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Saturday, 06 October 2007 19:53

Polluted air, exercise, and heart disease do not mix

Researchers from Edinburg University find that people with heart disease should not exercise outside in polluted air because heart attacks are more likely.               
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Tuesday, 02 October 2007 18:14

Domestic NAO spying delayed by Congressional committee

The National Applications Office (NAO), a department of U.S. Homeland Security, was not allowed to begin domestic observations within the United States and its territories on October 1, 2007, due to concerns with civil liberties and the legality of its actions.         
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Monday, 01 October 2007 19:33

Oxygen atmosphere on Earth found millions of years earlier than thought

The Great Oxidation Event was a global environmental change that was believed to have occurred about 2.4 billion years ago—when oxygen was first believed to show up and rapidly accumulate in the Earth’s atmosphere. Recent research shows that oxygen, instead, appeared millions of years earlier.       
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Sunday, 16 September 2007 19:50

Three ocean corals listed as threatened for first time

According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, two corals are listed as critically endangered and one coral is listed as vulnerable—for the first time in its listing.            
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Monday, 20 August 2007 21:35

Houston, Texas, and NASA Mission Control, prepare for Hurricane Dean

Worried that Hurricane Dean might turn toward the Mission Control Center at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, NASA is taking needed action to assure that the shuttle is back on Earth before the storm hits and that its mission control personnel are safe.
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Wednesday, 01 August 2007 20:20

NASA rover managers increasingly anxious with state of Opportunity

Mars Exploration Rover (MER) managers are growing very concerned with the low temperature of the electronics onboard Opportunity as Martian dust storms continue to assault the rover.
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Friday, 13 July 2007 20:06

iPods and lighting are a shockingly powerful combo

If you’re outside and you’re in a thunderstorm (or one is brewing), turn off your iPod and remove the headphones from your ears – or you risk being zapped in the head!

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Wednesday, 11 July 2007 21:43

Sun not global warming factor, according to UK & Swiss scientists

Data from the past forty years clearly shows that the Sun peaked in intensity in the mid-1980s and has been declining in solar activity ever since. With the Sun in a cycle that produces less heat, it is unlikely to be a factor in the Earth becoming warmer.
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Friday, 06 July 2007 04:36

Ancient DNA finds Greenland's past a land of trees and butterflies

With over 80% of Greenland a massive ice cap, it seems unlikely but a Danish scientist has discovered that between 450,000 and 800,000 years ago Greenland was the home to a green forest full of plants, trees, and insects.
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Sunday, 01 July 2007 20:23

NASA's AIM takes exciting pixs of noctilucent clouds on edge of space

The mission of the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) spacecraft  is to study very high mysterious clouds at the edge of space that are called noctilucent clouds (NLCs). AIM has already produced dramatic first-time photographs of these NLCs.
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Friday, 22 June 2007 18:56

Marine life on floating icebergs may help reduce CO2 in atmosphere

U.S. oceanographers have discovered marine ecosystems on drifting icebergs that absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air, a gas that contributes to global warming.
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Friday, 22 June 2007 07:37

Will EPA side with brown or green on ozone standard?

The EPA is considering stricter ozone standards. Dropping levels would save thousands of lives say "green" environmentalists. However, It will cost "brown" businesses more to comply with the stricter standards. Will the EPA go with businesses and industries or heed the advice of scientists and environmentalists?
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Monday, 18 June 2007 20:01

Familiar backyard birds on decline'”down 50% over last 40 years

Based on a new National Audubon Society study, twenty of the most common North American birds, such as the field sparrow, snow bunting, meadowlark, Northern bobwhite, and whippoorwill, are drastically on the decline due to human encroachment, climate change, and invasive species.         
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Thursday, 14 June 2007 07:00

Google and Intel lead green computing brigade

PCs and servers are incredibly wasteful, energy hungry devices. So the world's biggest purveyors of and facilitators of these devices, led by Google and Intel, have launched an initiative to make computers more green and help save the planet by 2010.

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Friday, 08 June 2007 22:47

Italian COSMO-SkyMed satellite launched to study world's weather

The COSMO-SkyMed 1 satellite, launched Thursday, June 8, 2007, is the first of four Earth observation satellites that will take images of the Earth for military and civilian purposes at an altitude of 619 kilometers.
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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 21:05

U.S. water and environment laws spring a leak

The Federal U.S. ‘Clean Water Act’ looks like it will remove protection for streams and small bodies of water, protecting only lakes and rivers large enough for boats, in a reversal for environmental protection.

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Wednesday, 06 June 2007 02:46

Controversial weather satellites: Scientists say if reduced, we'll ignore global warming?

Many articles are discussing the issue of cutting back on U.S. efforts to launch a next-generation series of weather satellites to save money in a project already full of cost overruns and technical glitches. In controversy is the program called the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System.
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Monday, 04 June 2007 02:41

Wind engineering researchers at Florida build gigantic artificial wind simulator

Called the world’s largest fully portable artificial hurricane wind and rain machine, University of Florida engineers led by Forrest Masters built a machine that produces wind speeds of about 100 miles (160 kilometers) per hour.                   
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Thursday, 24 May 2007 22:55

Origins-of-life pioneer Stanley Miller, creator of 'primodial soup', dead at 77

University of California-San Diego chemist and biologist Stanley Lloyd Miller died May 20, 2007 of heart failure in a hospital in National City, California. Miller is famous for his pioneering experiment that first demonstrated organic molecules could be artificially generated in a laboratory.      
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Monday, 21 May 2007 05:42

Can cities counter global warming's higher temps? Create more green spaces!

According to a British study headed by Roland Ennos of Manchester University, creating more green spaces, such as with parks and trees, could cool off cities.

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