Climate
By: Paul Hosking
As recently reported on iTWire data centers are huge consumers of electricity. One data center is making a stand and going green.
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By: Posted by Peter Dinham
LONDON (Reuters) - The world must aim to limit the temperature rise due to global warming to just two degrees Celsius (4 F) despite the near impossibility of achieving it, World Bank Chief Scientist Robert Watson said on Monday.
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By: Stan Beer
One of the largest annual meetings of the world's leading scientists, currently underway in San Francisco, this year has very heavy environmental slant, indicating growing unease in the scientific community about climate change and environmental sustainability. A conference to be called on February 18 will call for the abolition of deep sea fishing saying entire species are under threat.
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By: Stan Beer
Antarctica, which holds about 70% of the world's fresh water in its ice, is leaking water into the ocean through a vast system of lakes and water ways beneath the ice, causing the sea level to rise, according to scientists using data from NASA satellites.
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By: William Atkins
A pair of NASA solar observatory probes called STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is positioning themselves apart in space so they can take three-dimensional images of activities on the Sun.
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By: William Atkins
Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark has concluded that the Earth is experiencing less cloud cover because cosmic rays are not entering the atmosphere as frequently as normal. Consequently, Svensmark says that cosmic rays, not human-made carbon dioxide emissions, are largely responsible for global warming.
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By: William Atkins
NASA is expected to launch its THEMIS spacecraft on Thursday, February 15, 2007, to study magnetic storms that affect auroras near the North and South Poles of the Earth.
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By: Posted by Peter Dinham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. environmental regulators issued new standards on Friday to reduce the amount of cancer-causing emissions from gasoline, vehicles operating in cold weather and portable gas cans.
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By: Posted by Peter Dinham
As the UK becomes only the seventh nation to have more than two GigaWatts of electricity generated by wind farms, the government has given the green (no pun intended) light to the world's first offshore combined wind and gas energy scheme.
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By: William Atkins
It has been reported that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has developed a problem with its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera and Mars Climate Sounder.
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By: Posted by Peter Dinham
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva blamed wealthy countries for global warming on Tuesday and said they should stop telling Brazil what to do with the Amazon rainforest.
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By: Posted by Peter Dinham
LONDON (Reuters) - Fleets of supertankers could one day ply the world's oceans laden not with oil but fresh water.
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By: Posted by Peter Dinham
CANBERRA (Reuters) - From a boat at sea, Australia's Great Barrier Reef seems invincible -- its myriad corals stretching 2,300 kilometers (1,400 miles) beyond sight.
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By: William Atkins
Detailed images produced by the Cassini spacecraft on December 29, 2006, show a cloud formation about 2,400 kilometers (1,500 miles) in diameter at Titan’s north-pole region. Scientists had never before actually seen such a detailed cloud system on Titan, but had predicted its possible existence.
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By: Stan Beer
Climate scientists have provided the strongest evidence yet that human activities are causing climate change, according to a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC's) 4th Assessment Report.
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By: Stan Beer
A report co-authored by a climate scientist from Australia's CSIRO has found that global sea level has been rising at an alarming rate projected to be a hefty 88cm increase between 1990 and 2100. Global warming has been named as the cause.
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By: William Atkins
Geological scientists are studying the African and Arabian tectonic plates as two continental shelves tear land apart in northern Ethiopia. Normally, plate tectonics cause average movements of about 15 millimeters per year. However, over the last two years some land has spectacularly moved large distances—the largest one being eight meters (8,000 millimeters) overnight.
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By: Posted by Peter Dinham
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Rising temperatures will leave millions more people hungry by 2080 and cause critical water shortages in China and Australia, as well as parts of Europe and the United States, according to a new global climate report.
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