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Scientists Core Into California's Clear Lake to Explore Past Climate Change
May 3, 2012 — One of the oldest lakes in the world, Clear Lake in northern California has deep sediments that contain a record of the climate and local plants and animals going back perhaps 500,000 years. ... > full story -
Stalagmite Research Suggests Earth Has Two Modes of Responding to Change
May 3, 2012 — By analyzing stalagmites, a team of researchers has determined that the climate signature in the tropics through four glacial cycles looks different in some ways and similar in others when compared ... > full story -
Increasing Speed of Greenland Glaciers Gives New Insight for Rising Sea Level
May 3, 2012 — Changes in the speed that ice travels in more than 200 outlet glaciers indicates that Greenland's contribution to rising sea level in the 21st century might be significantly less than the upper ... > full story -
Marine Food Chain Becomes Clearer With New Revelations About Prey Distribution
May 2, 2012 — A new study has found that each step of the marine food chain is clearly controlled by the trophic level below it -- and the driving factor influencing that relationship is not the abundance of prey, ... > full story -
Arctic Sea-Ice Loss Didn't Happen by Chance
May 2, 2012 — The ongoing rapid retreat of Arctic sea ice is often interpreted as the canary in the mine for anthropogenic climate change. In a new study, scientists have now systematically examined the validity ... > full story -
Were Dinosaurs Undergoing Long-Term Decline Before Mass Extinction?
May 1, 2012 — Despite years of intensive research about the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs about 65.5 million years ago, a fundamental question remains: Were dinosaurs already undergoing a long-term decline ... > full story -
Ireland's Aran Islands: Old Maps and Dead Clams Help Solve Coastal Boulder Mystery
April 30, 2012 — Perched atop the sheer coastal cliffs of Ireland's Aran Islands, ridges of giant boulders have puzzled geologists for years. What forces could have torn these rocks from the cliff edges high above ... > full story -
Antarctic Albatross Displays Shift in Breeding Habits
April 30, 2012 — A new study of the wandering albatross -- one of the largest birds on Earth -- has shown that some of the birds are breeding earlier in the season compared with 30 years ... > full story -
Pacific Islands on Equator May Become Refuge for Corals in a Warming Climate Due to Changes in Ocean Currents
April 29, 2012 — Scientists have predicted that ocean temperatures will rise in the equatorial Pacific by the end of the century, wreaking havoc on coral reef ecosystems. But a new study shows that climate change ... > full storyMore: -
NASA's Landsat Satellites See Texas Crop Circles -- Of the Irrigation Kind
April 28, 2012 — A water-rich polka dot pattern takes over the traditional rectangular patchwork of fields in a series of 40 years of Landsat images. In the dry Texas panhandle near the town of Dalhart, this ... > full story -
Researchers Combat Global Disease With a Cell Phone, Google Maps and a Lot of Ingenuity
April 27, 2012 — Researchers have developed a compact and cost-effective RDT reader platform to combine digital reading of all existing rapid-diagnostic-tests. The team's new reader is installed on a cell phone that ... > full story -
Scientists Provide First Large-Scale Estimate of Reef Shark Losses in the Pacific Ocean
April 27, 2012 — First study to provide estimates of reef shark losses in the Pacific Ocean are sobering. Researchers noted the enormous detrimental effect that humans have on reef ... > full story
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