Topic: Science & Technology

This summer, artic researchers recorded tempetures of 70 degrees in areas with July temperatures that normally average 40 degrees.

Unprecedented warm temperatures in the High Arctic this past summer were so extreme that researchers with a Queen’s-led climate change project have begun revising their forecasts.

A Texas Tech professor comments on recent report by the Union of Concerned Scientists.

By 2050, the United States must cut its emissions by at least 80 percent below those created in the year 2000 if the world is to avoid potentially dangerous impacts of human-induced climate change, according to a report released Thursday by Texas Tech University, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) and Stanford University.

Unless we can reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by at least 30 percent from 1990 levels, we may see regional extinction of the polar bear within the next 45 to 75 years.

A new report on the fate of polar bears in a world of rapid climate change predicts disaster for one of the world's most charismatic species, World Wildlife Fund said on Tuesday.

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The non-native crabs are filter feeders and may compete with oysters and mussels in the Southeast United States for food.

A dime-sized tropical crab that has invaded coastal waters in the Southeast United States is having both positive and negative effects on oyster reefs, leaving researchers unable to predict what the creature’s long-term impact will be.

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Researcher Amanda Hollebone searches for non-native
crabs in oyster reefs along the Georgia coast.

A person's handwriting is like a mirror that reflects the most intimate personality and character traits. Today handwriting analysis, or Graphology, is being used by companies while recruiting, as a personality assessment test. Handwriting Analysis is not about the written words but more about the hidden meaning and what's written between the lines.

An astrology website has announced the launch of free graphology software that's available for download at http://www.graphology.name/. According to the site, MysticBoard.com, "This is an interesting and unique tool which helps one assess their personality."

"A hard rain’s a-gonna fall," Dylan sang. But when rain and storm surges fall on lands protected by weak levees, this means trouble…big trouble. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were devastating reminders of this frightening fact. How then can we limit trouble when a levee breaches or, better yet, prevent such a break from ever happening again?

...So the powerful Randy Newman song goes. But when rain and storm surges fall on lands protected by weak levees, this means trouble…big trouble. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were devastating reminders of this frightening fact. How then can we limit trouble when a levee breaches or, better yet, prevent such a break from ever happening again?

Imagine cruising the heavens from your desktop and seeing all the spectacular images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Exploding stars and faraway galaxies are just a mouse click away today through Sky in Google Earth. Sky in Google Earth is produced by Google, the company that hosts the popular Internet search engine, through a partnership with the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, the science operations center for Hubble.

Imagine cruising the heavens from your desktop and seeing all the spectacular images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Exploding stars and faraway galaxies are just a mouse click away through Sky in Google Earth.

This report on the effects of pollution in the North Pacific would seem to paraphrase the old antiwar poster poster from the 60s: Pollution is not healthy for children and other living things."

A new study provides some of the first evidence that albatrosses in the North Pacific may be affected by environmental contamination. Alterations in the immune function of the black-footed albatross were associated with elevated blood levels of nonpoint source contaminants. This study is published in the latest issue of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

S. David Freeman, the energy guru known as the "Green Cowboy," has written the first must-read book that tells the American people the truth about this country's dependence on foreign oil, dirty coal and dangerous nuclear power -- what he calls the "Three Poisons." His new book, "Winning Our Energy Independence: An Energy Insider Shows How," delivers a wealth of facts and candid opinions on renewable resources with blunt straight talk. His message: We have all the renewable energy we need to wean ourselves from the Three Poisons and create a sustainable future for our planet.

At last -- a voice that cuts through the propaganda and puts all the pieces of our nation's energy puzzle together in plain English while providing practical, common-sense answers.

Subtle shifts in the carbon content of the Earth's atmosphere are clearly writ in the bones of wolves, say scientists from Michigan Technological University.

Environmental change in the Earth’s atmosphere is clearly writ in the bones of wolves, scientists from Michigan Technological University have discovered.

To track atmospheric change caused by human activity, researchers have long studied a variety of materials, from tree rings to air trapped in glacial ice. A problem has been "noise" - natural variability caused by sampling and random events that affect atmospheric chemistry. Noise can make it hard to tease out trends from the data.

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Wolf bones have proved a more reliable measure of environmental atmospheric
change than tree rings, researchers at Michigan Technological University have
discovered.