Has global warming research misinterpreted cloud behavior? June 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 51 vote(s)
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Climate experts agree that the seriousness of manmade global warming depends greatly upon how clouds in the climate system respond to the small warming tendency from the extra carbon dioxide mankind produces. | |
NASA to Attempt Historic Solar Sail Deployment June 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 53 vote(s)
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"Hold your hands out to the sun. What do you feel? Heat, of course. But there's pressure as well – though you've never noticed it, because it's so tiny. Over the area of your hands, it only comes to about a millionth of an ... | |
 Wilkins Ice Shelf hanging by its last thread July 10, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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The Wilkins Ice Shelf is experiencing further disintegration that is threatening the collapse of the ice bridge connecting the shelf to Charcot Island. Since the connection to the island in the image centre ... | |
 Arctic 'holds 90bln barrels of oil, mostly offshore' July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Within the Arctic circle there are 90 billion barrels of oil and vast quantities of natural gas waiting to be tapped, most of it offshore, the government-run US Geological Survey said. | |
 Supercomputers offer new explanation of Tunguska disaster December 18, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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The stunning amount of forest devastation at Tunguska, a century ago in Siberia, may have been caused by an asteroid only a fraction as large as previously published estimates, Sandia supercomputer simulations ... | |
Scientists debate the accuracy of Al Gore's documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth' April 14, 2008 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 49 vote(s)
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There is no question that Al Gore’s 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth is a powerful example of how scientific knowledge can be communicated to a lay audience. What is up for debate is whether it accurately presents ... | |
 Large methane release could cause abrupt climate change as happened 635 million years ago May 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 51 vote(s)
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An abrupt release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, about 635 million years ago from ice sheets that then extended to Earth’s low latitudes caused a dramatic shift in climate, triggering a series of events ... | |
 Black holes have simple feeding habits June 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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The biggest black holes may feed just like the smallest ones, according to data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based telescopes. This discovery supports the implication of Einstein's relativity ... | |
Ocean temperatures and sea level increases 50 percent higher than previously estimated June 18, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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New research suggests that ocean temperature and associated sea level increases between 1961 and 2003 were 50 percent larger than estimated in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.
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Surprisingly rapid changes in the Earth's core discovered July 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 65 vote(s)
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In a recent paper published in Nature Geoscience, the geophysicist Mioara MANDEA from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam and her Danish colleague Nils OLSEN from the National Space Institute/DTU ... | |
 As planet swelters, are algae unlikely saviour? July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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As the world mulls over the conundrum of how to satisfy a seemingly endless appetite for energy and still slash greenhouse gas emissions, researchers have stumbled upon an unexpected hero: algae. | |
The sun could be having a 15% or 20% effect on climate change July 18, 2008 | User rating: 2.9 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Global warming is mainly caused by greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activities; however, current climatic variations may be affected “around 15% or 20%” by solar activity, according to the researcher Manuel Vázquez ... | |
 Scientists solve 30-year-old aurora borealis mystery July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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UCLA space scientists and colleagues have identified the mechanism that triggers substorms in space; wreaks havoc on satellites, power grids and communications systems; and leads to the explosive release of ... | |
 Iran's space agency says it will send man to space August 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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(AP) -- State TV says Iran's space agency aims to send an astronaut to space within 10 years. | |
 Hot Cyclones Churn at Both Ends of Saturn January 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Despite more than a decade of winter darkness, Saturn's north pole is home to an unexpected hot spot remarkably similar to one at the planet's sunny south pole. The source of its heat is a mystery. Now, the ... | |
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