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The effects of Global warming on fisheries assessed in new study
Posted: February 19, 2015A report to be published Thursday in the journal Nature suggests that global warming may increase upwelling in several ocean current systems around the world by the end of this…
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Oil Train Derailment Causes Huge Fire in West Virginia
Posted: February 18, 2015A huge fire is burning out of control in West Virginia and 1,000 people have been evacuated from their homes, after a train carrying crude oil derailed. When the accident happened,…
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Feds Propose Protection of Calving, Foraging Areas of Last 450 Right Whales on East Coast
Posted: February 18, 2015In response to the efforts of conservation and wildlife protection groups, the National Marine Fisheries Service today proposed to protect 39,655 square miles as critical habitat for North Atlantic right…
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Harsh winter in Eastern US result of warming Arctic and shifting jet stream
Posted: February 18, 2015Prolonged cold snaps on the East Coast, California drought and frozen mornings in the South all have something in common – the atmospheric jet stream which transports weather systems that’s …
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Climate change may affect tick life cycles, Lyme disease
Posted: February 17, 2015A new study suggests that changing climate patterns may be altering the life cycles of blacklegged ticks in the northeastern United States, which could increase transmission among animals – and…
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New ozone-destroying gases on the rise
Posted: February 17, 2015Scientists report that chemicals that are not controlled by a United Nations treaty designed to protect the Ozone Layer are contributing to ozone depletion. In the new study, published today in…
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'Hidden Order' Physics Mystery getting less mysterious thanks to Rutgers scientists
Posted: February 17, 2015A new explanation for a type of order, or symmetry, in an exotic material made with uranium may lead to enhanced computer displays and data storage systems, and more powerful…
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Component in olive oil kills cancer cells
Posted: February 16, 2015A Rutgers nutritional scientist and two cancer biologists at New York City’s Hunter College have found that an ingredient in extra-virgin olive oil kills a variety of human cancer cells without harming…
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Geoengineering – blessing or curse?
Posted: February 15, 2015The geoengineering genie should remain firmly stopped up in its bottle until a robust case is made for letting it out, writes Clive Hamilton – and that's something the NRC's…
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A Valentine's Day gift to us all from NASA
Posted: February 14, 2015Valentine's Day is special for NASA's Voyager mission. It was on Feb. 14, 1990, that the Voyager 1 spacecraft looked back at our solar system and snapped the first-ever pictures…
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