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To better understand how weather will behave in the future, researchers need to understand how weather has behaved in the past [More]

Viewed on a map, South Georgia Island is a speck in the vast Southern Ocean. But new research by the British Antarctic Survey suggests that the waters surrounding the tiny island are home to a disproportionately large slice of marine life. Nearly 1,500 species live off the coast of the former whaling outpost, including many found nowhere else on Earth

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By Nicola Nosengo of Nature magazine Six Italian seismologists and one government official will be tried for the manslaughter of those who died in the earthquake that struck the city of L'Aquila on 6 April 2009. The seven were on a committee that had been tasked with assessing the risk associated with recent increases in seismic activity in the area. [More]

How many miles will an electric car go on a gallon of gasoline? This is not a trick question.

“If climate change drives temperature up a degree or two,” goes the common dismissal, “how bad could that be?” [More]

LONDON (Reuters) - The world would not have to dig so much metal out of the ground if it strongly embraced recycling, which could be higher, the United Nations Environment Programme said on Thursday. Smarter product designs and support for developing country waste management schemes would encourage recycling, said Thomas Graedel, a professor at Yale University and one of the authors of a report on metals recycling rates at a briefing. [More]

By Anna Driver and Braden Reddall DALLAS/SAN RAMON, California (Reuters) - Large blocks of investors in the two biggest U.S. oil companies on Wednesday demanded more disclosure about the environmental risks of extracting oil and gas through hydraulic fracturing

BOSTON--Astronomy is facing a lean decade. That was the message handed down by senior representatives of the federal agencies that fund much of the field's research in the U.S.

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By Edwin Cartlidge of Nature magazine Now that's precision measurement: the electron is a perfect sphere, give or take barely one part in a million billion. The result comes from the latest in a long line of experiments to probe the shape of the fundamental particle that carries electrical charge. [More]

What should you do when you hear a tornado warning and have only minutes to act? Our friends at AccuWeather.com have produced this short (1:15) video explaining common misconceptions. [More]

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. seafood fraud -- where farmed, imported or endangered fish is sold as wild, local and sustainably-managed -- is hurting efforts to preserve ocean diversity, conservation advocates said on Wednesday. [More]