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Could California Be Facing A Mega-Drought?
Posted: October 15, 2014Agriculture, one of California’s strongest pillars, has taken the biggest hit: the drought will cost at least $2.2 billion in agricultural losses this year alone. Fields of dead almond trees…
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How Birds Cope with Turbulence
Posted: October 15, 2014Researchers set out to examine how soaring birds such as eagles, vultures, and kites, are able to fly in ‘gusty’ turbulent flight conditions that would keep a light aircraft grounded….
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Methane sink discovered in oceanic rock
Posted: October 15, 2014Since the first undersea methane seep was discovered 30 years ago, scientists have meticulously analyzed and measured how microbes in the seafloor sediments consume the greenhouse gas methane as part…
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Fly genome could help us improve our health and environment
Posted: October 14, 2014The house fly might be a worldwide pest, but its genome will provide information that could improve our lives. From insights into pathogen immunity, to pest control and decomposing waste,…
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Space Weather and OUR weather
Posted: October 14, 2014What is “space weather”? And how might it affect weather on Earth? Researchers have discovered a formerly undetected impact of space weather on the polar atmosphere, which may explain some…
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Why Cat Poop is Bad News for Sea Otters
Posted: October 13, 2014A parasite spread by cat poop is causing a big problem for endangered sea otters in California, and researchers have finally figured out how. Sea otters were nearly wiped out…
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How did Icebergs reach Florida in the last Ice Age?
Posted: October 13, 2014Using a first-of-its-kind, high-resolution numerical model to describe ocean circulation during the last ice age about 21,000 year ago, oceanographer Alan Condron of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has shown…
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NASA maps methane emissions
Posted: October 12, 2014An unexpectedly high amount of the climate-changing gas methane, the main component of natural gas, is escaping from the Four Corners region in the U.S. Southwest, according to a new…
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Companies Working to Eliminate Hunger
Posted: October 11, 2014With a busy week behind you and the weekend within reach, there’s no shame in taking things a bit easy on Friday afternoon. With this in mind, every Friday TriplePundit…
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Middle Eastern Vegetation Resistant to Climate Change
Posted: October 10, 2014Ecosystems in the Middle East are home to a wealth of unique species – including the ancestors of many of our staple crops today. Yet the climate scenario in this…
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