• Large Earthquakes May Broadcast Warnings, But Is Anyone Tuning In To Listen?
  December 13, 2007 — There may be a way to detect the footfalls of large earthquakes a week or more before they strike. A Stanford professor thinks a method to provide such warnings may have been buried in the scientific ... > full story
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• Rising Carbon Dioxide Signals Wetter Storms For Northern Hemisphere, Study Says
  December 13, 2007 — While two new studies by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences predict wetter storms for the Arctic and for the Northern ... > full story
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• New Tibetan Ice Cores Missing A-bomb Blast Markers; Suggest Himalayan Ice Fields Haven't Grown In Last 50 Years
  December 13, 2007 — Ice cores drilled last year from the summit of a Himalayan ice field lack the distinctive radioactive signals that mark virtually every other ice core retrieved worldwide. That missing radioactivity, ... > full story
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• Discovery Of Primary Depoist Of Rubies Leads To Improved Prospecting Strategies
  December 13, 2007 — A primary deposit of rubies has just been discovered in Madagascar. The combination of this new field data with the oxygen isotope composition gave geologists the possibility to determine exactly the ... > full story
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• Purified Wastewater From Hospitals
  December 13, 2007 — Hospital wastewater is contaminated with drugs that can pollute the environment. A newly developed system deals with the problem at source, directly treating and purifying wastewater from the toilets ... > full story
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• Tiny Dust Particles From Asian Deserts Common Over Western United States
  December 13, 2007 — Dust from the Gobi and Taklimakan deserts in China and Mongolia is routinely present in the air over the western United States during spring months, a researcher has found. He found that in years ... > full story
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• Nitrous Oxide From Ocean Microbes Could Be Adding To Global Warming
  December 12, 2007 — A large amount of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide is produced by bacteria in the oxygen poor depths of the ocean. Nitrous oxide is a powerful greenhouse gas some 300 times more so than carbon ... > full story
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• Cattle Fed Byproducts Of Ethanol Production Harbor Dangerous E. Coli Bacteria
  December 12, 2007 — Feeding cattle a byproduct of ethanol production causes E. coli 0157 to spike. This particular type of E. coli is present in healthy cattle but poses a health risk to humans, who can acquire it ... > full story
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• New Study Increases Concerns About Climate Model Reliability
  December 12, 2007 — A new study comparing the composite output of 22 leading global climate models with actual climate data finds that the models do an unsatisfactory job of mimicking climate change in key portions of ... > full story
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• Threatened Birds May Be Rarer Than Geographic Range Maps Suggest
  December 12, 2007 — Geographic range maps that allow conservationists to estimate the distribution of birds may vastly underestimate the actual population size of threatened species and those with specific habitats, ... > full story
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