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Scientists Endure Arctic For Last Campaign Prior To CryoSat-2 Launch
terradaily.com 1 hr ago 9 related
Paris, France (ESA) May 12, 2008 - An international group of scientists has swapped their comfortable offices for one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet to carry out a challenging field campaign that is seen as the key to ensuring the data delivered by ESA's ice mission CryoSat...
EcoSonology - MOV... - San Francisco, CA
brownpapertickets.com 3 hrs ago
Begins on Aug 16, 2008 8:00 PM ... Intersection For the Arts 446 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA Moving Field and Climate Sound Landscapes. Andrea Polli (New York, NY); Music d'Ombre (Shadow Music) - Jonny Farrow and Edmund Mooney (New York, NY) Bringing our ecological...
NASA looks to private sector help for next shuttle
thestar.com.my 13 hrs ago 2 related
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - NASA wants the private sector to help develop the next generation of shuttle craft to serve the International Space Station and is providing $500 million in "seed" money to kick start work, its chief said on Sunday. ... NASA Administrator Michael...
Nathaniel Rich shows rich storytelling skills in 'Mayor's Tongue'
signonsandiego.com 18 hrs ago
'The Mayor's Tongue” is a goofy, playful, highly intellectual novel about serious subjects – the failure of language, for one, and how we cope with that failure in order to keep ourselves sane. ... The novel consists of vaguely parallel narratives: Two men – strangers to...
New NASA research shows inadequacy of Rudd's greenhouse targets
greenleft.org.au 19 hrs ago
Ground-breaking new research findings posted on the internet in April have confirmed what many scientists and climate activists have already concluded — that the goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions embraced by the European Union and Australia’s Labor government are gravely inadequate.
The‘plantsman': Horticulturalist Daniel Hinkley has gone from his Heronswood garden to Windcliff
thenewstribune.com 20 hrs ago 2 related
Don't equate him with movie swashbuckler Indiana Jones. ... Despite horticulturist Daniel Hinkley's penchant for traveling to remote corners of the Earth, braving the Australian Outback or trekking the mountains of Nepal in pursuit of seeds from exotic plants, Hinkley...
World's Cleanest Air
suite101.com yesterday
One website has used data from local governments to point out the cities with the greatest air quality. Meanwhile, the AML has a list with the dirtiest air in the US. ... Certain Regions Using Air Quality as Tourism Perk One website has used data from local governments to...
Online mapping extreme
courier-journal.com yesterday
Online photo albums I prepared for family and friends weren't capturing the essence of my travels. Then a light bulb clicked as I was exploring Google Earth: How about a marriage of the two? ... Satellite images, embedded photos, user comments enhance Google Earth's...
Fossils fuel the imagination
enquirer.com yesterday
East Tennessee State University developed a paleontology program that is one of the largest in the country. ... According to Jeanne Zavada, the museum's director, "Not a day goes by that we don't have something new. ... We have to challenge our minds to come up with the...
Mars probe fit to peek under Earth's ice sheets
mathaba.net yesterday
Mars Express wields a 131-foot (40-meter) long MARSIS antenna boom that dwarfs the spacecraft's six-foot wide span, like a giant whiplash antenna on a tiny car. more... | PDA ... Mars Express wields a 131-foot (40-meter) long MARSIS antenna boom that dwarfs the...