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Finland's Martti Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize

Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to build a lasting peace from Africa and Asia to Europe and the Middle East. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it honored Ahtisaari for...

AMS Annual Meeting Starts January 11.

The AMS’ 89th Annual Meeting gets underway, January 11, 2009 in Phoenix. The program is still being finalized but some preliminary details are online at http://www.ametsoc.org/MEET/annual/index.html Check back often for...

Mammals Aren’t Loners in Extinction Threat

Bog Turtle, Glyptemys muhlenbergi Earlier this week, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature reported that 25 percent of the world’s mammal species are at risk of extinction in our lifetimes due to habitat...

Chinese dissidents miss out on Nobel peace prize

OSLO, Norway — Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday, but this year the news was as much about who didn't get the award. Critics say the secretive, five-member panel missed a golden...

New estimates on global warming

The global climate could warm by 2.5 degrees F. by the end of the century, even if countries undertake stringent efforts to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, according to a new study from a team of climate scientists in the United...

Climate change, vulnerability and adaptation

Authors: S. Eriksen; K. O'Brian; L. Rosentrater Publisher: Global Environmental Change and Human Security International Project Office , 2008 In its most recent assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported...

Nobel City

The Nobel Prize shelf at the University of California San Diego is getting impressively crowded. Roger Tsien, a 56-year-old professor of pharmacology, chemistry and biochemistry, is the latest laureate, winning the Nobel...

Making waves

More than 8,000 conservationists and policy makers are in Barcelona, Spain, for the IUCN World Conservation Congress. At a seminar here on ocean geoengineering, as the approach is known, Ms Leinen told us of her company's plans...

A list of Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1980

2008: Martti Ahtisaari 2007: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore, 2006: Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank 2005: International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, 2004: Wangari Maathai 2003: Shirin Ebadi 2002:...

Titanic Discoverer to Speak at Summit

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Ocean explorer Robert Ballard, PhD, known most recently for his discovery of the HMS Titanic, will speak at the Coastal Cities Summit banquet on Nov. 20. The Coastal Cities Summit, from Nov. 17-20 in St. Petersburg, Fla., will...

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