www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Latest Earth News. Typhoon Fengshun Batters Philippines. As Americans in the midwest continue their battle Source: sciencemode.com Earth - news tag - SoftpediaLatest News Softpedia Software Internet Science DNA and RNA Came from Space: For some reason or another, all of us like to believe that Earth is special - after all, [...]
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | yesterday
DPA Berlin, July 25 (DPA) Barack Obama called for a revived alliance between the US and Europe in countering the challenges and threats facing the world, whether from terrorism, climate change or nuclear proliferation. “We cannot afford to be divided,” the Democratic Party presidential hopeful said Thursday, speaking to an audience of some 200,000, the largest [...]
Science Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Virologist reveals how marine viruses exert a huge influence on food chains and can even influence the weather
Greenpeace - Making Waves (Free subscription) | yesterday
I've just been reading an interesting article in Tuesday's English-language Japan Times . Journalist Bharti Legros eats some whale meat at a restaurant in Shibuya, Tokyo, but then explores the different aspects of the whaling issue - including quotes from our own Junichi (one of the Tokyo 2, recently detained for uncovering a whale meat scandal) and Wakao, both from the Greenpeace Japan office. I'd...
Science Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Magma thought to fuel "hotspots" like Iceland and Hawaii may not form a mushrooming plume, but rather a more patchy, slow-moving structure
Science Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ecologists calculate that a change in diet could bring massive energy savings and decrease the pressure on the environment
Astroblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Image Source IPPC figure SPM-2 . Chris Kenny has another column on climate change in this weeks Adelaide Advertiser. Unfortunately, once again he fails to understand the science (or how science works) Look at the graph to the left, then read this quote from Chris Kenny's column. It is also a fact to say that the climate is always changing. And that no one has yet proved a link between human activities...
News Hounds (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Fox Special Report “Grapevine” seems to be in the business of reinforcing the notion that if there isn’t global warming, there’s global warming “skepticism.” In just the past week, the “Grapevine” reported on a “scientist” who, in an article in an Australian Murdoch owned paper, supposedly is dealing a “blow” to greenhouse gas theory. In fact, this “blower” is part of the insane clown posse of...
Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday
New Britain's Rabaul Volcano released a plume in late July 2008.
Physorg (Free subscription) | yesterday
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 a recent issue of the journal Geology.
Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Scientists have created an instrument designed to help determine the shapes and sizes of tiny ice crystals typical of those found in high-altitude clouds, down to the micron level, and data produced using this instrument will likely help improve computer models used to predict climate change. (Optical Society of America press release)
Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Research at the University of Liverpool has found how Saharan dust storms help sustain life over extensive regions of the North Atlantic Ocean. (University of Liverpool press release)
Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Geoscientists have come up with a new explanation for the formation of monsoons, proposing an overhaul of a theory about the cause of the seasonal pattern of heavy winds and rainfall that essentially had held firm for more than 300 years. (California Institute of Technology press release)
Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The May 12 Sichuan earthquake in China was unexpectedly large, but topographic analysis can help evaluate other, similar fault areas for seismic risk, according to geologists. (Pennsylvania State University press release)
Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday
If a warmer Wisconsin climate causes some northern tree species to disappear in the future, it's easy to imagine that southern species will just expand their range northward as soon as the conditions suit them. (University of Wisconsin-Madison press release)
