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Marine plankton brighten clouds over Southern Ocean
2015-07-24 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE: Satellites use chlorophyll's green color to detect biological activity in the oceans. The lighter-green swirls are a massive December 2010 plankton bloom following ocean currents off Patagonia, at the southern. Credit: Credits: …
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UTSA giving young engineers a view from the clouds
2015-07-23 19:50:11| IT Services - Topix.net
Next week, more than 200 junior high-age students will get to see a possible future for their careers when the University of Texas at San Antonio and industry partner Rackspace Hosting host tours and presentations of the new Open Cloud Institute. The students are taking part in the Texas Prefreshman Engineering Program , a summer-long program designed to help prepare them for advanced courses in science, technology, engineering and math.
Marine plankton brighten clouds over Southern Ocean
2015-07-18 07:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Nobody knows what our skies looked like before fossil fuel burning began; today, about half the cloud droplets in Northern Hemisphere skies formed around particles of pollution. Cloudy skies help regulate our planet's climate, and yet the answers to many fundamental questions about cloud formation remain hazy. New research led by the University of Washington and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory suggest tiny ocean life in vast stretches of the Southern Ocean play a significant role in generating...
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Marine plankton brighten clouds over Southern Ocean
2015-07-17 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE:Â Tiny ocean life contribute to clouds directly, by being lofted up with sea spray, and indirectly, by producing sulfurous gas. Credit: Daniel McCoy / University of Washington Nobody knows what our skies looked like…
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Secrecy over fracking chemicals clouds environmental risks, advocates say
2015-07-05 13:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The fracking industry must be compelled to provide far more detailed information to regulators if the public is to be accurately informed of any risks to the environment, advocacy groups say. A report by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last month found that hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas can lead, and has led, to the contamination of drinking water. It was the first time the federal government had admitted such a link. The study, based on data sources available to the agency,...
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