EurekAlert! - Earth Science News Archive
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- Scientists must offer solutions for conserving tropical forests in a rapidly changing world
- Deep-sea exploration beneath Katrina's wake
- Chemicals entering coastal waters: Freshwater and saltwater interactions in coastal groundwater
- Survey discovers potential threat to Maine's fishing
- Super sulfur soaker material may help control diesel emissions
- The role of titanium in hydrogen storage
- Virginia Tech researchers creating moldable materials for fuel cell bipolar plates
- A new view of human-chimpanzee genome differences
- Ethical and scientific guidelines for study of captive great apes
- Newly completed chimp genome helps scientists learn more about human DNA
- Fuel cells might get hydrogen from water, organic material
- Human Y chromosome preserves itself better than the chimp Y
- New genome comparison finds chimps, humans very similar at DNA level
- Big differences in duplicated DNA distinguish chimp and human genomes
- Human Y chromosome stays intact while chimp Y loses genes
- Flipped, expelled, copied, and shrunk
- Using satellite observations to investigate 'greening' trends across Canada and Alaska
- Rensselaer researcher to showcase new solar underwater robot technology
- Water detection method at Gusev crater described
- Climate change will affect carbon sequestration in oceans, model shows
- When cave crickets go out for dinner, they really go, researchers say
- Can ancient rocks yield clues about catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina?
- Rare eye-movement disorder may shed light on brain and cardiovascular development
- Extreme challenges await electrical engineers' efforts to restore power on Gulf Coast
- Immune system has evolved to prevent autoimmune disease
- Solutions to abrasion and erosion in wind generator vanes
- Japan and US National Science Foundation to collaborate on disaster prevention research
- GEOSPHERE, new GSA electronic journal, now available online
- APS physics tip sheet #53
- Skull study sheds light on dinosaur diversity
- MERIS/AATSR Workshop: focus on Envisat sensors measuring heat and light
- Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2005
- Owner receives keys to Net Zero Energy Habitat for Humanity House
- Canada-wide promotions encourage energy efficiency in the home
- Mining and energy ministers to meet
- Geophysicist to receive $500,000 MacArthur grant for genius in predicting seismic activity
- Ministers work toward viable mining communities
- IODP Cascadia margins gas hydrates expedition underway
- Ministers' conference focuses on energy sustainability
- How to avoid severe climate change discussed at CO2 conference
- Squeezing out dune plants
- Researchers predict infinite genomes
- Insight into our sight: A new view on the evolution of the eye lens
- DFG intensifies cooperation with South Korea
- Duke scientists explain gaps in nutrient availability within North Atlantic
- Spider blood found in 20 million year old fossil
- Photos reveal first tool usage in wild gorillas
- Sun's direct role in global warming may be underestimated, Duke physicists report
- Predicting where flooding will occur in the West
- Fitting in: Newly evolved genes adopt a variety of strategies to remain in the gene pool
- Broadband access supports tsunami relief efforts
- Envisat tracking Africa's rivers and lakes to help manage water resources
- NIST/JILA fellow Jan Hall shares 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Defense center at NJIT draws satisfied customers at annual signing
- Digital heat flow, CSI-style tricorder, and electrifying images of butterfly wings at AVS Science & Technology International Symposium
- Pilot Sandia treatment system that removes arsenic from water to be demonstrated
- Houston company seeks to accelerate superconducting capability with ORNL help
- Latest study: Scientists say no evidence exists that therapod dinosaurs evolved into birds
- Did feathered dinosaurs exist?
- 'An Eye on Katrina: Geoscience Perspectives on a Catastrophic Hurricane' at GSA Next Week
- Rensselaer engineer joins team to study levee failures in New Orleans
- Forecasting the next great San Francisco earthquake
- Yale environment school professor receives research award
- Ancient anthropoid origins discovered in Africa
- Ocean invaders in deep time
- Beneficial effects of no-till farming depend upon future climate change
- Link between tropical warming and greenhouse gases stronger than ever, say scientists
- Scripps researchers rediscover elusive site of exploding volcanic rocks
- Geologist urges seismic shift in process for selecting EarthScope study sites
- Antievolutionism addressed by top geoscientists and educators
- Is America's oil age already waning?
- Geoscientists and educators take on antievolutionists
- Disaster lessons: What you don't know can kill you
- Wright bros. upstaged! Dinos invented biplanes
- Mars' climate in flux: Mid-latitude glaciers
- Climate model predicts dramatic changes over next 100 years
- Eastern California shear zone puzzles seismologists
- Virginia Tech geoscientists resolve inconsistent data on crystal growth, dissolution
- Despite storms, US economy still steaming ahead, no recession looms, UNC expert says
- Immobilizing metals under study at UGA's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
- Climate change adaptation: C-CIARN sponsors Atlantic Canada Workshop
- UCF researchers to develop water purification system for hurricane relief
- Biotech cotton 8: Bugs 0
- New NASA video: 21 named storms in the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season
- UCSD study shows 'junk' DNA has evolutionary importance
- ICSU pursues new initiative that challenges science to do more to prevent natural disasters
- International Council for Science launches International Polar Year 2007-8, an historical endeavour
- Sunny future for nanocrystal solar cells
- Humans are governed by emotions.literally
- Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
- Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
- DNA size a crucial factor in genetic mutations, study finds
- Innovative 'recycling' project could reduce US inventory of spent nuclear fuel
- New book explains how evolution really works, rebuts intelligent design
- Forsyth scientists identify a gene responsible for facial diversity
- University of Georgia team investigates effects of nanoparticles on environment
- Nine minority physiology grad students each get $18,000 Porter Fellowship from APS
- New Science study: Mangroves shielded communities against tsunami
- Nine minority physiology grad students each get $18,000 Porter Fellowship from APS
- Rensselaer researcher awarded DARPA funding to improve terrain maps

