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  NASA Satellite Tracks Severity of African Drought

  August 1, 2011 — Northeast Africa continues to reel from the effects of the worst drought to strike the region in ... > full story
• Space Telescopes
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  NASA
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  Getting Ready for ALMA’s First Scientific Observations

  July 28, 2011 — The first European antenna for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has reached new heights, having been transported to the observatory’s Array Operations Site (AOS) on 27 ... > full story
• Endangered Plants
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  Charles Darwin
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  Newly Discovered Gene Sheds Light on the Evolution of Life on Earth

  July 25, 2011 — A chance discovery of a genetic mutation in wild barley that grows in Israel's Judean Desert has led to an international study deciphering evolution of life on ... > full story
• Nature
  Birds
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  Some Desert Birds Less Affected by Wildfires and Climate Change

  July 19, 2011 — A new study has found that some bird species in the desert southwest are less affected, and in some cases positively influenced, by widespread fire through their habitat. In fact, the researchers say ... > full story
• Trees
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  The Tallest Tree in All the Land

  July 18, 2011 — Knowing how tall trees can grow in any given region can give ecologists a wealth of information, from the potential density of a forest and size of its tree canopy to the amount of carbon stored in ... > full story
• New Species
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  Rockin' Tortoises: A 150-Year-Old New Species

  June 28, 2011 — Researchers investigated a desert tortoise from the United States Southwest and northwestern Mexico. What was thought to be a simple problem in species identification turned out to be a very complex ... > full story
• Nature of Water
  Graphene
  Nuclear Energy
  Materials Science
  Energy Policy
  Nanotechnology
   

  'Super Sand' for Better Purification of Drinking Water

  June 22, 2011 — Scientists have developed a way to transform ordinary sand -- a mainstay filter material used to purify drinking water throughout the world -- into a "super sand" with five times the filtering ... > full story
• Water
  Nature of Water
  Recycling and Waste
  Energy Technology
  Drought Research
  Pollution
   

  Electrical Water Detection

  June 22, 2011 — A quick and easy way to detect groundwater in semi-arid hard rock areas that is also economical could improve the siting of borewells to improve clean water supply in the developing ... > full story
• Storms
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  Atmosphere
   
  

  New Data Reveals How Storms Are Triggered in the Sahel

  June 21, 2011 — In the Sahel, the frequency of storms increases when soil moisture varies over a few kilometers. Such contrasts cause air circulation between dry and humid areas, contributing to the development of ... > full story
• Fish
  Marine Biology
  Wild Animals
  Animals
  Extinction
  Ancient Civilizations
   
  

  Battle Scars Found on an Ancient Sea Monster

  May 4, 2011 — Scars on the jaw of a 120-million-year-old marine reptile suggest that life might not have been easy in the ancient polar oceans. The healed bite wounds were probably made by a member of the same ... > full story

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