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Pole-to-Pole Flights Yield New Climate Data

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A three-year, government-funded effort to track the movement of greenhouse gases throughout the atmosphere has yielded surprising results that could help improve the accuracy of climate models. Researchers used a specially equipped plane for a series of pole-to-pole flights to measure the concentrations of greenhouse gases and black carbon particles at different altitudes, different locations and different times of the year

Heat and Fires Scorch South as Drought Toll Rises

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By Carey Gillam KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Raging wildfires and scorching heat across the South over the last week, added to the human, economic and agricultural toll of a historic drought that climatologists said was only growing more dire. [More]

Social Network Wants to Sequence Your Gut

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By Nicola Jones of Nature magazine The non-profit programme MyMicrobes , launched today, is inviting people to have their gut bacteria sequenced for about €1,500 (2,100). [More]

In A Market The Internet Forgot, Souktel Helps People Find Jobs Via SMS

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Souktel is the Monster.com of Morocco, Somalia, and Palestine--and now it's coming to jobseekers in Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. An upcoming Middle Eastern product launch will connect some of the region's poorest citizens with jobs--via SMS text messages. Souktel , a text message-based job hunting platform, is launching services in Jordan, Egypt, and Tunisia over the next few months.

The social psychology of Burning Man

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Can Shrinking Cities Regrow as Farms? [Video]

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While much of the rest of the world undergoes an incredible surge in urbanization, certain cities in the U.S. [More]

Wildfires Rage across Drought-Stricken Texas

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Less Bang, More Bubbles: Curtains of Air May Protect Fish from Noisy Human Activity

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Noise pollution in the oceans has risen dramatically because of an increase in commercial shipping, oil and gas prospecting, and other activities.

Preventable Deaths: Is U.S. Domestic Security and Public Health Spending Out of Balance?

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The deadly plot unrealized. The heart attack not had. The truth is that the successes of both national security and public health often pass by unnoticed.

Did the U.S. Overreact to the 9/11 Attacks? Undoubtedly

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A decade ago I was wrestling a paragraph in my home office when my wife called out from another room, alarm in her voice. [More]

Fukushima Crisis Is Still Hazy

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Tatsuhiko Kodama began his 27 July testimony to Japan's parliament with what he knew. In a firm, clear voice, he said that the Radioisotope Center of the University of Tokyo, which he heads, had detected elevated radiation levels in the days following the meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station

NASA’s Shrinking Astronaut Corps May Be Too Thin, Report Finds

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NASA's dwindling astronaut corps will not be enough to meet the demands of future space station missions if staffing levels continue as the space agency expects, according to a new report. With the retirement of NASA's space shuttle fleet this year, the American astronaut corps has steadily been decreasing in size as U.S. spaceflyers retired or quit their posts.

Fukushima’s Reactor Cores Still Too Hot to Open

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On March 11, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Sendai in Japan, knocking out power at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

New York Extends Comment Period on Fracking

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By Edward McAllister NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's environmental body on Wednesday extended a public comment period on proposed rules for natural gas drilling in the state, frustrating companies eager to exploit its rich natural gas deposits. [More]