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A new fossil found in the Dry Valleys in the eastern regions of Antarctica, known to have lived some 14 million years ago in an ancient lake, now provides scientists with new evidence that indeed the south polar region of the planet was much warmer in the past. The fossil is a class of crustacea known as ostracods an... |
23 July 2008
02:38 GMT |
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More than 500 fossils of teeth and bones belonging to species of rodents, horses, crocodiles and turtles found near the Panama Canal, dated to have lived as far as 20 million years ago could provide some information regarding the period when the North and South American continents became connected to each other, say ... |
18 July 2008
05:59 GMT |
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The mission controllers of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander decided to delay the beginning of the digging operations for a day in order to better learn how to scoop samples of soil from the Martian surface. The lander was scheduled to start gathering soil sample for analysis today, but they decided that Phoenix must f... |
4 June 2008
07:04 GMT |
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Phoenix Mars Lander, designed to carry NASA's 420 million US dollar three month mission to the Red Planet, which touched down on the surface just a little over a week ago, made its first dig test in the Martian soil on Sunday with the 2.4 meter long robotic arm, revealing bright white bits of material that could... |
3 June 2008
05:57 GMT |
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It is most certain that Earth's clime took a severe turn towards global warming ever since the Industrial Revolution began. Greenhouse gas concentrations have been rising steadily since, but one cannot stop wondering what the Sun's part is in all this. How does the Sun itself affect the clime of our planet?... |
9 May 2008
06:46 GMT |
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In small amounts ice is a solid, brittle, crystalline material. But in ticker layers, of 60-100 m (200-330 ft), the part situated underneath behaves like a plastic material, engaged in a slow flow, so that the whole ice mass spreads over an extended area or displace on slopes. That's why a glacier behaves like a... |
27 March 2008
17:51 GMT |
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We are losing our mountain glaciers, and we're losing them increasingly fast. A report made by the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS), supported by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), shows that the speed of glacier melting has increased by more than twice from 1980, being a serious clime change ... |
21 March 2008
05:47 GMT |
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Glaciers appear only on high mountains and around the Poles. Through their movements, the ice blocks shape distinct relief forms, like U-shaped valleys, while the eroded matter is deposed as moraines. At the edge of glacial regions, there can be found periglacial areas. Temperatures are still low, but with a slightly... |
25 January 2008
06:23 GMT |
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Diseases can be genetic or (most often) determined by the environmental factors. World Health Organization says that annually 25 million adults and children die of causes that could be prevented. 1.Clime. Too hot or too cold is bad. In warm climes, hot weather makes people experience "tiredness", fainting, lack of e... |
11 January 2008
14:31 GMT |
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Similar to its sister planet Earth, Mars has a season change, which depends on the position it occupies on its orbit, and a clime caused by the tilt the planet presented in relation to the Sun. During the southern winter, the north pole is tilted more towards the Sun, thus the south pole receives less light and cools... |
12 December 2007
07:52 GMT |
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We don't know when we will be able to cultivate bananas in the open in Alaska, but in New York it seems sooner than we might have thought. A new research, published in "Nature Geoscience", points out that the Earth's tropics may have traveled northward in the past 30 years, more than global warming could ha... |
4 December 2007
03:46 GMT |
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Do you think this summer was hot? In this case, prepare yourselves, this is just the beginning: the next 10 summers will be similar. Temperature records will be repeatedly broken in the next decade, as signaled by a first rigorous approach on the global climate for the next 10 years. Scientists based their results on... |
10 August 2007
04:15 GMT |
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Why does the world have to stand the British insular arrogance? Because of a biblical megaflood that cut the British Isles off from mainland Europe during the Ice Age. 3-D sonar mapping of the English Channel has shown that this must have occurred somewhere between 450,000 and 200,000 years ago. "It is probably one o... |
19 July 2007
05:39 GMT |
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Currently, we play with the clime of our planet, hoping for the minimum results. Ice core probes from deep drills made on the Antarctica, employed to investigate climate during the past hundreds of thousands of years, revealed that warm periods corresponded with high carbon dioxide levels and cold ones with low level... |
2 May 2007
19:21 GMT |
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Will global warming change all the "beauty" of the British climate?Researchers believe some climate types could disappear from the Earth entirely, not just shift from their current locations, while new climate type could emerge if the planet keeps on with the current trend. "Such changes would endanger some plants an... |
27 March 2007
06:24 GMT |
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