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"Rock Stars" to Present Geologic Findings at Houston Conference (USGS)
Top scientists from across the world, including 192 earth science experts from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), will be gathering this week to share their latest findings and most innovative research. Â The USGS will be a major participant at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA), Oct. 5-9, 2008 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. USGS ...
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Ozone Controls Failing To Protect Human Health And The Environment, Warns The Royal Society (Medical News Today)
Existing controls are failing to reduce the air pollutant ground level ozone to a level that protects human health and the environment, and climate change will make the challenge harder, warns a major new report from the Royal Society(1) - the UK national academy of science - today (6 October 2008).
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Ground-level ozone on the rise (Nature)
Increasing pollutant levels could cause major food crisis, says Royal Society.
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SCIENCE MATTERS: Putting humans in their place (LondonTopic.ca)
Andrew Weaver's recently published book, Keeping Our Cool: Canada in a Warming World, is an urgent call to action that some of the folks running for the privilege of leading us into the future seem to be ignoring.
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Mercury's rising! (Deccan Herald)
...And the earth's feeling the heat! A recent study says that in the early years at least, responsibility for deep cuts in emissions would have to be borne by rich countries, which are behind some of the most historic build-ups in emissions.
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Global Warming: Beyond the Tipping Point (Scientific American)
The basic proposition behind the science of climate change is so firmly rooted in the laws of physics that no reasonable person can dispute it. All other things being equal, adding carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere--by, for example, burning millions of tons of oil, coal and natural gas--will make it warm up. That, as the Nobel Prize–winning chemist Svante Arrhenius first explained in 1896, ...
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Paleozoic 'Sediment Curve' Provides New Tool for Tracking Sea-floor Sediment Movements (Kansas City InfoZine)
Follows sea-level rise and fall between 542 and 251 million years ago
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Elite Club Lets Space Tourist Cut to Front of Line (SPACE.com via Yahoo! News)
American billionaire Charles Simonyi snagged his history-making second space tourist trip to the International Space Station next year thanks to an elite club that gives its members first dibs on private spaceflight seats.
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Richard Branson Wants to Help Science Save Earth (Wired News)
The flamboyant entrepreneur wants to add Virgin Climate Research to his vast empire, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says, "Welcome aboard." Wired.com
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Half of mammals 'in decline', says extinction Red List (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Half the world's mammals are declining in population and more than a third probably face extinction, said an update Monday of the "Red List," the most respected inventory of biodiversity.
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