The sun could be having a 15% or 20% effect on climate change July 18, 2008 | User rating: 2.8 / 5 after 26 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 ... | |
 Arctic 'holds 90bln barrels of oil, mostly offshore' 13 hours ago | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 7 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. | |
 N.M. cavers chart unique 'snowy' river of crystals 21 hours ago | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Hundreds of feet beneath Earth's surface, a few seasoned cave explorers venture where no human has set foot. Their headlamps illuminate mud-covered walls, gypsum crystals and mineral deposits. The ... | |
Study: Typhoons bury tons of carbon in the oceans 14 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 3
A single typhoon in Taiwan buries as much carbon in the ocean -- in the form of sediment -- as all the other rains in that country all year long combined. That's the finding of an Ohio State University study published in ... | |
 NSF awards grant to track 'space weather' in Earth's near-space environment July 21, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Global and real-time "space weather" observations of near-Earth space--and the solar storms that can knock out electric power grids--is about to happen for the first time, thanks to funding from the National ... | |
Amazon powers tropical ocean's carbon sink July 21, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Nutrients from the Amazon River spread well beyond the continental shelf and drive carbon capture in the deep ocean, according to the authors of a multi-year study. | |
 Scientists break record by finding northernmost hydrothermal vent field 13 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Well inside the Arctic Circle, scientists have found black smoker vents farther north than anyone has ever seen before. The cluster of five vents – one towering nearly four stories in height – are venting ... | |
 Russian scientists begin trial exploration of world's deepest lake 13 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Russian scientists leading a submarine expedition to probe the world's deepest lake on Thursday carried out test dives ahead of the start of the operation next week, reports said. | |
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