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Ominous Arctic melt worries experts
Dec 11 2007 11:04PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point. One even speculated that summer sea ice would be gone in five years.
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Ominous Arctic melt worries experts
Dec 11 2007 11:04PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point. One even speculated that summer sea ice would be gone in five years.
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Energy source of northern lights found
Dec 11 2007 11:03PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Scientists think they have discovered the energy source of the spectacular color displays seen in the northern lights. New data from NASA's Themis mission, a quintet of satellites launched this winter, found the energy comes from a stream of charged particles from the sun flowing like a current through twisted bundles of magnetic fields connecting Earth's upper atmosphere to the sun.
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Researchers: Human evolution speeding up
Dec 11 2007 6:11PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Science fiction writers have suggested a future Earth populated by a blend of all races into a common human form. In real life, the reverse seems to be happening. People are evolving more rapidly than in the distant past, with residents of various continents becoming increasingly different from one another, researchers say.
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Researchers find new deep water coral
Dec 11 2007 6:11PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Researchers have discovered what they believe is a new deep water coral and sponge beds found several thousands of feet below the ocean surface, officials said Monday.
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Researchers find new deep water coral
Dec 11 2007 6:11PM (CT)
HONOLULU (AP) - Researchers have discovered what they believe is a new deep water coral and sponge beds found several thousands of feet below the ocean surface, officials said Monday.
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Experts study Lake Champlain eel decline
Dec 11 2007 6:10PM (CT)
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Scientists are trying to determine what caused Lake Champlain's populations of American eels to decline to almost nothing over the last two decades.
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NASA will fill shuttle tank in test
Dec 11 2007 6:07PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA will fill the space shuttle Atlantis' fuel tank next week in hopes of cracking a vexing fuel gauge problem that led to back-to-back launch delays, the agency said Tuesday.
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Emission cuts debated at climate summit
Dec 11 2007 11:23AM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - Delegates at the U.N. climate conference struggled to agree Tuesday on whether they will call on rich nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions by specific amounts, and the U.N. chief warned that the human race faces oblivion if it fails to confront global warming.
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Emission cuts debated at climate summit
Dec 11 2007 11:23AM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - Delegates at the U.N. climate conference struggled to agree Tuesday on whether they will call on rich nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions by specific amounts, and the U.N. chief warned that the human race faces oblivion if it fails to confront global warming.
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Emission cuts debated at climate summit
Dec 11 2007 11:23AM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - Delegates at the U.N. climate conference struggled to agree Tuesday on whether they will call on rich nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions by specific amounts, and the U.N. chief warned that the human race faces oblivion if it fails to confront global warming.
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Emission cuts debated at climate summit
Dec 11 2007 11:23AM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - Delegates at the U.N. climate conference struggled to agree Tuesday on whether they will call on rich nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions by specific amounts, and the U.N. chief warned that the human race faces oblivion if it fails to confront global warming.
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Kyoto climate pact a decade old
Dec 11 2007 3:06AM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - The American vice president was an environmentalist and the U.S. Congress was conservative. China and India were on the fringes of the climate change debate. And big business said going green would strangle industry.
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Kyoto climate pact a decade old
Dec 11 2007 3:06AM (CT)
BALI, Indonesia (AP) - The American vice president was an environmentalist and the U.S. Congress was conservative. China and India were on the fringes of the climate change debate. And big business said going green would strangle industry.
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Voyager 2 finds solar system is uneven
Dec 11 2007 12:46AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - New observations from NASA's long-running Voyager 2 spacecraft show the solar system is asymmetrical, likely from disturbances in the interstellar magnetic field, scientists reported Monday.
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