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Road Salt Affects Mitigation Wetlands
May 24, 2005 Sacrificing one wetland for the sake of five others may be the way to go when planning constructed wetlands to replace those destroyed during road building, but a Penn State Erie biologist is ... > full story -
Study Explains Mystery Of Mars Icecaps
May 19, 2005 Scientists think they have an answer to the mystery of why the permanent icecap on Mars' South Pole is offset from the pole itself. Beyond that, this new understanding about Mars' climate and its ... > full story -
NASA Study Finds Snow Melt Causes Large Ocean Plant Blooms
April 21, 2005 A NASA funded study has found a decline in winter and spring snow cover over Southwest Asia and the Himalayan mountain range is creating conditions for more widespread blooms of ocean plants in the ... > full story -
Taking The Piste Out Of Alpine Vegetation
April 19, 2005 Major changes need to be made to the way ski pistes are managed if delicate alpine plants are to be protected, ecologists have warned. According to new research published today in the British ... > full story -
NASA Study Finds Soot May Be Changing The Arctic Environment
April 11, 2005 New findings show soot may be contributing to changes happening near the North Pole, such as accelerating melting of sea ice and snow and changing atmospheric ... > full story -
Snow Brings Green Machining To Laboratory
March 25, 2005 University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a novel machining technique that uses a jet of solid carbon dioxide (CO2) to cool/lubricate the surface of ... > full story -
Ice Core 'Dipstick' Indicates West Antarctic Ice Has Thinned Less Than Believed
March 25, 2005 In a new study led by University of Washington researchers, an ice core of 1,000 meters was used as a sort of dipstick to show that a key section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet probably never ... > full story -
Polar Expedition Contributes To ESA's Ice Mission CryoSat
February 24, 2005 A three-man scientific expedition called Pole Track embarks upon a gruelling 1000 km trek across the frozen Arctic to collect valuable data for climate-change research. Throughout the demanding ... > full story -
Melting Ice Important Indicator Of Global Warming
February 23, 2005 Surrounded by winter snow and ice, melting seems like a good thing, but, on a global scale, the melting of ice sheets and glaciers is a sign of global warming, according to a Penn State ... > full story -
Physicists Discover Temperature Key To Avalanche Movement
January 31, 2005 100 years after Einstein’s landmark work on Brownian motion, physicists have discovered a new concept of temperature that could be the key to explaining how ice and snow particles flow during ... > full story
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