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Home / Blogs / Science & the Public / Science & the Public : EPA rejects climate-change deniers’ petitionsA number of people challenge that climate change is real, that it's due to greenhouse gases released by human activities and that it's a threat to human health and the environment. On July 29, the Environmental Protection Agency formally rejected those claims as it turned down 10 petitions asking the Obama administration to reconsider EPA’s “endangerment finding.”Published: Thursday, July 29th, 2010Found in: Climate Change, Environment and Science & Society
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Whirlwinds leave dark paths behind by sucking sand grains clean.Published: Wednesday, July 28th, 2010Found in: Earth, Earth Science and Planetary Science -
A new map shows forest height around the globe and will improve estimates of how much carbon is stored in trees.Published: Monday, July 26th, 2010Found in: Earth -
A fossil jaw may, or may not, come from the oldest known example of man’s best friend.Published: Thursday, July 22nd, 2010Found in: Life and Paleontology -
Researchers discover a fresh meteorite impact crater using Google Earth. (p. 13)Published: August 14th, 2010; Vol.178 #4Found in: Atom & Cosmos, Earth, Earth Science and Planetary Science -
Home / News / August 14th, 2010; Vol.178 #4 / Apes and Old World monkeys may have split later than thoughtA 29- to 28-million-year-old primate fossil found in Saudi Arabia assists scientists in timing a major evolutionary transition. (p. 11)Published: August 14th, 2010; Vol.178 #4Found in: Life and Paleontology -
Left intact, dense swaths of trees can reduce tsunami damage, a new study suggests.Published: Friday, July 9th, 2010Found in: Earth, Earth Science, Ecology and Environment -
Seafloor sediments show that agriculture has greatly boosted airborne dust in the last two centuries. (p. 14)Published: July 31st, 2010; Vol.178 #3Found in: Earth, Earth Science, Environment and Science & Society -
Home / Blogs / On the Scene / On the Scene : New carbon data should produce better climate forecastsBLOG: More refined measurements for carbon dioxide input by plants and carbon dioxide released during respiration will help models, Science News editor in chief Tom Siegfried reports from the Euroscience Open Forum 2010 in Turin, Italy.Published: Monday, July 5th, 2010Found in: Climate Change
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Warming climate could lead to dead zones, acidification and shifts at the base of the ocean’s food chain. (p. 14)Published: July 31st, 2010; Vol.178 #3Found in: Biology, Climate Change, Ecology and Environment
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Researchers find evidence that Earth’s earliest multicellular life got going 2.1 billion years ago. (p. 17)Published: July 31st, 2010; Vol.178 #3Found in: Earth Science -
A recently discovered fossil demonstrates that giant whales weren’t always as gentle as they are today. (p. 17)Published: July 31st, 2010; Vol.178 #3Found in: Earth, Life, Paleobiology and Paleontology -
Instruments on a massive berg help pinpoint a previously unreported undersea ridge. (p. 15)Published: July 17th, 2010; Vol.178 #2Found in: Earth, Earth Science and Planetary Science -
With drought and rising temperatures in Wyoming, migratory animals suffer while stay-at-home members of the same herd thrive (p. 12)Published: July 17th, 2010; Vol.178 #2Found in: Climate Change, Environment, Life and Zoology -
A flood carved a surprisingly large gorge that may help understand features on Earth and Mars. (p. 15)Published: July 17th, 2010; Vol.178 #2Found in: Earth
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