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Data shed new light on night clouds
Jan 2 2008 9:39PM (CT)
HAMPTON, Va. (AP) - A Hampton University professor is shedding new light on night-shining clouds that might be affected by climate change. Jim Russell is the lead scientist for the NASA-funded AIM satellite, the first to study the wispy "noctilucent" clouds, which only appear above Earth's poles.
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Nature and man jointly cook Arctic
Jan 2 2008 9:38PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - There's more to the recent dramatic and alarming thawing of the Arctic region than can be explained by man-made global warming alone, a new study found. Nature is pushing the Arctic to the edge, too.
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8 bighorn sheep die in Colorado
Jan 2 2008 6:05PM (CT)
GUNNISON, Colo. (AP) - Eight Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep died in southwest Colorado last month, and all showed signs of pneumonia, state wildlife officers said Wednesday.
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Purdue students sniff manure for science
Jan 2 2008 5:47PM (CT)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - Purdue University students are making some extra cash through a project that might turn some of their classmates' stomachs _ by sniffing livestock excrement. Students earn $30 per session as they take whiffs of a variety of smells collected from barns filled with hogs, cows and chickens for odor research being conducted by Albert Heber, a Purdue professor of agricultural and biological engineering.
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Climate scientist Bert Bolin dies at 82
Jan 2 2008 12:46PM (CT)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Bert Bolin, a pioneering Swedish climate scientist and co-founder of the U.N.'s Nobel award-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has died, his colleague Henning Rodhe said Wednesday. He was 82.
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