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February 7, 2011 4:21 PM
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Sealed-Off Lake Still Tantalizingly Out of Reach
The Russian team that has been drilling for 24 hours a day to reach the sub-glacial Lake Vostok that lies at the bottom of a 3750-meter-thick ice sheet in...
February 3, 2011 4:18 PM
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Russians Approach Pristine Antarctic Lake
Russian scientists drilling toward Lake Vostok, an enormous body of fresh water sealed off beneath Antarctic ice for 35 million years, have until Sunday to reach their goal before...
January 13, 2011 1:19 PM
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New Schedule Seen to Improve/Strengthen Impacts Portion of IPCC Report
Climate scientists hope to improve the most contentious section of the next report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) by changing how they deal with uncertain data,...
January 6, 2011 2:37 PM
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Oil Spill Commission Roundup: 'A Failure of Management'
The presidential oil spill commission has released one chapter of its final report focused on one aspect of the calamity: Most of the mistakes and oversights at Macondo can...
December 30, 2010 3:02 PM
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On Eve of New Climate Regs, A Primer, Part II: Lawsuits
Yesterday ScienceInsider went through the implications of new federal rules on greenhouse gases for industries which pollute the air with these pollutants. But legal challenges could complicate an already...
December 29, 2010 4:13 PM
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On Eve of New Climate Regs, A Primer on the Federal Greenhouse Gas Regime: Part I
For 2 years industry officials, states, and environmentalists have had 2 January 2011 circled on their calendars. That's the date greenhouse gases officially become regulated pollutants under the Clean...
December 17, 2010 5:57 PM
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Politics Buried Science in Louisiana Sand Berms, Oil Commission Finds
The idea to guard against this year's BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico by building offshore sand berms was controversial from the start, and scientists voiced many...
December 17, 2010 4:39 PM
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'Come Hell or High Water': How U.S. and U.K. Scientists Got to Map East Antarctica
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA—A presentation at the American Geophysical Union here yesterday offered preliminary findings from a 5-year project to map the subglacial topography of East Antarctic. And while ICECAP...
December 17, 2010 2:09 PM
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Going Green, Top British Climate Lab Sends Only Three Scientists to U.S. Meeting
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA—The U.K. Met Office includes hundreds of the world's most prominent experts in weather, climate, and atmospheric science. But only three of them came across the Atlantic...
December 10, 2010 12:45 PM
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Science Criticized in Cancún for Timing of Paper on Cloud Feedback
A climate skeptic has suggested that Science tried to influence the climate change talks ending today in Cancún, Mexico, by publishing a paper that supports the idea that clouds...
December 2, 2010 5:56 PM
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In Cancún, Brazil Touts Progress Stopping Deforestation
Brazil's delegation is heading to the COP16 meeting in Cancún with something to crow about. At a ceremony Wednesday in Brasília, officials said that deforestation in the Amazon has...
November 17, 2010 10:15 AM
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Live Coverage: House Climate Hearing
ScienceInsider is blogging live from the House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee's hearing on climate science going on right now, along with NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt (who usually...
November 16, 2010 7:08 PM
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Live Blogging House Science Committee, 10:30 A.M. Wednesday
I'll be providing live coverage of the House science committee hearing on climate science using Cover-it-Live, which will mean rolling, real-time transcript here on ScienceInsider starting at 10:30 a.m. Offering...
November 8, 2010 11:30 AM
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Two New Climate Science Outreach Efforts On Tap
Two separate outreach efforts by climate scientists are in the works: one organized by John Abraham of the University of St. Thomas, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and another by...
October 29, 2010 5:45 PM
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House Science Chair Enters Debate Over Biodiversity Pact's Bar on Climate Engineering
The House science committee has just released a report on climate engineering that lays out possible roles for federal agencies and international partners in the new, controversial field. By...
October 14, 2010 5:40 PM
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Convention Considers Ban on Global Sun-Blocking Schemes
Next week's meeting of the 193-nation Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya, Japan, will tackle such controversial issues as funding for the Global Environment Facility, hard-to-reach biodiversity targets,...
October 12, 2010 12:10 PM
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On Climate Change, the Party of No
National Journal examines the state of scientific literacy on climate among Republican candidates for senate and finds dismal results: This year, when Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., spent months negotiating...
October 6, 2010 5:14 PM
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Oil Spill Panel Says EPA, NOAA Weren't Ready to Deploy Dispersants
The staff members of a presidential commission today criticized the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for being inadequately prepared to deal with...
October 1, 2010 5:34 PM
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Nations Strengthen Pact to Stem Methane Pollution
A coalition of 38 nations and several international groups have launched the Global Methane Initiative, accelerating shared efforts to cut pollution of a gas that accounts for about one-fifth...
September 29, 2010 3:30 PM
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Report: U.S. Needs National Strategy for Adapting to Warmer Climes
The federal government is way behind on efforts to develop effective strategies to adapt to a changing climate, a new report to the White House says today. "Even with...
September 27, 2010 5:31 PM
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With Emissions Caps on Ice, Is Geoengineering Next Step in D.C. Climate Debate?
A 5-hour public conference today in Washington, D.C., on geoengineering research highlighted a growing focus in the nation's capital on the controversial idea of devising technical remedies for the...
September 21, 2010 1:05 PM
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More Coming on Warming From French Academy
PARIS—Revelations and contradictions from the closed-door debate on climate change at the French Academy of Sciences yesterday continue to make their way into the press, but how much was...
September 20, 2010 6:04 PM
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Veil Lifted on French Academy Debate on Climate
PARIS—The French Academy of Sciences finally produced a statement after a full day of debate on climate change Monday that had been shrouded in secrecy. The debate followed a...
September 3, 2010 12:01 PM
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Creating Clearer Climate Computer Codes
British software engineers Nick Barnes and David Jones have spent the past 3 years trying to simplify computer codes used to analyze world temperature records. Today they unveiled a...
August 30, 2010 3:59 PM
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Judge Blocks Virginia's Request for Global Warming Records
A county circuit court judge today quashed a subpoena issued by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli that sought documents related to work by climate scientist Michael Mann, according to...
August 30, 2010 3:08 PM
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Panel Calls for 'Fundamental Reform' of IPCC
A new review of the procedures of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gives the influential science organization a solid B+ for its 2 decades of assessments of...
August 30, 2010 10:50 AM
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Blogging Live: The IPCC Review
The InterAcademy Council, a coalition of world science academies, has released a 113-page review of the management of the world's most prominent climate body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
August 24, 2010 6:08 PM
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Bits of Good News From the Gulf
BOSTON—The news out of the Gulf of Mexico doesn't look too bleak, according to preliminary reports here today at the semiannual meeting of the American Chemical Society. The researchers...
August 20, 2010 1:05 PM
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New Light on Spilled Oil, But Only a Bit
A widely reported paper in Science this week shows that microbes were not rapidly degrading the oil in a plume streaming from the blown-out BP well in late June....
August 17, 2010 11:10 AM
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Aussie Academy: Warming Is Real, Dangerous
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA—In the run-up to national elections on 21 August, the country's top science body, the Australian Academy of Science (AAS), has weighed in on the climate change debate...
August 10, 2010 5:18 PM
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Huge Area for Fishing Reopened as Seafood Threat Lessens
NOAA has reopened more than 13,000 square kilometers of the Gulf of Mexico to fishing. "Since July 3, NOAA data have shown no oil in [this] area," a NOAA...
August 10, 2010 11:14 AM
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Live Tweeting: Hearing on Petermann Glacier Slide
Last week, a large chunk of ice broke off from Greenland's Petermann Glacier. This morning, the U.S. House of Representatives hastily organized a hearing to discuss the implications. Reporter...
August 5, 2010 10:41 AM
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Federal Scientists: Guarded Optimism on Oil Spill
The overall mood at the White House yesterday was upbeat with the news that there’s seemingly less of a risk of ecological impacts of oil and that the well is...
August 4, 2010 1:27 PM
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Mother Nature Having Her Way With Gulf Oil
Fully three-quarters of the estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil that spewed from BP's Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico bypassed efforts to collect it or burn it...
August 2, 2010 2:00 PM
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Five Ways Oil Drops Could Still Be Deadly to Gulf
Last week the debate about the fate of oil in the gulf took, according to major media reports, an optimistic turn. Now Representative Ed Markey (D–MA) is raising questions...
July 29, 2010 11:50 AM
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Scientists Balk at BP Recruitment Efforts, Restrictive Contracts
Last Thursday, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) blasted BP for its "chilling" practice of slapping restrictive confidentiality agreements on the university scientists it has hired to study...
July 23, 2010 3:26 PM
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Qualified Good News on Subsea Dispersed Oil Plumes: Continued Low Oil Concentrations, No Dead Zones
A second report by a multiagency team of government and academic scientists, working on five research vessels between 19 May and 19 June finds the distribution of the plumes...
July 22, 2010 5:58 PM
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As Climate Bill Falters, Steve Schneider Might Have Counseled Optimism
Seeing the official downfall for the year of any climate legislation in Congress—a development so depressing to many—I thought of climatologist Steve Schneider, who passed away on Monday at...
July 22, 2010 5:19 PM
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Storm Headed for the Gulf Spill Could Delay Final Fix
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, have designated an atmospheric disturbance just south of the Bahamas as Tropical Depression 3. They are calling for it to...
July 22, 2010 3:38 PM
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Reid Says Climate Bill Dead in Senate
As of 2 p.m. EDT today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he just didn't have the required 60 votes to beat a promised filibuster on the floor for...
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