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Scientists See Quake Risk Increasing in Oklahoma
2014-05-07 06:36:46| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A sharp rise in the number of earthquakes in Oklahoma, apparently related to underground disposal of wastewater from oil and gas production, has significantly increased the chances that a damaging quake will occur there, federal and state scientists say. Already this year there have been 145 small earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or higher in the state, compared with 109 for all of 2013, the scientists with the United States Geological Survey and the Oklahoma Geological Survey said in a statement Monday....
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US scientists develop advanced modelling tool to improve food security
2014-05-07 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
Scientists from the USDA Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) have developed an advanced modelling tool to help optimise crop production across larger areas.
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Scientists turn skin cells into sperm cells, but raise provocative new questions
2014-05-05 22:02:16| Extremetech
New research, just published in the journal Cell Reports, suggests that sperm cells can be created in the lab from skin cells. What this really means is that the limitations to further progress in the science of cloning and stem cells are no longer scientific or technological in nature. Instead, the limits have become the problem of a new kind of engineering -- ethical engineering.
Global Warming Hasn't Been Uniform, Scientists Say
2014-05-05 16:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A new study has found that global warming has been uneven over the past 100 years. The study, conducted by Florida State University scientists, has shown that certain regions of the world have warmed while others cooled. "Global warming was not as understood as we thought," said Zhaohua Wu, an assistant professor of meteorology at FSU. For the study, researchers used a new analysis method to examine data on land surface temperature changes since 1900. The team used data from all over the...
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Scientists attack biomass power subsidy
2014-05-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: Some of the most distinguished scientists in the US have written to UK energy secretary Ed Davey, urging him to abandon the governments misguided subsidies for companies burning wood pellets to generate electricity, such as the Drax plant in Yorkshire. The biologist, Dr E.O. Wilson and Professor Daniel Kammen, an energy adviser to the US State Department, are among 60 signatories to a letter seen by the FT. It warns that UK energy policies are stimulating an explosive growth in wood pellet...
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