ScienceDaily (Oct. 26, 2010) — As the ice-capped Arctic Ocean warms, ship traffic will increase at the top of the world. And if the sea ice continues to decline, a new route connecting international trading partners may emerge — but not without significant repercussions to climate, according to a U.S. and Canadian research team that […]
Pre-fishery biomass (in 1000s of tonnes) of Pacific herring in three subregions of the North Coast and Hecate Strait ecozone. The top left panel is for the Central Coast, the top right panel for Haida Gwaii, and the lower panel for the Prince Rupert District. The horizontal line represents the minimum spawning stock biomass. 2010 […]
By Lee-Maree GalloOctober 25, 2010 – 11:36AM Increased snowfall in the Antarctic has been linked to drought in south-western Australia. Researchers, including Australian Antarctic Division principal research scientist Tas van Ommen, have been analysing ice cores in the Antarctic and revealed snowfall variability may be linked to climate in the Southern Ocean and the South-West. […]
MSH/ZHD/HRFSun Oct 24, 2010 6:29AM More than 7 millions are still without shelter in Pakistan as water-borne diseases and nutrition are still a grave concern for millions of the country’s flood victims after the July-August flooding, a Press TV correspondent said in a report on Sunday. This is while the United Nations has launched several […]
By Haider Ali Hussein MullickBest Defense chief Pakistan correspondent Monday, October 25, 2010 – 10:53 AM I just got back from my third trip to Pakistan this year, where I examined the scope and scale of its counterinsurgency strategy and al Qaeda’s response. The bottom line is that al Qaeda’s big plans for world dominance […]
Caption by William L. Stefanov, NASA-JSCOctober 25, 2010 The Merowe Dam is located near the 4th cataract of the Nile River, in the Nubian Desert of the Republic of the Sudan (also known as Sudan). The dam was built to generate hydroelectric power—electricity intended to further industrial and agricultural development of the country. This astronaut […]
By Natalia RealFriday, October 22, 2010, 14:10 (GMT + 9) The Australian Antarctic Division has conducted study on ocean acidification and found that increased levels of carbon dioxide kill krill embryos. Krill is one of the main types of plankton, itself the basic food source of nearly all animals in the ocean. Krill were exposed […]
By Bob Marshall, The Times-Picayune Saturday, October 23, 2010, 7:22 PM A Coast Guard official said Saturday the orange substance floating in miles-wide areas of West Bay on the Mississippi River delta appears to be algae, not oil as reported Saturday morning by The Times-Picayune. Lt. Cmdr. Chris O’Neil said a Coast Guard pollution investigator […]
The Nation of PakistanPublished: October 24, 2010 NEW YORK – The United States is pressuring Pakistan to allow more CIA officers into the country to expand US secret operations aimed at eliminating militant havens near the Afghan border, a prominent American newspaper reported Saturday. “The US asked Pakistan in recent weeks to allow additional Central […]
Study near Gulf of Mexico spill site finds surprisingly high methane uptake by microbes Contact: Steve Bradt, steve_bradt@harvard.edu, Harvard University 20 October 2010 CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 20, 2010 — Microbes living at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico may consume far more of the gaseous waste from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill than previously […]
