Climate Shifts May Bring New Apple Growing Areas
Climate has always shifted but concerns about faster changes brought on by the modern world have led the authors of a new paper to worry that current high-volume sources of apples could lose their...
Environment
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Energy
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Knee Point Prediction And Battery Capacity Degradation
Electric cars and solar and wind energy alternative schemes have a few crippling limitations; low energy densities and unavailability when people need energy most. Batteries could help with that...
Atmospheric
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Mercury Emissions Are In Decline Yet Doomsday Prophets Claim They Are Up
If you read environmental groups, we are closer to our doom than ever. Bees are nearly extinct, cell phones are causing cancer, and hydroelectric power is devastating the land.None of those are true...
Paleontology
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More Like Lizards: Claim That T. Rex Was As Smart As Monkeys Refuted
A year ago, corporate media promoted the provocative claim that dinosaurs like Tyrannorsaurus rex had so many neurons they had to be substantially more intelligent than assumed, since these high...
Geology
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An Earth Day Should Be 60 Hours Long - Here's Why It Never Happened
Everyone knows a 'day' - one rotation of Earth - is around 24 hours long and lengthening at a rate of some 1.7 milliseconds every century. Yet 2 billion years ago it was 19.5 hours and at that rate...
Oceanography
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The Role Of Earth’s Orbit In Climate Change
There has long been debate about the role of Earth’s orbit in driving global climate cycles. As most people know, 90,000 of every 100,000 years have been ice ages in patterns.Scientists have long...
Researchers Clone Key Sperm-binding Proteins
New treatments for infertility could be closer to reality, thanks to a discovery from scientists at the Université de Montréal and Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Centre.
According to a study…
Big and small dents
The Earth explorer satellite GOCE (Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer), built by the European Space Agency ESA, was successfully launched today at 15:21 GMT from the Russian…
Call for Abstracts for Climate Change Congress in Copenhagen (Deadline September 1, 2008)
Here is your opportunity to influence the policy makers at the the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-15) to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark during November-December 2009.
Specifically, the…
Introduction To Geodesy
Geodesy is the science of determining the geometry, gravity field, and rotation of the Earth and their evolution in time. Traditionally, geodesy has been serving other sciences and has had many…
How Ancient Glaciers Survived In A Greenhouse Climate
New research challenges the generally accepted belief that substantial ice sheets could not have existed on Earth during past super-warm climate events.
The study by researchers at Scripps…
Allan Hills 84001 Analysis Confirms Building Blocks Of Life Also Formed On Mars
Organic compounds contain carbon and hydrogen and form the building blocks of all life on Earth. By analyzing organic material and minerals in the Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001, scientists at…
New Model Redefines How Plants And Soil Interacts With The Atmosphere
Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a new model of global carbon and nitrogen cycling that will fundamentally transform the understanding of how plants and soils interact with a…
Study: Today's Greenland Ice Melting Similar To 1920s - 1940s Period
Two researchers have found that the effects of the current warming and melting of Greenland 's glaciers that has alarmed the world's climate scientists occurred in the decades following an abrupt…
Ancient Global Warming Caused Flood Which Caused Ancient Global Cooling
As the giant North American ice sheets melted an enormous pool of freshwater, many times larger than all of the Great Lakes, formed behind them. About 8400 years ago this pool of freshwater burst…
Scientists Simulate Impact Of Future Carbon Levels On Marine Life
The world oceans are by far the largest sink of anthropogenic CO2 on our planet. Until now, they have swallowed almost half of the CO2 emitted through the burning of fossil fuels but scientists are…
