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Rich ore deposits linked to ancient atmosphere

Using geochemical clues from rocks nearly 3 billion years old, a group of scientists including Andrey Bekker and Doug Rumble from the Carnegie Institution have…

SMOS satellite instrument comes alive

“Following the switch-on, MIRAS is working beautifully well with all key subsystems, including all of the receivers, the optical fibres and the correlator…

Scientists Unravel Evolution of Highly Toxic Box Jellyfish

With thousands of stinging cells that can emit deadly venom from tentacles that can reach ten feet in length, the 50 or so species of box jellyfish have long…

Oceans' uptake of manmade carbon may be slowing

The oceans play a key role in regulating climate, absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide that humans put into the air. Now, the first year-by-year…

Global Temperature Report — October 2009

The only October in the past 31 that was warmer in the tropics than last month was October 1987, when the average temperature in the tropics was 0.53 C (about…

Fossil fuel CO2 emissions up by 29 percent since 2000

An international team of researchers under the umbrella of the Global Carbon Project reports that over the last 50 years the average fraction of global CO2…

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