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Methane-eating Microbes Can Use Iron And Manganese Oxides To 'Breathe'
Iron and manganese
compounds, in addition to
sulfate, may play an
important role in converting
methane to carbon dioxide
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Beyond Carbon Dioxide: Growing Importance Of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) In Climate Warming
Some of the substances that
are helping to avert the
destruction of the ozone
layer could increasingly
contribute to climate
... > full story
Explosive Growth Of Life On Earth Fueled By Early Greening Of Planet
Earth's 4.5-billion-year
history is filled with
several turning points but
one of the biggest is the
Cambrian explosion of life,
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Arctic Climate Under Greenhouse Conditions In The Late Cretaceous
New evidence for ice-free
summers with intermittent
winter sea ice in the Arctic
Ocean during the Late
Cretaceous -- a period of
greenhouse conditions --
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Experts Call For Local And Regional Control Of Sites For Radioactive Waste
July 9, 2009 — The withdrawal of Nevada's Yucca Mountain as a potential nuclear waste repository has reopened the debate over how and where to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high-level nuclear ... > full story -
New NASA Satellite Survey Reveals Dramatic Arctic Sea Ice Thinning
July 8, 2009 — Arctic sea ice thinned dramatically between the winters of 2004 and 2008, with thin seasonal ice replacing thick older ice as the dominant type for the first time on record. The new results, based on ... > full story -
Massive Imbalances Found In Global Fertilizer Use, Resulting In Malnourishment In Some Areas And Serious Pollution Problems In Others
July 8, 2009 — A scientific study of three corn-growing regions of the world documents massive imbalances in nitrogen fertilizer use, resulting in malnourishment in some areas and serious pollution problems in ... > full story -
Close Relationship Between Past Warming And Sea-level Rise
July 7, 2009 — Scientists have reconstructed sea-level fluctuations over the last 520,000 years. Comparison of this record with data on global climate and CO2 levels from Antarctic ice cores suggests that even ... > full story -
Oceanography: Low Summer Iron Availability Limits Biological Production In The High-latitude North Atlantic
July 7, 2009 — Scientists have demonstrated an unexpected role of iron in regulating biological production in the high-latitude North Atlantic. Their findings have important implications for our understanding of ... > full story -
Coralline Algae In The Mediterranean Lost Their Tropical Element Between 5 And 7 Million Years Ago
July 7, 2009 — Scientists have studied the coralline algae fossils that lived on the last coral reefs of the Mediterranean Sea between 7.24 and 5.3 million years ago. Mediterranean algae and coral reefs began to ... > full story -
Ancient Drought And Rapid Cooling Drastically Altered Climate
July 6, 2009 — Two abrupt and drastic climate events, 700 years apart and more than 45 centuries ago, are teasing scientists who are now trying to use ancient records to predict future world climate. The events -- ... > full story -
Natural Deep Earth Pump Fuels Earthquakes And Ore
July 6, 2009 — For the first time scientists have discovered the presence of a natural deep earth pump that is a crucial element in the formation of ore deposits and ... > full story -
World's First 'Self-Watering' Desert Plant: Desert Rhubarb
July 5, 2009 — Researchers have managed to make out the "self-irrigating" mechanism of the desert rhubarb, which enables it to harvest 16 times the amount of water than otherwise expected for a plant in this region ... > full story -
New Type Of El Nino Could Mean More Hurricanes Make Landfall
July 3, 2009 — A new study suggests that the form of El Nino may be changing potentially causing not only a greater number of hurricanes than in average years, but also a greater chance of hurricanes making ... > full story
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