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…
Their proposal is being unveiled at the World Ocean Conference 2009 in Manado, Indonesia, where leaders of six regional governments plus Australia and the…
Although islands tend to harbor fewer species than continental lands of similar size, plants and animals found on islands often live only there, making…
Scientists from the University of Maryland, including post-doctoral fellows Boswell Wing and Sang-Tae Kim, graduate student Margaret Baker, and professors Alan…
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…
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…