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February 13, 2012 12:01 PM
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World Bank Frets Over Urban Flooding in Asia
TOKYO—"Flooding is the most common of natural disasters [and] it is increasingly an Asian phenomenon," Abhas Jha, a World Bank disaster management expert, said today at a briefing here,...
February 9, 2012 5:53 PM
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Icebreaker's Good Deed Creates Scheduling Headaches for Arctic Researchers
In November, the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy helped deliver an emergency load of fuel oil to icebound Nome, Alaska. But the unplanned rescue is now wreaking havoc with...
February 8, 2012 11:04 AM
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Russians Drill Into Subglacial Antarctic Lake Vostok
Yep, they did it: A team of Russian scientists has drilled 3769.3 meters through the Antarctic ice to reach the surface of buried Lake Vostok, the team announced this...
February 6, 2012 2:31 PM
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Antarctica's Lake Vostok: Are They There Yet?
Russia's Antarctic team may have reached Lake Vostok at last. Russian news agency RIA Novosti is reporting that the team has at last completed its marathon drill through the...
January 18, 2012 10:58 AM
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All Eyes on Antarctic Drillers at Scott Expedition Centennial
Along with all the festivities surrounding the anniversary of explorer Robert Falcon Scott's reaching the South Pole on 17 January 1912, Antarctic researchers are at the edge of their...
January 13, 2012 2:28 PM
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Why NOAA Is in the Commerce Department
Now it's official. In announcing a reorganization of the Department of Commerce to elevate the importance of small businesses, President Barack Obama today confirmed the rumored political shenanigans surrounding...
December 29, 2011 4:48 PM
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Updated: NSF Picks Lockheed for Huge Antarctic Support Contract
Lockheed Martin has won a contract worth up to $2 billion to support U.S. science in Antarctica. The National Science Foundation (NSF) selected the
Maryland-based aerospace giant yesterday in...
December 8, 2011 3:30 PM
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Witness Questions Experts' Analysis in Trial of Italian Quake Scientists
An Italian geophysicist who attended a meeting at the center of a trial alleging scientific negligence in connection with the deadly 2009 L'Aquila earthquake told a court that he had...
October 18, 2011 5:07 PM
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U.S. Atmospheric Research Effort Gets New Head
Space weather expert Thomas Bogdan will soon move from merely supervising U.S. forecasting of the space weather raining down on Earth to heading the nation's leading scientific organization whose...
October 4, 2011 3:46 PM
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Panel Doubts U.S. Biofuels Goals Will Be Reached
The United States is unlikely to produce enough biofuel by 2022 to meet some congressionally mandated targets, according to an analysis released today by a National Research Council (NRC)...
September 19, 2011 12:00 PM
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UPDATED: Atlas Shrugged? 'Outraged' Glaciologists Say Mappers Misrepresented Greenland Ice Melt
CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM—So much for claims that climate scientists deliberately misrepresent their data: glaciologists are broadly and loudly panning the latest version of The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the...
August 19, 2011 11:58 AM
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Geologists Ship Out, Hoping to Claim Piece of Arctic for Canada
With two research icebreakers, over 100 geologists and geographers from Canada and the United States, three Inuit mammal spotters on the watch for vulnerable wildlife, and two underwater autonomous...
July 20, 2011 11:36 AM
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Australia Resorts to Gunboat Climatology
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA—Under threat from pirates, Australian researchers have enlisted naval muscle to plug a critical gap in climate monitoring in the Indian Ocean. Over the past 2 years, pirates operating...
July 15, 2011 5:00 PM
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House Appropriators Propose Big Cuts to Earth Sciences
Deep cuts in earth science budgets for several U.S. agencies are in store next year under a proposed budget that awaits a vote by the House of Representatives. Under the...
July 8, 2011 5:14 PM
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New U.S. Program Funds Research Collaborations in Developing World
The 13 million people living in Dhaka, Bangladesh, sit on an "earthquake bomb," says seismologist Syed Humayun Akhter of the University of Dhaka. But as recently as a decade...
July 6, 2011 1:05 PM
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India Loosens Policy on Sharing Remote Sensing Imagery
NEW DELHI—Under fire for its antiquated approach to data sharing, the Indian government on 4 July unveiled a new policy covering its remote sensing satellites. The Indian Space Research...
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