Climate
Domestic NAO spying delayed by Congressional committee
By: William Atkins
The National Applications Office (NAO), a department of U.S. Homeland Security, was not allowed to begin domestic observations within the United States and its territories on October 1, 2007, due to concerns with civil liberties and the legality of its actions.
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By: William Atkins
The National Applications Office (NAO), a department of U.S. Homeland Security, was not allowed to begin domestic observations within the United States and its territories on October 1, 2007, due to concerns with civil liberties and the legality of its actions.
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Oxygen atmosphere on Earth found millions of years earlier than thought
By: William Atkins
The Great Oxidation Event was a global environmental change that was believed to have occurred about 2.4 billion years ago—when oxygen was first believed to show up and rapidly accumulate in the Earth’s atmosphere. Recent research shows that oxygen, instead, appeared millions of years earlier.
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By: William Atkins
The Great Oxidation Event was a global environmental change that was believed to have occurred about 2.4 billion years ago—when oxygen was first believed to show up and rapidly accumulate in the Earth’s atmosphere. Recent research shows that oxygen, instead, appeared millions of years earlier.
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Three ocean corals listed as threatened for first time
By: William Atkins
According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, two corals are listed as critically endangered and one coral is listed as vulnerable—for the first time in its listing.
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By: William Atkins
According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, two corals are listed as critically endangered and one coral is listed as vulnerable—for the first time in its listing.
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Houston, Texas, and NASA Mission Control, prepare for Hurricane Dean
By: William Atkins
Worried that Hurricane Dean might turn toward the Mission Control Center at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, NASA is taking needed action to assure that the shuttle is back on Earth before the storm hits and that its mission control personnel are safe.
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By: William Atkins
Worried that Hurricane Dean might turn toward the Mission Control Center at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, NASA is taking needed action to assure that the shuttle is back on Earth before the storm hits and that its mission control personnel are safe.
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NASA rover managers increasingly anxious with state of Opportunity
By: William Atkins
Mars Exploration Rover (MER) managers are growing very concerned with the low temperature of the electronics onboard Opportunity as Martian dust storms continue to assault the rover.
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By: William Atkins
Mars Exploration Rover (MER) managers are growing very concerned with the low temperature of the electronics onboard Opportunity as Martian dust storms continue to assault the rover.
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iPods and lighting are a shockingly powerful combo
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
If you’re outside and you’re in a thunderstorm (or one is brewing), turn off your iPod and remove the headphones from your ears – or you risk being zapped in the head!
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
If you’re outside and you’re in a thunderstorm (or one is brewing), turn off your iPod and remove the headphones from your ears – or you risk being zapped in the head!
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Sun not global warming factor, according to UK & Swiss scientists
By: William Atkins
Data from the past forty years clearly shows that the Sun peaked in intensity in the mid-1980s and has been declining in solar activity ever since. With the Sun in a cycle that produces less heat, it is unlikely to be a factor in the Earth becoming warmer.
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By: William Atkins
Data from the past forty years clearly shows that the Sun peaked in intensity in the mid-1980s and has been declining in solar activity ever since. With the Sun in a cycle that produces less heat, it is unlikely to be a factor in the Earth becoming warmer.
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Ancient DNA finds Greenland's past a land of trees and butterflies
By: William Atkins
With over 80% of Greenland a massive ice cap, it seems unlikely but a Danish scientist has discovered that between 450,000 and 800,000 years ago Greenland was the home to a green forest full of plants, trees, and insects.
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By: William Atkins
With over 80% of Greenland a massive ice cap, it seems unlikely but a Danish scientist has discovered that between 450,000 and 800,000 years ago Greenland was the home to a green forest full of plants, trees, and insects.
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NASA’s AIM takes exciting pixs of noctilucent clouds on edge of space
By: William Atkins
The mission of the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) spacecraft is to study very high mysterious clouds at the edge of space that are called noctilucent clouds (NLCs). AIM has already produced dramatic first-time photographs of these NLCs.
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By: William Atkins
The mission of the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) spacecraft is to study very high mysterious clouds at the edge of space that are called noctilucent clouds (NLCs). AIM has already produced dramatic first-time photographs of these NLCs.
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Marine life on floating icebergs may help reduce CO2 in atmosphere
By: William Atkins
U.S. oceanographers have discovered marine ecosystems on drifting icebergs that absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air, a gas that contributes to global warming.
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By: William Atkins
U.S. oceanographers have discovered marine ecosystems on drifting icebergs that absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air, a gas that contributes to global warming.
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Will EPA side with brown or green on ozone standard?
By: William Atkins
The EPA is considering stricter ozone standards. Dropping levels would save thousands of lives say "green" environmentalists. However, It will cost "brown" businesses more to comply with the stricter standards. Will the EPA go with businesses and industries or heed the advice of scientists and environmentalists?
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By: William Atkins
The EPA is considering stricter ozone standards. Dropping levels would save thousands of lives say "green" environmentalists. However, It will cost "brown" businesses more to comply with the stricter standards. Will the EPA go with businesses and industries or heed the advice of scientists and environmentalists?
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Familiar backyard birds on decline—down 50% over last 40 years
By: William Atkins
Based on a new National Audubon Society study, twenty of the most common North American birds, such as the field sparrow, snow bunting, meadowlark, Northern bobwhite, and whippoorwill, are drastically on the decline due to human encroachment, climate change, and invasive species.
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By: William Atkins
Based on a new National Audubon Society study, twenty of the most common North American birds, such as the field sparrow, snow bunting, meadowlark, Northern bobwhite, and whippoorwill, are drastically on the decline due to human encroachment, climate change, and invasive species.
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Google and Intel lead green computing brigade
By: Stan Beer
PCs and servers are incredibly wasteful, energy hungry devices. So the world's biggest purveyors of and facilitators of these devices, led by Google and Intel, have launched an initiative to make computers more green and help save the planet by 2010.
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By: Stan Beer
PCs and servers are incredibly wasteful, energy hungry devices. So the world's biggest purveyors of and facilitators of these devices, led by Google and Intel, have launched an initiative to make computers more green and help save the planet by 2010.
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Italian COSMO-SkyMed satellite launched to study world’s weather
By: William Atkins
The COSMO-SkyMed 1 satellite, launched Thursday, June 8, 2007, is the first of four Earth observation satellites that will take images of the Earth for military and civilian purposes at an altitude of 619 kilometers.
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By: William Atkins
The COSMO-SkyMed 1 satellite, launched Thursday, June 8, 2007, is the first of four Earth observation satellites that will take images of the Earth for military and civilian purposes at an altitude of 619 kilometers.
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U.S. water and environment laws spring a leak
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
The Federal U.S. ‘Clean Water Act’ looks like it will remove protection for streams and small bodies of water, protecting only lakes and rivers large enough for boats, in a reversal for environmental protection.
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By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
The Federal U.S. ‘Clean Water Act’ looks like it will remove protection for streams and small bodies of water, protecting only lakes and rivers large enough for boats, in a reversal for environmental protection.
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Controversial weather satellites: Scientists say if reduced, we’ll ignore global warming?
By: William Atkins
Many articles are discussing the issue of cutting back on U.S. efforts to launch a next-generation series of weather satellites to save money in a project already full of cost overruns and technical glitches. In controversy is the program called the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System.
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By: William Atkins
Many articles are discussing the issue of cutting back on U.S. efforts to launch a next-generation series of weather satellites to save money in a project already full of cost overruns and technical glitches. In controversy is the program called the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System.
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Wind engineering researchers at Florida build gigantic artificial wind simulator
By: William Atkins
Called the world’s largest fully portable artificial hurricane wind and rain machine, University of Florida engineers led by Forrest Masters built a machine that produces wind speeds of about 100 miles (160 kilometers) per hour.
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By: William Atkins
Called the world’s largest fully portable artificial hurricane wind and rain machine, University of Florida engineers led by Forrest Masters built a machine that produces wind speeds of about 100 miles (160 kilometers) per hour.
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Origins-of-life pioneer Stanley Miller, creator of ‘primodial soup’, dead at 77
By: William Atkins
University of California-San Diego chemist and biologist Stanley Lloyd Miller died May 20, 2007 of heart failure in a hospital in National City, California. Miller is famous for his pioneering experiment that first demonstrated organic molecules could be artificially generated in a laboratory.
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By: William Atkins
University of California-San Diego chemist and biologist Stanley Lloyd Miller died May 20, 2007 of heart failure in a hospital in National City, California. Miller is famous for his pioneering experiment that first demonstrated organic molecules could be artificially generated in a laboratory.
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