CLIMATE - Arctic sea-ice loss has widespread effects on wildlife
With sea ice at its lowest point in 1,500 years, how might ecological communities in the Arctic be affected by its continued and even accelerated melting over the next decades? In a review article in the journal Science, to be published on 2 August 2013, Eric Post, a Penn State University professor ... ...
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CLIMATE - As climate, disease links become clearer, study highlights need to forecast future shifts
Climate change is affecting the spread of infectious diseases worldwide, according to an international team of leading disease ecologists, with serious impacts to human health and biodiversity conservation. Writing in the journal Science, they propose that modeling the way disease systems respond to ... ...
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CLIMATE - Climate change occurring 10 times faster than at any time in past 65 million years
The planet is undergoing one of the largest changes in climate since the dinosaurs went extinct. But what might be even more troubling for humans, plants and animals is the speed of the change. Stanford climate scientists warn that the likely rate of change over the next century will be at least 10
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CLIMATE - Climate change occurring ten times faster than at any time in past 65 million years
Not only is the planet undergoing one of the largest climate changes in the past 65 million years, scientists report that it's occurring at a rate 10 times faster than any change in that period. Without intervention, this extreme pace could lead to a 5-6 degree Celsius spike in annual temperatures by the end of the century. ...
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CLIMATE - Climate strongly affects human conflict and violence worldwide, says study
Shifts in climate are strongly linked to human violence around the world, with even relatively minor departures from normal temperature or rainfall substantially increasing the risk of conflict in ancient times or today, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, ...
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CLIMATE - Global-warming Armageddon? It may be more likely than you thought
A runaway greenhouse Armageddon in which the oceans boil dry could theoretically happen on Earth, researchers claim. ...
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CLIMATE - Ice core clue to climate catastrophe
New data from Greenland ice cores suggest North America may have suffered a large cosmic impact about 12,900 years ago. ...
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CLIMATE - Team develops more accurate model of climate change's effect on soil
Scientists from UC Irvine and the National Center for Atmospheric Research have developed a new computer model to measure global warming's effect on soil worldwide that accounts for how bacteria and fungi in soil control carbon. ...
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CLIMATE - Temperature alters population dynamics of common plant pests
Temperature-driven changes alter outbreak patterns of tea tortrix—an insect pest—and may shed light on how temperature influences whether insects emerge as cohesive cohorts or continuously, according to an international team of researchers. These findings have implications for both pest control ... ...
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CLIMATE -Polar Researchers Explain North Pole ‘Lake’
Santa’s workshop not flooded – but lots of melting in the Arctic
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/polar-researchers-explain-north-pole-lake/?_r=0
ECONOMICS - Abandoned Canadian Ghost Town to be Revived by Entrepreneur
Kitsault is a modern ghost town, one that was abandoned some 30 years ago by over 1,200 mine workers and their families. But the British Columbia town still stands just as its inhabitants left it — leaving an Indo-Canadian businessman with an intriguing idea: Why not bring it back to life? ...
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ECONOMICS - Olfactive Branding: Retail's Fragrant Frontier
Pye store in Hong Kong, scented by 12.29 | Source: Pye LONDON, United Kingdom (The Business of Fashion) — Bread just out of the oven; freshly cut grass; roasting coffee beans: these are smells often used to entice house buyers. In the last few years, fashion retailers have become increasingly aware of scent’s [...] ...
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ECONOMICS - Real Estate Down Slightly During The Second Quarter
Disclaimer: Both myself personally and the clients we manage invest in IVV, VNQ, and VNQI. Real Estate Stocks are an important part of the category of Resource Stocks, sometimes called “Hard Asset” Stocks. They were down slightly in the second quarter of 2013. Foreign real estate was down more for the [...] ...
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ECONOMICS - Staying Focused On Our Customers Helped Us Innovate
This is my first post in a series reflecting on my experience as a social entrepreneur. One of the biggest lessons we have learnt so far is that is it’s not about us and what we do but it is about our customers and how we can help them, to help themselves. ...
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ECONOMICS - Why shopaholics overspend? Poor credit management, buying to boost mood, study says
Why do shopping addicts keep spending even in the face of harmful financial, emotional and social consequences? A new study suggests poor credit management and a belief that new purchases will create a happier life fuel compulsive buying. ...Enclosure: image/jpeg http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/tmb/2012/atom.jp
ENERGY - 'Soft' approach leads to revolutionary energy storage
Monash University researchers have brought next generation energy storage closer with an engineering first - a graphene-based device that is compact, yet lasts as long as a conventional battery. ...
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ENERGY - Trouble With Clean Energy Disinformation In Mainstream Media | EarthTechling
Some mainstream media around the world have a tendency to publish misinformed or, worse, systematically and falsely negative stories about renewable energy. ...
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FASHION - Vanity Fair unveils 2013 best-dressed list
Kerry Washington, Lebron James and Duchess Kate all made the magazine's annual list ...
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PEOPLE - How Reza Aslan Became A Media Messiah
At the same time that Reza Aslan offers viewers a splendid drinking game every time he brings up his scholarly credentials, his slippery and sloppy articulation of his credentials brings his very credibility into question. ...
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PEOPLE - Royal baby name revealed: George Alexander Louis
Prince William and Kate's son, the third in line to the throne, will be known as His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge ...
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PEOPLE - The Engineer Of The Future
Editor's Note: At the Clinton Global Initiative America meeting in June, the Paul and Stacy Jacobs Foundation announced a commitment of $20M to launch a design innovation institute at UC Berkeley College of Engineering. In an interview with Rahim Kanani of the Skoll World Forum, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs discusses his [...] ...
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PEOPLE - The Young African Millionaire Lighting Up Tanzania
Patrick Ngowi, a 28 year-old African, has made millions providing solar products to Tanzanians. He's got even bigger plans for the future. ...
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SCIENCE - Is There a Timeless Zone in the Universe?: Scientific American
Theoretical cosmologist Sean Carroll answers questions submitted to our YouTube Space Lab Channel ...
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SCIENCE - Team demonstrates gels that can be moved, controlled by light
(Phys.org) —Some animals—like the octopus and cuttlefish—transform their shape based on environment, fending off attackers or threats in the wild. For decades, researchers have worked toward mimicking similar biological responses in non-living organisms, as it would have significant implications ... ...Enclosure: image/jpeg http://cdn.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/tmb/2012/atom.jp
SCIENCE - The Quantum Zeno Effect actually does stop the world
Zeno of Elea was a Greek philosopher who suggested that if you could slice time into small enough increments, the world would freeze in place. It turns out that he was right -- at least, from a quantum mechanics perspective. ...
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SCIENCE - The world according to Itskov: Futurists convene at GF2045 (Part 1)
As many Phys.org readers undoubtedly know, Einstein famously said that imagination is more important than knowledge – but there's more to it. ...
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SCIENCE - Third way: 'partnership scientists' can tackle environmental challenges
As part of our series on science and the green movement, WWF's Dave Tickner considers the environmental challenges facing Ruaha in Tanzania ...
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SCIENCE - What does mercury being liquid at room temperature have to do with Einstein’s theory of relativity? | The Curious Wavefunction, Scientific American Blog Network
One of the great moments in twentieth century science came when Paul Dirac married quantum mechanics with Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity to produce relativistic quantum ... ...
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SPACE - An Incredible Galactic Snapshot From Your New Favorite Telescope
That beautiful image you see up there is our twin galaxy Andromeda. A neighbor that's right next door, a mere 2.5 million light-years-away. And this new portrait was taken by an all-new telescope camera that's got a whole life of stellar shots ahead of it. ...
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SUSTAINABILITY - 10 Paranoid Science Fiction Stories That Could Help You Survive
It's not just paranoia. They really are watching you. The world we're living in is getting weirder and more dangerous all the time. So it's a good thing science fiction has been stockpiling dark mind-fraks for decades, full of smart survival strategies. Here are 10 paranoid science fiction tales that could keep you alive. ...
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URBAN - Is Suburbia The Key To A Greentech Revolution? | EarthTechling
A city’s suburbs could hold the solution to dwindling fuel supplies by producing enough energy to power residents’ cars and even top up power resources. ...
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URBAN - New Antarctic Research Station Built From 134 Shipping Containers | EarthTechling
Shipping containers provide a sturdy, warm place for Indian researchers to hunker down for the night.
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URBAN - The Ten Top Posts of the month in design
What a month! So many beautiful green buildings that raise so many questions. ...
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WATER - 7 Easy Things You Can Do To Save Water This Summer | EarthTechling
It's hard to conserve water when it flows so easily from the faucet and hose. Here are some truly easy tips that can keep us from wasting too much H20. ...
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WORK - The Ticktock of the Death Clock
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/the-tick-tock-of-the-death-clock/
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