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MIT designs 'invisible,' floating wind turbines

Today's offshore wind turbines usually stand on towers driven deep into the ocean floor. But that arrangement works only in water depths of about 15 meters or…

ICSU hosts conference on hazards and disasters

The conference, which took place in conjunction with the official inauguration of ICSU’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, addressed how science could…

Boat paint to blame for Norfolk Broads’ desolation

In the current issue of the journal Environmental Science & Technology, they reveal that introduction of the compound tributyltin (TBT) as a biocide in boat…

Stratospheric injections could help cool Earth, computer model shows

Wigley calculates the impact of injecting sulfate particles, or aerosols, every one to four years into the stratosphere in amounts equal to those lofted by the…

Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer detects vast polar ethane cloud on Titan

The cloud may be the clue needed in solving a puzzle that has confounded scientists who so far have seen little evidence of a veil of ethane clouds and surface…

Arctic sea ice diminished rapidly in 2004 and 2005

The overall decrease in winter Arctic perennial sea ice totaled 730,000 square kilometers [280,000 square miles]–an area the size of Texas. Perennial ice can…

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