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Detection Of Methane Leak From Space Could Herald A Revolution
The breakthrough could herald a revolution in the way methane leaks from oil and gas facilities are detected, helping to stanch a major source of greenhouse gas pollution around the world. GHGSat …
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How to withstand extreme weather? Science is coming up with these solutions – Tri-City Herald
How to withstand extreme weather? Science is coming up with these solutions Tri-City Herald
Spring may be just around the corner, but according to the National Weather *Service* this year’s February snowfall in the Tri-Cities was the most on record since …
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Storm-o-nomics: Why Australia should be more prepared for extreme weather – Sydney Morning Herald
Storm-o-nomics: Why Australia should be more prepared for extreme weather Sydney Morning Herald
We need to prepare for more frequent, and more intense, extreme weather events.
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Seals reveal Antarctica’s climate-change clues – New Zealand Herald
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Seals reveal Antarctica's climate-change clues
New Zealand Herald Scientists are turning to an unlikely instrument to tell them how quickly Antarctica's ice sheets are melting: seals. In a just-published study, UK researchers have shown how tagging seals with satellite trackers can help them measure hard-to-reach … |
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Extreme weather playing havoc | Deccan Herald – Deccan Herald
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Extreme weather playing havoc | Deccan Herald
Deccan Herald The severe sandstorms and thunderstorms that hit parts of northern and western India last week were an unusual weather phenomenon of rare fury, hardly seen … |
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Scientists discover new melting process in Antarctica – NZ Herald – New Zealand Herald
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Scientists discover new melting process in Antarctica – NZ Herald
New Zealand Herald Scientists have discovered a worrying process that speeds up the melting of Antarctica's ice – and the rate of resulting sea level rise. A just-published Australian study found how melting glacial ice sheets make the ocean's surface layer less salty … ANTARCTICA IS 'A NATURAL RESERVE, DEVOTED TO PEACE AND SCIENCE' Glacier melting in Antarctica leads to Warm Ocean water calve more … Sea levels rising rapidly, new satellite research shows |
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Deadly strain of mutated bird flu ‘could kill 300 million people’ – Plymouth Herald
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Deadly strain of mutated bird flu 'could kill 300 million people'
Plymouth Herald The last pandemic hit in 2009-10 when swine flu emerged in Mexico, while the deadly Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 claimed up to 100 million lives. Also known as avian flu, three strains have caused concern in recent years – H5N1, H7N9 and H5N6. Of those … Mutated bird flu strain 'could kill 300 million people' Killer flu pandemic 'could hit any time' – wiping out 300 MILLION … Killer flu pandemic 'could hit tomorrow' and kill more than 300 million people across the world, scientist warns |
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Navy captain dies after falling overboard in Antarctica – The Sydney Morning Herald
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Navy captain dies after falling overboard in Antarctica
The Sydney Morning Herald Madrid: A Spanish navy captain has died in Antarctica after accidentally falling into the sea from a polar research vessel. Javier Montojo Salazar disappeared from on board the Hesperides near the Juan Carlos I base on Livingston Island on Friday, the … Spanish navy captain dies in Antarctica after falling into the sea … Spanish navy captain Javier Montojo Salazar dies in Antarctica – BBC Navy captain overboard in Antarctica |
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Dancing on Antarctica ice a historic first for Kiwi dancer – New Zealand Herald
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Dancing on Antarctica ice a historic first for Kiwi dancer
New Zealand Herald A frozen desert home to scientists, researchers, penguins and seals, Antarctica is not the kind of place you expect to find dancers performing outdoors especially given temperatures as low as -89.2C. At the height of summer, it reaches just 5C. But a … |