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Australia: A scientist explains the mystery behind the 2010-2011 sea-level drop
2013-08-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: For the past couple of decades, the oceans have been steadily rising. Each year, sea-level increases by about 3 millimeters, a constant and ominous creep responding to climate warming. Scientists have been measuring this rise from satellites since 1993, using instruments called altimeters. But for an 18-month period that began in the middle of 2010, something surprising happened. Instead of rising, sea levels fell. Lake Eyre, a huge catch basin for eastern Australia's rainfall, typically collects...
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Scientist to eat lab-grown beefburger
2013-08-02 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: On Monday, just after lunchtime, Dr Mark Post will make culinary (and scientific) history by cooking a beefburger and eating it. Which sounds mundane except that this burger cost 250,000 to make and has been painstakingly assembled from meat grown in his laboratory at Maastricht University. Post's burger will be constructed this weekend from tens of thousands of strands of protein grown, in petri dishes, from cattle stem cells. These cultured muscle fibres will be taken out of deep freeze and carefully...
Government bee scientist behind controversial study joins pesticide firm
2013-07-26 19:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A key government scientist whose research was used by ministers to argue against a ban on pesticides thought to harm bees is to join Syngenta, the chemical giant which manufactures one of the insecticides. Dr Helen Thompson will leave the government's Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera) to join Syngenta on 1 September. Thompson led a field trial of the effect of neonicotinoids the world's most widely used insecticides on bees, which was fast-tracked and frequently cited by ministers...
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Ice free Arctic in two years heralds methane catastrophe - scientist
2013-07-24 16:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A new paper in the journal Nature argues that the release of a 50 Gigatonne (Gt) methane pulse from thawing Arctic permafrost could destabilise the climate system and trigger costs as high as the value of the entire world's GDP. The East Siberian Arctic Shelf's (ESAS) reservoir of methane gas hydrates could be released slowly over 50 years or "catastrophically fast" in a matter of decades if not even one decade the researchers said. Not everyone agrees that the paper's scenario of a catastrophic...
University of Illinois Animal Scientist Receives National Honor
2013-07-09 17:31:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: American Society of Animal Science A University of Illinois animal science professor who has pioneered how swine nutrition affects the reproductive system of sows is receiving a national honor today. James Pettigrew will receive the American Society of Animal Science (ASAS) Fellow Award for his research accomplishments at the ASAS National Awards Program in Indianapolis, IN. read more
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