Earth

  1. Earth

    TNT buster

    A bacterium from Yellowstone could help break down TNT.

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  2. Earth

    Slip, Slide, Shake

    Analyses of GPS and seismic data about one of Antarctica’s largest and most dynamic glaciers provide new insights into the ice stream’s lurching march to the sea.

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  3. Agriculture

    Federal Research Censorship

    The media-affairs office in federal agencies can be fairly obstructionist, and when they do, the public comes out the loser.

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  4. Earth

    Lucky Shot

    Satellite catches pyroclastic flow in motion.

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  5. Agriculture

    Green Living, Chinese-Style

    Chinese is developing eco-cities to take their citizens straight from the agricultural to the ecological age.

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  6. Earth

    Natural heat

    Heat from the decay of radioactive elements deep within the planet could meet Earth’s energy needs almost three times over — if we could harness all of it.

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  7. Earth

    Virtual seismometer

    A new supercomputer simulation of the large quake that struck central China earlier this month could help researchers estimate the size of the ground motions experienced in areas that didn’t have seismic instruments.

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  8. Earth

    Death downwind

    Pollutants generated by human activity in Europe significantly boost ozone concentrations downwind, harming people’s health and causing thousands of premature deaths in North Africa, the Near East and the Middle East.

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  9. Climate

    Already feeling the heat

    Long-delayed U.S. government summary of climate change science sees effects on energy, transportation, farming, and water.

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  10. Agriculture

    Vertical Agriculture

    Instead of farming in the country, one Columbia University scientist would do it in the city, spanning floor upon floor of buildings--from basements to the tops of high rise structures.

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    Political Science

    New York's mayor argues that science should not only inform action, but also prod it.

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  12. Earth

    Life down deep

    Deep-sea sediments provide a habitat for diverse and abundant populations of microorganisms and may be home to as much as 70 percent of the bacteria on the planet, new studies suggest.

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