Earth Science

                   

Northern oil riches raise fears

thestar.com     4 hrs ago   65 related          

National Affairs Writer A report assessing for the first time the magnitude of reserves of oil and natural gas north of the Arctic Circle is raising concerns among Canadian environmentalists. In a forecast released yesterday,...                

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Dr. Paul Spudis Announced as Chief Scientist of Odyssey Moon Limited, the First Official...

pr.com     2 hrs ago   1 related          

Dr. Paul D. Spudis has been named Chief Scientist of Odyssey Moon Limited, the first official contender for the $30M Google Lunar X PRIZE. Dr. Spudis is a prominent scientist in the international lunar community and served as...                

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Mining company 'likely to blame' for deadly volcano (ABC)

yahoo.com     10 hrs ago   1 related          

A devastating Indonesian mud volcano could not have been caused by a remote earthquake, researchers have said. Instead, they say, the Lusi eruption that began more than two years ago was most likely caused by the mining company...                

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Threatened Mexican Mangroves Have High Economic Value

digitaljournal.com     1 hr ago          

Posted 4 min ago by Bob Ewing in Environment Mangrove destruction not only comes with ecological cost, but monetary as well: $37,500 per hectare each year, researchers say. Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at...                

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Climate Re-Education Program

freerepublic.com     12 hrs ago   9 related          

A reader sent me a heads-up to an article in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ($, abstract here) titled "Climate Change Education and the Ecological Footprint". The authors express concern that non-science...                

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Magnetic measurement tools attract attention

edn.com     5 hrs ago          

Measuring magnetic fields requires specialized sensors and knowledge of physics and electronics. You can use a variety of instruments, including gaussmeters, teslameters, fluxmeters, and magnetometers, to measure magnetism, and...                

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Anthropogenic Land Cover Change During the Last Millennium and its Effects on Climate

mit.edu     1 hr ago          

Speaker: Julia Pongratz, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Hamburg, Germany Hydrology Seminar Series The purpose of the Parsons Lab Hydrology Seminar is to provide a forum for students, research scientists and faculty in...                

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ACPD: Airborne measurement of OH reactivity during INTEX-B

sref.org     4 hrs ago          

Airborne measurement of OH reactivity during INTEX-B, J. Mao, X. Ren, W. H. Brune, J. R. Olson, J. H. Crawford, A. Fried, L. G. Huey, R. C. Cohen, B. Heikes, H. B. Singh, D. R. Blake, G. W. Sachse, G. S. Diskin, S. R. Hall, and...                

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Journey to the Center of the Earth -New Discoveries Revise Theories of the Planet

dailygalaxy.com     5 hrs ago          

The Earth is alone among the planets of our solar system in having plate tectonics. Venus, a near twin of our planet in size and density, has no tectonic activity. According to Harvard scientists, habitable worlds are most...                

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Unique fossil discovery shows Antarctic was once much warmer

brightsurf.com     22 hrs ago   17 related          

A new fossil discovery- the first of its kind from the whole of the Antarctic continent- provides scientists with new evidence to support the theory that the polar region was once much warmer. The discovery by an international...                

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