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Prehistoric response to global warming informs human planning today
Since 2004, University at Buffalo anthropologist Ezra Zubrow has worked intensively with teams of scientists in the Arctic regions of St. James Bay, Quebec, northern Finland and Kamchatka to ...
21 hours ago from PhysOrg
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The smell of salt air, a mile high and 900 miles inland
The smell of sea salt in the air is a romanticized feature of life along a seacoast. Wind and waves kick up spray, and bits of sodium chloride - common table salt - can permeate the air.
Wed 10 Mar 10 from PhysOrg
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Texas earthquakes may be linked to wells for gas mining
Saltwater pumped into the earth to release natural gas offers a "plausible," but not definitive, explanation for small quakes ...
18 hours ago from USA today
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Meteorites may have kick-started life on Earth
Meteorites that bombarded Earth four billion years ago could have kick-started life rather than wiping it out, a study shows.
12 hours ago from Telegraph.co.uk
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Researchers show how far South American cities moved in quake
The massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck the west coast of Chile last month moved the entire city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west, and shifted other parts of South America ...
Mon 8 Mar 10 from PhysOrg
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90Q: A curious short-lived 'tropical' cyclone in the southern Atlantic
Tropical cyclones typically don't form in the Southern Atlantic because the waters are usually too cool. However, forecasters at the Naval Research Laboratory noted that a low pressure system ...
20 hours ago from PhysOrg
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Earthquake in Chile -- a complicated fracture
The extremely strong earthquake in Chile on 27 February this year was a complicated rupture process, as scientists from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences found out. Quakes with ...
Tue 9 Mar 10 from PhysOrg
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Increased solar radiation requires an extra reduction in CO2 emissions
(PhysOrg.com) -- The recently observed reduction in air pollution implies that more solar radiation reaches the Earth's surface. This could lead to a far more rapid increase in the Earth's temperature ...
Wed 10 Mar 10 from PhysOrg
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Not more quakes, just more people in quake zones
First the ground shook in Haiti, then Chile and now Turkey. The earthquakes keep coming hard and fast this year, causing people ...
Tue 9 Mar 10 from USA today
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Engineers deployed to Chile to study earthquake's impacts
Engineers from the University of California, Berkeley, are traveling to Chile to help coordinate U.S. reconnaissance efforts to document the effects of the massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake that ...
Tue 9 Mar 10 from PhysOrg
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