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Better fitness may slow brain aging
Posted: March 6, 2015People with poor physical fitness in their 40s may have lower brain volumes by the time they hit 60, an indicator of accelerated brain aging, according to new research presented…
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What's a fish native to Japan doing in the ocean off the coast of Oregon?
Posted: March 6, 2015A team of scientists from Oregon State University and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is studying an unusual fish captured alive in a crab pot near Port Orford…
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Urban expansion could greatly increase flood risks
Posted: March 5, 2015A heads-up to New York, Baltimore, Houston and Miami: a new study suggests that these metropolitan areas and others will increase their exposure to floods even in the absence of…
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Are the EU's air pollution rules weaker than China's?
Posted: March 5, 2015Europe’s coal plants will be allowed to emit more deadly pollutants than their notorious Chinese counterparts under EU proposals for new air quality rules heavily influenced by the big energy…
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University of Oxford finds trees inhale less carbon when they are drought – impacted
Posted: March 5, 2015For the first time, an international research team has provided direct evidence of the rate at which individual trees in the Amazonian basin 'inhale' carbon from the atmosphere during a…
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Amazon deforestation 'threshold' causes species loss to accelerate
Posted: March 4, 2015One of the largest area studies of forest loss impacting biodiversity shows that a third of the Amazon is headed toward or has just past a threshold of forest cover…
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New insight on the Tree of Life from Temple University
Posted: March 4, 2015Temple University researchers have assembled the largest and most accurate tree of life calibrated to time, and surprisingly, it reveals that life has been expanding at a constant rate. "The constant…
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Newest 'green' burial method? Turn your loved ones into trees
Posted: March 4, 2015Have you ever considered what might be a more eco-friendly alternative to coffins? How about organic burial pods where, instead of headstones, trees are planted on top. Two Italian designers–Anna Citelli and Raoul…
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Air pollution linked to slower cognitive development in children
Posted: March 3, 2015Attendance at schools exposed to high levels of traffic-related air pollution is linked to slower cognitive development among 7-10-year-old children in Barcelona, according to a study published by Jordi Sunyer…
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Combined Arctic ice observations show decades of loss
Posted: March 3, 2015It's no surprise that Arctic sea ice is thinning. What is new is just how long, how steadily, and how much it has declined. University of Washington researchers compiled modern…
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