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Tree rings go with the flow of the AmazonLeeds UK (SPX) Oct 05, 2012 Tree rings go with the flow of the Amazon University of Leeds-led research has used tree rings from eight cedar trees in Bolivia to unlock a 100-year history of rainfall across the Amazon basin, which contains the world's largest river system. The new study shows that the rings in lowland tropical cedar trees provide a natural archive of data closely related to historic rainfall. Researchers measured the amounts of two different oxygen isotopes trapped in the wood's rings: oxygen-16 and the ... read more |
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  NASA Radar to Study Volcanoes in Alaska, Japan A NASA aircraft carrying a unique 3-D aerial radar developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has left California for a 10-day campaign to study active volcanoes in Alaska and ... more | .. |
  Chloroquine makes comeback to combat malaria Malaria-drug monitoring over the past 30 years has shown that malaria parasites develop resistance to medicine, and the first signs of resistance to the newest drugs have just been observed. A ... more | .. |
 Sea-level study shows signs of things to come Our greenhouse gas emissions up to now have triggered an irreversible warming of the Earth that will cause sea-levels to rise for thousands of years to come, new research has shown. The result ... more | .. |
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  Landsat Satellites Find the 'Sweet Spot' for Crops Farmers are using maps created with free data from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey's Landsat satellites that show locations that are good and not good for growing crops. Farmer Gary Wagner ... more | .. |
 New Fish Species Offers Literal Take on 'Hooking Up' Fishing hooks aren't the only hooks found in east-central Mexican waters. A new species of freshwater fish described by a North Carolina State University researcher has several interesting - and per ... more | .. |
  Homolog of mammalian neocortex found in bird brain A seemingly unique part of the human and mammalian brain is the neocortex, a layered structure on the outer surface of the organ where most higher-order processing is thought to occur. But new resea ... more | .. |
  Egyptian toe tests show they're likely to be the world's oldest prosthetics The results of scientific tests using replicas of two ancient Egyptian artificial toes, including one that was found on the foot of a mummy, suggest that they're likely to be the world's first prost ... more |
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China first-quarter emissions fell despite rising power demand
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 Venice Lagoon research indicates rapid climate change in coastal regions Research undertaken by the University of Southampton and its associates in Venice has revealed that the sea surface temperature (SST) in coastal regions is rising as much as ten times faster than th ... more | .. |
 The water flow of the Amazon River in a natural climate archive Oxygen isotopes in tree rings are an excellent archive of precipitation dynamics in the tropical Amazon region. The precise determination of the ratios of stable oxygen isotopes (18O/16O) proves to ... more | .. |
 Nadine ties Atlantic storm record Tropical Storm Nadine dissolved into a cyclone Thursday morning after 21 days, falling short of the all-time Atlantic Ocean longevity record, forecasters said. ... more | .. |
 African land grabs are 'out of control' The Oxfam charity has called on the World Bank to stop aiding foreign investors, including oil-rich Persian Gulf monarchies that can't grow their own food, buying up vast tracts of farmland in Africa and other developing regions. ... more |
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  Life found in lake frozen for centuries The world's most northerly lake, entombed under a layer of ice 2,400 years ago, is thawing and showing a return of organic life, European researchers say. ... more | .. |
  Last speaker of 'fisherfolk' dialect dies The last native speaker of the Cromarty dialect, spoken by fisherfolk in the far north of Scotland, has died, the BBC reported. ... more | .. |
 Giant spiders to be released in Britain British scientists say they've raised thousands of the country's largest spiders in preparation for reintroduction to their former stronghold in the southeast. ... more | .. |
 Study: Wetlands drove birth of cities Natural wetlands rather than irrigated fields are the fertile ground from which cities first emerged in Mesopotamia, a scientist doing research in Iraq says. ... more |
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Britain, Germany jointly developing missiles: ministers
Kazakhstan denies reports Russia to leave Baikonur spaceport
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  Scrutinizing the women's vote scrutiny If it were decided by polls - 2012 might be called the year of the woman voter. ... more | .. |
Pinera losing Chilean middle class support Chilean President Sebastian Pinera is losing middle class support for his administration in a further setback after the government appeared to minimize the impact of student protests, business data and opinion polls cited in the media say. ... more | .. |
  Council of war gathers for world's biodiversity crisis Efforts to save Earth's natural resources kick into high gear next week amid warnings that as little as a decade remains to fend off a species extinction that also poses a threat to humanity. ... more | .. |
  Climate: Scepticism highest in US, Britain - poll Awareness of climate change is high in many countries, especially the tropics, but in Britain, Japan and the United States many are doubtful about the cause, a poll published on Thursday said. ... more |
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  Hong Kong mourns victims of boat tragedy Flags flew at half mast and leaders observed three minutes of silence Thursday as Hong Kong mourned the 38 victims of a ferry collision that sent shockwaves through the Asian financial centre. ... more | .. |
All 18 children confirmed dead in China landslide Rescuers have found the bodies of all 18 children buried when a landslide engulfed their primary school in China as they made up classes lost due to recent deadly earthquakes, state media said Friday. ... more | .. |
 The chemical memory of seawater Water does not forget, says Prof. Boris Koch, a chemist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association. Irrespective of what happens in the sea: whether t ... more | .. |
  Climate change cripples forests Combine the tree-ring growth record with historic information, climate records and computer-model projections of future climate trends, and you get a grim picture for the future of trees in the sout ... more |
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 New technologies advance livestock genomics for agricultural and biomedical uses New genome editing technologies developed at the University of Minnesota for use on livestock will allow scientists to learn more about human diseases. The genomic technique, known as TALENS, ... more | .. |
 Superweeds linked to rising herbicide use in GM crops A study published this week by Washington State University research professor Charles Benbrook finds that the use of herbicides in the production of three genetically modified herbicide-tolerant cro ... more | .. |
 Too Little Nitrogen May Restrain Carbon Storage Capability Of Plants Plants' ability to absorb increased levels of carbon dioxide in the air may have been overestimated, a new University of Minnesota study shows. The study, published this week in the journal Na ... more | .. |
 Tadpole Shrimp a New Rice Pest in the Midsouth Tadpole shrimp are pests of rice production systems in California and have recently been found impacting Missouri and Arkansas rice fields. The shrimp feed on rice seedlings and uproot them during f ... more |
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 'Tricorder'-like medical device described Technology using acoustic waves to sort cells on a chip may create miniature medical analytic devices like Star Trek's tricorder, researchers at Penn State say. ... more | .. |
 Predatory bacterial crowdsourcing Move forward. High-five your neighbor. Turn around. Repeat. That's the winning formula of one of the world's smallest predators, the soil bacteria Myxococcus xanthus, and a new study by scientists a ... more | .. |
 Honey bees fight back against Varroa The parasitic mite Varroa destructor is a major contributor to the recent mysterious death of honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Geno ... more | .. |
18 school children buried in China landslide Eighteen primary school pupils were buried Thursday when a landslide struck their school in a southwestern Chinese region that was hit by deadly earthquakes last month, state media said. ... more |
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