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Current levels of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere are higher now than at any time in the last 650,000 years.
That is the conclusion of new European studies looking at ice taken from 3km below the surface of Antarctica.
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Ancient life
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Volcanic rock discovery could reveal secrets of Earth's history
Geologists in Scotland have discovered a completely new type of volcanic rock, which they believe will help to pinpoint the precise time in Earth's history at which life emerged from the oceans and began to colonise...
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Sumatra-Andaman earthquake
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The great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of December 26, 2004, was an event of stunning proportions, both in its human dimensions--nearly 300,000 lives lost--and as a geological phenomenon.
The sudden rupture of a huge fault beneath the Indian Ocean unleashed a devastating tsunami. It was the la...
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Ediacaran Period
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Flinders Ranges rocks contain a rare frozen record of extreme climate change, leading researchers say. Dr Alan Collins from Adelaide University's school of Earth and Environmental Sciences, said the rocks provided a unique glimpse of weather patterns [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed...
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Dark sky zone
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Tourist park hopes to be named one of planet's true black spots A Scottish forest is one of two national parks competing to be named Officials from the Forestry Commission Scotland are hoping Galloway Forest Park will beat Hortobágy National Park in Hungary to be crowned Europe's first official &qu...
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Methanogenic Archaea
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Max Planck researchers uncover the survival strategy of microorganisms responsible for the world-wide emission of methane from rice paddies
About 10 to 25 percent of the world's methane emissions come from flooded rice paddies. Methane is a greenhouse gas produced by various groups of micr...
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Mount Everest
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Global warming is shrinking glaciers on the Tibet side of Mount Everest"[url=http://www.geocities.com/goarana668/everest...
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Ancient climate
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A University of Washington researcher has devised a way to use the fossil teeth of ancient bison as a tool to reconstruct historic climate and vegetation changes in America's breadbasket, the Great Plains.
The teeth hold evidence of the type of vegetation that grew in a particular location at a pa...
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Gemini Observatory
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The recent addition of a field lens in the Altair adaptive optics system at the Gemini Observatory has resulted in a significant improvement in near-infrared imaging capabilities at Gemini North. Altair with the field lens will begin regular science use in semester 2006A.
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Atacama Large Millimeter Array
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Expand The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), shown here in this artist's conception, will follow the trail blazed by the SMA and bring a depth of understand...
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Light Pollution, Energy Saving, Astronomy
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http://www.amtsgym-sdbg.dk/as/sky.htm
http://www.darksky.org
Unfortunately, an undisturbed sky is no longer an experience possible for everybody. Amateur Astronomers and Wildlife Associations worldwide regard the increasing light pollution with increasing concern. Elect...
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Negribreen glacier
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Negribreen on the move Rapid acceleration of an Arctic glacier over the past year has been detected by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites. Sitting on Norway's Spitsbergen island in the Svalbard archipelago, the Negribreen glacier has recently seen a surge in ice surface speed, increasing fro...
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Glass in Space
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It's easy: mix together some materials like sand, limestone and soda. Heat them above 2000o F. Then cool the incandescent liquid carefully so that crystals cannot form.
That's how you make glass.
Craftsmen on Earth have followed this basic recipe for millennia. It works. "Now we know i...
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USCGC Tamaroa
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'Perfect Storm' ship USCGC Tamaroa about to become part of artificial reef The ship made famous in the book and subsequent film The Perfect Storm is about to be intentionally sunk off the New Jersey and Delaware coasts so it can become part of an artificial reef. The sinking of the Tamaroa, a 62-metre C...
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Sleeping Dinosaur
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FIRST EVER FOSSIL OF SLEEPING DINOSAUR FOUND IN CHINA
Finding by American Museum of Natural History Palaeontologists Suggests Some Dinosaurs were Warm-Blooded like Birds.
The first fossil of a sleeping non-avian dinosaur has been described by a pair of Ameri...
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