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Global monsoon drives long-term carbon cycles in the ocean

For over 300 years, monsoon has been considered as a gigantic land-sea breeze of regional scale, but now it is considered as a global system over all…

Rules proposed to save the world's coral reefs

Their proposal is being unveiled at the World Ocean Conference 2009 in Manado, Indonesia, where leaders of six regional governments plus Australia and the…

Islands top a global list of places to protect

Although islands tend to harbor fewer species than continental lands of similar size, plants and animals found on islands often live only there, making…

Rise of Oxygen Caused Earth's Earliest Ice Age

Scientists from the University of Maryland, including post-doctoral fellows Boswell Wing and Sang-Tae Kim, graduate student Margaret Baker, and professors Alan…

Rise of Oxygen Caused Earth's Earliest Ice Age

An international team of geologists may have uncovered the answer to an age-old question – an ice-age-old question, that is. It appears that Earth's earliest…

Bioelectricity promises more 'miles per acre' than ethanol

Researchers writing in the online edition of the May 7 Science magazine say the best bet is to convert the biomass to electricity, rather than ethanol. They…

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