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A question of height - 2 Jul 2009
What Europe can learn from the successful reintroduction of a once extinct butterfly in Britain IMAGE: This is...
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AGU journal highlights - July 2, 2009 - 2 Jul 2009
1. Ancient supervolcano's eruption caused decade of severe winters Previous studies have suggested that Indonesia's Toba supervolcano, when it...
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LRO's first moon images - 2 Jul 2009
IMAGE: This image shows cratered regions near the moon's Mare Nubium region, as photographed by the Lunar...
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Pacific Northwest forests could store more carbon,... - 2 Jul 2009
CORVALLIS, Ore. – The forests of the Pacific Northwest hold significant potential to increase carbon storage and help mitigate greenhouse...
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UT multimedia program increases middle school... - 2 Jul 2009
Middle school students who were part of a unique science learning program developed by The University of Texas School of Public Health showed...
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Ferns took to the trees and thrived - 2 Jul 2009
DURHAM, N.C. -- As flowering plants like giant trees quickly rose to dominate plant communities during the Cretaceous period, the ferns that...
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Evolution: Crabs go deep to avoid hot water - 2 Jul 2009
King crabs Researchers from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, have drawn together 200 years' worth of oceanographic knowledge to...
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Scientists 'rebuild' giant moa using ancient DNA - 2 Jul 2009
Scientists have performed the first DNA-based reconstruction of the giant extinct moa bird, using prehistoric feathers recovered from caves and...
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Climate change and the mystery of the shrinking sheep - 2 Jul 2009
Milder winters are causing Scotland's wild breed of Soay sheep to get smaller, despite the evolutionary benefits of possessing a large body,...
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Mars data published in Science this week - 2 Jul 2009
Four papers in the journal Science this week offer new details about the history of water on Mars, gleaned from the 2008 NASA Phoenix Mars...
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'Genetic arms race' between bacteria, viruses... - 2 Jul 2009
Cyanobacteria will be focus of research project IMAGE: Michigan State University researcher Jay Lennon will...
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All in sight - 2 Jul 2009
The Alfred Wegener Institute tests infrared system for the protection of whales IMAGE: The FIRST Navy thermal...
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Nursery programs for corals receive TLC from NOAA... - 2 Jul 2009
$350K in stimulus funding to greatly expand reef restoration efforts in Florida, US Virgin Islands IMAGE:...
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Mangrove-dependent animals globally threatened - 1 Jul 2009
Extinction looms for amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds restricted to declining mangrove forests More than 40 percent of a sample of...
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A young brain for an old bee - 1 Jul 2009
IMAGE: Honey bees, used as the experimental model, on an artificial comb. Nurses can be seen taking care of...
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Key to evolutionary fitness: Cut the calories - 1 Jul 2009
Charles Darwin and his contemporaries postulated that food consumption in birds and mammals was limited by resource levels, that is, animals...
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Earth's most prominent rainfall feature creeping... - 1 Jul 2009
IMAGE: The band of heavy precipitation indicates the intertropical convergence zone. The new findings are...
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Desert rhubarb -- a self-irrigating plant - 1 Jul 2009
Researchers from the University of Haifa-Oranim have managed to decipher the unique self-watering mechanism of this plant in the Negev desert,...
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The least sea ice in 800 years - 1 Jul 2009
IMAGE: There has never been so little sea ice in the area between Svalbard and Greenland in the last 800...
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Plants save the earth from an icy doom - 1 Jul 2009
IMAGE: Mark Pagani is a researcher at Yale University. Click here for more...
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Plants put limit on ice ages - 1 Jul 2009
Palo Alto, CA— When glaciers advanced over much of the Earth's surface during the last ice age, what kept the planet from freezing over...
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Forest service carves new experimental forest out of... - 1 Jul 2009
IMAGE: From the glaciers of the Juneau icefield to the estuaries of the Lynn Canal, the Heen Latinee...
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International team of students and scientists on... - 1 Jul 2009
Scientists and undergraduate students from across the United States and Russia are departing July 2 for a month-long field course in the...
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Forest Service designates new experimental forest in... - 1 Jul 2009
IMAGE: From the glaciers of the Juneau icefield to the estuaries of the Lynn Canal, the Heen Latinee...
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Your own private global warming - 30 Jun 2009
Measuring the effects of temperature increases in the Antarctic fauna A group of researchers from the British Antarctic Survey have collected...
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July 2009 Geology and GSA Today Media Highlights - 30 Jun 2009
Boulder, CO, USA - GEOLOGY articles extract information on forces shaping Earth's surface, solve the puzzle of LIPs on land, trace the leading...
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UB geologists to help communicate the dangers of... - 30 Jun 2009
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- During the past decade, residents of Pasto, Colombia, and neighboring villages near Galeras, Colombia's most dangerous...
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Super-size deposits of frozen carbon threat to... - 30 Jun 2009
The vast amount of carbon stored in the arctic and boreal regions of the world is more than double that previously estimated, according to a...
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New fossil primate suggests common Asian ancestor,... - 30 Jun 2009
A new fossil primate from Myanmar suggests that the common ancestor of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, not Africa as many...
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Researchers survey Mid-Atlantic ridge looking for... - 30 Jun 2009
An international team of researchers is surveying the Mid-Atlantic Ridge halfway between Iceland and the Azores to determine its biodiversity...
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