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A team of scientists will use a World War II-era plane to explore one of the last uncharted regions of Earth, in hopes of learning more about climate change.
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Scientists hope to shed light on how massive cloud systems over the Pacific Ocean affect global climate and weather systems.
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For more than a decade, the federal government has spent millions of dollars pumping elevated levels of carbon dioxide into small groups of trees to test how forests will respond to global warming in the next 50 years.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp, Dell Inc and Intel Corp stand out among technology and consumer-products companies for their policies directed at averting climate change, according to a study released on Thursday.
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From uranium mining to "green" businesses, the environment proved to be one of the hot topics Thursday night at a federal all-candidates forum in Whitehorse.
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The group was formed in response to the Chatsworth Metrolink crash that killed 25 people. A report on improving operations is due in 60 days. In the wake of the devastating Chatsworth train crash last month, Metrolink's board today appointed an 11-person panel of industry experts to take a comprehensive look at commuter rail safety and operating procedures.
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The push for an indigenous shipping service within the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (Comesa) is on its way to fruition.
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A study by the Australian National University's centre for mental health research found that there is no evidence to suggest that impending motherhood affects a woman's cognitive ability. The research is based on analysis of interviews with 2,500 women aged
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The group was formed in response to the Chatsworth crash that killed 25 people. A report on improving operations is due in 60 days. In the wake of the devastating Chatsworth train crash last month, Metrolink's board Friday appointed an 11-member panel of industry experts to take a comprehensive look at the commuter rail's safety and operating procedures.
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The caption calls him the "high priest of deceit and global destruction". The picture has him belching fire like a dragon. And who is the subject of this highly personal attack? None other than Al Gore, who last year won the Nobel Peace Prize, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for their success in bringing the climate-change crisis to global public attention.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran says the recent steep slide in oil prices and worsening global financial crisis will be studied carefully before it makes a proposal on output reductions for OPEC, the Islamic Republic's OPEC governor said on Sunday.
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A report just published by an expert group of the Higher Education Authority (HEA) has cast a cloud over the celebrations which greeted last week's news that Trinity College Dublin had for the first time broken into the Top 50 of the world's best universities.
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The economic free fall gripping the nation may bring down one of the main environmental objectives: capping the greenhouse gases that are blamed for global warming.
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A scientific study for the European Union found that listening to personal music players at high volume can threaten permanent hearing loss.
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On issues such as abortion, gay marriage and religion, college students shift noticeably to the left from the time they arrive on campus through their junior year, new research shows....
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If your man has good sperm quality, he may be incredibly smart, according to a University of New Mexico study.
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On issues such as abortion, gay marriage and religion, college students shift noticeably to the left from the time they arrive on campus through their junior year, new research shows.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A long-term analysis of people who took the arthritis drug Vioxx confirms it doubles the risk of strokes and heart attacks, researchers said on Monday, but this risk goes away a year after people stop taking it.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A study of nearly 40,000 women has found no overall link between caffeine and breast cancer, though some women who have benign breast lumps might be at a higher risk, researcher said on Monday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Despite their reputation as lovers not fighters of the primate world, bonobos actually hunt and eat other great apes, German researchers said Monday.
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By creating reserves, researchers have given animals the safehouses they need to thrive. But as climate change encroaches on that territory, they'll need escape routes to survive
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Breast cancer may worsen in some women who drink four or more cups of coffee a day, but consuming coffee and other caffeinated beverages doesn't seem to increase the overall risk of getting malignant breast cancer, researchers say.
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A LANDMARK ruling could compel the Government to break Cabinet confidentiality in the specific areas of emissions and global warming.
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An environmental study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is expected to lock in proposed fuel economy increases in preparation for its final regulations, which will be announced in November. The report suggests a 4.5% per year increase in...
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Thai riot police officers used a cheap Chinese tear gas, which contained an explosive powerful, to disperse protesters, an investigator said.
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It's possible to drink your way to a smaller brain, according to new study that links alcohol consumption with lower total brain volume.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Even before the collapse of major U.S. banks and the Dow's plunge, the rolls of America's working poor grew as their piece of the U.S. economic pie shrank, according to a study released on Tuesday.
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Fewer immigrants are choosing to settle in Montreal, according to a study released in early October by Institut de la Statistique du Québec.
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Deciding what to click on next when searching the internet may help stimulate the brain of middle-aged and older adults beyond the benefits of reading alone, researchers have found.
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Consuming even small amounts of alcohol seems to shrink the brain, researchers have found.
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The problems of climate change grow faster than the public's perception.
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Relief over the success of Europe's intervention in the banking crisis will give way Wednesday to discord over climate change.
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Survey concludes more than 200,000 Medicare patient deaths over 2 years could have been prevented had all hospitals performed as well as the best ones.
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The Virginia State Crime Commission has agreed to study better ways to notify felons that old DNA evidence was found in their cases after hearing that only about a quarter of them have confirmed receiving letters mailed last month.
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