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11 2014

Nov 11, 2014

Plump turtles swim better: First models of swimming animals
For the first time, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Florida Atlantic University (FAU), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have measured the force...
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Nov 11, 2014

Green spaces don't ensure biodiversity in urban areas
The researchers surveyed two types of tree in an urban area in Iowa, and recorded the abundance of two insects that interact with them. They found that while there were plenty of the trees, bla...
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Nov 11, 2014

Penguin chick weights connected to local weather conditions
As the WAP climate warms, it is changing from a dry, polar system to a warmer, sub-polar system with more rain.
　　University of Delaware oceanographers recently reported a connection between ...
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11 2014

Nov 11, 2014

Earthquakes in the ocean: Towards a better understanding of their precursors
A model specific to the submarine environment
　　The data used to construct the model presented in the article were collected from subsea observatories* deployed in the North-East Pacific frac...
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11 2014

Nov 11, 2014

Magma pancakes beneath Indonesia's Lake Toba: Subsurface sources of mega-eruptions
A team of geoscientists from Novosibirsk, Paris and Potsdam presents these results in the current issue ofScience. The scientists investigate the question on where the tremendous amounts of mat...
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Nov 11, 2014

Icelandic volcano sits on massive magma hot spot

　　New research from UC Davis and Aarhus University in Denmark shows that high mantle temperatures miles beneath Earth's surface are essential for generating such large amounts of magma. In f...
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11 2014

Nov 11, 2014

New report recognises climate change and ozone depletion links
The ozone hole over Antarctica is responsible for significant climate change in the Southern Hemisphere, according to a new international report.
　　The report, called Scientific Assessment of...
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10 2014

Oct 29, 2014

Changing Antarctic waters could trigger steep rise in sea levels, conditions 14,000 years ago suggest
The research published in Nature Communicationsfound that in the past, when ocean temperatures around Antarctica became more layered -- with a warm layer of water below a cold surface layer -- ...
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10 2014

Oct 29, 2014

Expect 6,000 more Australian deaths if pollution rises to 'safe' threshold
The National Environment Protection Measures (NEPM) has set maximum daily limits, or 'standards', for six key outdoor pollutants, which QUT's Associate Professor Adrian Barnett says many author...
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10 2014

Oct 29, 2014

Fall in monsoon rains driven by rise in air pollution, study shows
In the second half of the 20th century, the levels of rain recorded during the Northern Hemisphere's summer monsoon fell by as much as 10 per cent, researchers say. Changes to global rainfall p...