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Home / News / News item FOR KIDS: Science loses out when ice caps melt By Susan Gaidos Web edition : Friday, January 30th, 2009 Text Size Enlarge GLACIER, THEN AND NOWAt left is Peru's Qori Kalis glacier in 1978, when it was still healthy. At ... [... more]
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Antarctica
Home / News / News item FOR KIDS: Antarctica warms, which threatens penguins By Susan Gaidos Web edition : Friday, January 30th, 2009 Text Size Enlarge UNEXPECTEDLY REDSince the 1950s, some portions of Antarctica have cooled (as denoted in faint ... [... more]
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Science News / Stimulus Bill Doesn't Ignore R & D;
Rumors have circulated for weeks about how robustly the economic-stimulus package would invest in research and development. The first solid clues emerged yesterday when the House Appropriations Committee released draft legislation to finance a ... [... more]
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Science News / Forest Invades Tundra
People frequently say "green" to mean "environmentally friendly." But encroaching conifer forests - really big greens - threaten to further spike the far North's already low-grade fever. Temperatures in the high Arctic already are [... more]
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Science News / Down With Carbon
Home / May 10th, 2008; Vol.173 #16 / Feature Down with Carbon Scientists work to put the greenhouse gas in its place By Sid Perkins May 10th, 2008; Vol.173 #16 Text Size One morning each week, a scientist takes a stroll on the barren upper slopes ... [... more]
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Science News / A Feverish World
Science News for Kids: The second of a two-part series on climate change Home / Feature A Feverish World Science News for Kids: The second of a two-part series on climate change By Agnieszka Biskup Web edition : Monday, May 5th, 2008 Text ... [... more]
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Science News / Steven Chu's Senate Confirmation Looks ...
It wasn't exactly a love-fest, but the initial hearing, today, on Steven Chu's soon-to-be-formal Energy Secretary nomination couldn't have been more cordial. Although senators can be a fairly imperious lot, members of the Committee on Energy and ... [... more]
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Science News / Warmer Oceans Would Fuel More Thunderstorms
Satellite data reveal more thunderheads forming as tropical sea-surface temperatures rise SAN FRANCISCO -- Inhabitants of the tropics can expect to see more severe storms if sea-surface temperatures in the region continue to rise as Earth's ... [... more]
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Obama administration should lead energy transition
In the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC [2007 ], we tried to bring out the finding that there's enough observed evidence to say warming of the climate is unequivocal and that over the last five decades or so, the bulk of that warming has taken ... [... more]
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Science News / Holdren To Head White House Science
Director of the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, Holdren currently holds an additional appointment as the director of science, technology and public policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and teaches environmental ... [... more]
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Science News / Thwarting Tree Poachers
Earth's tree cover helps store carbon dioxide and moderate ground temperatures. But society's voracious appetite for wood products and cleared land has fostered rampant deforestation around the globe. Many trees are rapidly disappearing even from ... [... more]
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Science News / ENV Tidbits: Corals, Nano Concerns, And More
Today I'm going to launch the first in a series of occasional packages of tidbits. Individual elements won't be whole stories in the way Science News conventionally prepares them. Instead, these will be a compilation of news nuggets on things ... [... more]
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