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SpaceX launches Jason-3 satellite to monitor sea levels
Posted: January 18, 2016Jason-3, a U.S.-European oceanography satellite mission with NASA participation that will continue a nearly quarter-century record of tracking global sea level rise, lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in…
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How soil frost affects greenhouse gas emissions from Arctic soils
Posted: January 17, 2016Soil frost is a nearly universal process in the Arctic. In a recent dissertation by doctoral student Marina Becher at Umeå University, it is shown that the frequency and extent…
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Warming climate may impact animals' ability to eat some toxic plants
Posted: January 16, 2016University of Utah lab experiments found that when temperatures get warmer, woodrats suffer a reduced ability to live on their normal diet of toxic creosote – suggesting that global warming…
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How much methane IS leaking at Porter Ranch?
Posted: January 15, 2016A UC Davis scientist flying in a pollution-detecting airplane provided the first, and so far only, estimates of methane emissions spewing from the Aliso Canyon Natural Gas Storage Facility in…
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Denmark breaks its own world record in wind energy
Posted: January 15, 2016Danish wind turbines set a new world record in 2015. Wind power is now counted for 42.1% of the total electricity consumption in Denmark, according to data published on Friday (15…
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Trying to quit smoking using eCigs? Might actually make it harder!
Posted: January 14, 2016Electronic cigarettes are widely promoted and used to help smokers quit traditional cigarettes, but a new analysis from UC San Francisco found that adult smokers who use e-cigarettes are actually…
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Why does eating fish during pregnancy aid baby brain development?
Posted: January 14, 2016Researchers at Tohoku University's School of Medicine have found an explanation for the correlation between eating fish during pregnancy, and the health of the baby's brain.Dietary lipid contains fatty acids…
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California, Feds Reject Volkswagen Recall “Fix”
Posted: January 14, 2016Last week, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) said “no deal” to Volkswagen’s proposal to buy back some of the vehicles that were outfitted with cheat devices. According to CARB, the plan, which…
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory shows how nanoparticles impact immune cells
Posted: January 13, 2016Scientists have shown that a process known as oxidative stress is at work during encounters between certain nanoparticles and immune cells, selectively modifying proteins on macrophages, a type of immune…
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Why the Himalayas keep growing
Posted: January 13, 2016An international team of scientists has shed new light on the earthquake that devastated Nepal in April 2015, killing more than 8,000 people.In a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the scientists…
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