 Solar games at Paranal May 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Cerro Paranal, home of ESO's Very Large Telescope, is certainly one of the best astronomical sites on the planet. Stunning images, obtained by ESO staff at Paranal, of the green and blue flashes, as well as ... | |
 'Dynamic duo' develops framework for Earth's inaccessible interior May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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A new model of inner Earth constructed by Arizona State University researchers pulls past information and hypotheses into a coherent story to clarify mantle motion. | |
 Oxygen depletion: A new form of ocean habitat loss May 01, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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An international team of physical oceanographers including a researcher from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has discovered that oxygen-poor regions of tropical oceans are expanding as ... | |
 Geochemists challenge key theory regarding Earth's formation May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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Working with colleagues from NASA, a Florida State University researcher has published a paper that calls into question three decades of conventional wisdom regarding some of the physical processes that helped ... | |
 '4-D' ionosphere map helps flyers, soldiers, ham radio operators April 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Today, at the Space Weather Workshop in Boulder, Colo., NASA-funded researchers released to the general public a new “4D” live model of Earth’s ionosphere. Without leaving home, anyone can fly through the ... | |
 Climate modelers see modern echo in '30s Dust Bowl April 30, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Climate scientists using computer models to simulate the 1930s Dust Bowl on the U.S Great Plains have found that dust raised by farmers probably amplified and spread a natural drop in rainfall, turning an ... | |
 Scientists discover new ocean current April 30, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a new climate pattern called the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation. This new pattern explains, for the first time, changes in the water that are ... | |
 Rocks under the northern ocean are found to resemble ones far south April 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Scientists probing volcanic rocks from deep under the frozen surface of the Arctic Ocean have discovered a special geochemical signature until now found only in the southern hemisphere. The rocks were dredged ... | |
 CU-Boulder researchers forecast 3-in-5 chance of record low Arctic sea ice in 2008 April 30, 2008 | User rating: 2.3 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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New University of Colorado at Boulder calculations indicate the record low minimum extent of sea ice across the Arctic last September has a three-in-five chance of being shattered again in 2008 because of ... | |
How deep is Europe? April 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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The Earth's crust is, on global average around 40 kilometres deep. In relation to the total diameter of the Earth with approx. 12800 kilometres this appears to be rather shallow, but precisely these upper kilometres of the ... | |
Toxic Metal Cadmium Can Enter Great Lakes Food Chain Through Algae April 29, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Some algae from the Great Lakes can use cadmium for nutritional requirements. A recent study published in the Journal of Great Lakes Research reports that algae collected from lakes Erie and Ontario can use cadmium, a known ... | |
Scientists head to warming Alaska on ice core expedition April 29, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The state of Alaska has the dubious distinction of leading the lower 48 in the effects of a warming climate. Small villages are slipping into the sea due to coastal erosion, soggy permafrost is cracking buildings and trapping ... | |
Before fossil fuels, Earth's minerals kept CO2 in check April 29, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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Over millions of years carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have been moderated by a finely-tuned natural feedback system— a system that human emissions have recently overwhelmed. A joint University of Hawaii / Carnegie ... | |
'New' Ancient Antarctic Sediment Reveals Climate Change History April 28, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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Recent additions to the premier collection of Southern Ocean sediment cores at Florida State University’s Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility will give international scientists a close-up look at fluctuations that ... | |
 Chalk one up for coccolithophores April 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Scientists have feared that gradual acidification of the world's oceans would wreak havoc with organisms that build protective outer shells. But a new finding shows at least three species of coccolithophores ... | |
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