "Banker Plants" to Help Battle Whitefly Pests A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist is showing growers how to combat whiteflies and other crop pests by using plants as storehouses for predatory insects that can migrate to cash crops ... more | .. |
 Screening technique uncovers five new plant activator compounds A new high-throughput screening technique developed by researchers at the RIKEN Plant Science Center (PSC) has been used to uncover five novel immune-priming compounds in Arabidopsis plants. Discove ... more | .. |
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  Body heat, fermentation drive new drug-delivery 'micropump' Researchers have created a new type of miniature pump activated by body heat that could be used in drug-delivery patches powered by fermentation. The micropump contains Baker's yeast and sugar in a ... more | .. |
  Beacons light up stem cell transformation A novel set of custom-designed "molecular beacons" allows scientists to monitor gene expression in living populations of stem cells as they turn into a specific tissue in real-time. The technology, ... more | .. |
  Measuring mercury levels: Nano-velcro detects water-borne toxic metals A strip of glass covered in hairy nanoparticles can cheaply and conveniently measure mercury, which attacks the nervous system, and other toxic metals in fluids. Researchers at the Swiss Federal Ins ... more | .. |
  Little Ice Age led to migration of island hopping arctic foxes The Little Ice Age allowed a new wave of arctic foxes to colonise Iceland, according to new research. A "bridge" of sea ice appeared during a dip in temperatures between 200 to 500 years ago allowin ... more |
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China first-quarter emissions fell despite rising power demand
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  Researchers Devise More Accurate Method for Predicting Hurricane Activity Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new method for forecasting seasonal hurricane activity that is 15 percent more accurate than previous techniques. "This approach sho ... more | .. |
 Crows react to threats in human-like way Cross a crow and it'll remember you for years. Crows and humans share the ability to recognize faces and associate them with negative, as well as positive, feelings. The way the brain activates duri ... more | .. |
  A minute crustacean invades the red swamp crayfish The small ostracod Ankylocythere sinuosa measures no more than half a millimetre in length and lives on other crayfish. And, Spanish scientists have discovered it for the first time in Europe. The f ... more | .. |
 Santorini sees growth spurt In the south Aegean Sea, the islands of Santorini have been showing signs of unrest for the first time in over half a century. Satellite data confirm that the islands have risen as much as 14 cm sin ... more |
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  Precautions for Tick-Borne Disease Extend "Beyond Lyme" This year's mild winter and early spring were a bonanza for tick populations in the eastern United States. Reports of tick-borne disease rose fast. While Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne d ... more | .. |
  Dutch PM Rutte starts tough task of building coalition Dutch Liberal Prime Minister Mark Rutte began hammering out behind closed doors Thursday the coalition he will lead after receiving a solid mandate to battle Europe's debt crisis. ... more | .. |
 Niger floods and cholera claim 162 lives: UN Floods in Niger have killed 81 people since July, the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs announced Thursday, adding cholera outbreaks have killed a further 81 people. ... more | .. |
 Drought sends US producer prices surging US producer prices jumped 1.7 percent in August, the largest monthly rise in three years, sparked by skyrocketing crop prices due to drought and higher energy costs, fresh data released Thursday showed. ... more |
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Britain, Germany jointly developing missiles: ministers
Kazakhstan denies reports Russia to leave Baikonur spaceport
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 Storm Nadine shifts course, no threat to land: NHC Tropical Storm Nadine shifted course to the northwest Thursday, still packing powerful winds near hurricane strength but posing no threat to land, the US National Hurricane Center said. ... more | .. |
 Guatemala's Volcano of Fire erupts, thousands evacuated Guatemala's Volcano of Fire had its strongest eruption in a decade Thursday, prompting the evacuation of around 1,500 families, officials announced. ... more | .. |
  What a scorcher: California ousts Libya for heat record The world's all-time heat record lowered a tad on Thursday, as the World Meteorological Organisation declared a phenomenal 58 degrees Celsius (136.4 degrees Fahrenheit) recorded in Libya 90 years ago was wrong. ... more | .. |
 Australian lawmakers block super-trawler Australia blocked a controversial super-trawler from fishing in its waters Thursday in a narrow parliamentary vote which forced concessions from the centre-left Labor government. ... more |
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 How Dutch populist Wilders got it all wrong Dutch populist Geert Wilders seems for once to have misjudged voters after his resounding defeat in the Netherlands election but his political career is far from over, analysts said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Giant 'balloon of magma' inflates under Santorini A new survey suggests that the chamber of molten rock beneath Santorini's volcano expanded 10-20 million cubic metres - up to 15 times the size of London's Olympic Stadium - between January 2011 and ... more | .. |
 Salt Seeds Clouds in the Amazon Rainforest It's morning, deep in the Amazon jungle. In the still air innumerable leaves glisten with moisture, and fog drifts through the trees. As the sun rises, clouds appear and float across the forest cano ... more | .. |
  Study Ties Forest "Greenness" in Western U.S. to Snowpack Extent Results of a new study tie forest "greenness" in the western United States to fluctuating year-to-year snowpack extent. The results show that mid-elevation mountain ecosystems are the most sensitive ... more |
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Deploying a practical solution to space debris
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 Former world leaders call on UN Security Council to recognize water as a top concern The world confronts a water crisis with critical implications for peace, political stability and economic development, experts warn in a new report being launched Sept. 11 jointly by the InterAction ... more | .. |
 Droughts are pushing trees to the limit As temperatures rise and droughts become more severe in the Southwest, trees are increasingly up against extremely stressful growing conditions, especially in low to middle elevations, University of ... more | .. |
  Researchers emphasize evaluation of tradeoffs in battling urban heat island A team of researchers from Arizona State University have found that warming resulting from megapolitan expansion is seasonally dependent, with greatest warming occurring during summer and least duri ... more | .. |
 Next generation of advanced climate models needed The nation's collection of climate models should advance substantially to deliver more detailed, smaller scale climate projections, says a new report from the National Research Council. To meet this ... more |
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 NASA Voyage Set to Explore Link Between Sea Saltiness and Climate A NASA-sponsored expedition is set to sail to the North Atlantic's saltiest spot to get a detailed, 3-D picture of how salt content fluctuates in the ocean's upper layers and how these variations ar ... more | .. |
  Norway supplies $168M for famine relief Norway said this week it is donating $168 million to help finance efforts to relieve the food crisis in North Africa's semi-arid Sahel region. ... more | .. |
 Outside View: Damned political parties Were Voltaire alive and asked to comment on the multiple collisions between rhetoric and fact that resonated throughout the presidential nominating conventions in Tampa, Fla., in Charlotte, N.C., he might have quipped: "Lies, damned lies and political parties." ... more | .. |
 Progress claimed in quest to clone mammoth There may be some life left yet for the woolly mammoth, according to controversial research by Russian and South Korean scientists that has raised hopes the extinct animal could be cloned. ... more |
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