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ScienceDaily / Earth and Climate news


Online magazines and Web portals devoted to science, technology, and medicine. Articles are selected from news releases submitted by leading universities and other research organizations around the world.

Cave Study Links Climate Change To California Droughts
15 11 2009 California experienced centuries-long droughts in the past 20,000 years that coincided with the thawing of ice caps in the Arctic, according to analysis of stalagmites from a cave in the Sierra Nevada.

Lab Machine To Study Glacial Sliding Related To Rising Sea Levels Created
15 11 2009 Researchers have created a glacier in a freezer that could help scientists understand how glaciers slide across their beds. That could help researchers predict how climate change accelerates glacier sliding and contributes to rising sea levels.

Ancient penguin DNA raises doubts about accuracy of genetic dating techniques
15 11 2009 Penguins that died 44,000 years ago in Antarctica have provided extraordinary frozen DNA samples that challenge the accuracy of traditional genetic aging measurements, and suggest those approaches have been routinely underestimating the age of many specimens by 200 to 600 percent.

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Nature / Reports / Climate change


Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology

The new world order
03 03 2010 The United States and European Union will face off against China and Russia as climate change starts to alter the geopolitical gameboard.

Settling the science on Himalayan glaciers
03 03 2010 The remote glaciers of the Himalayan mountains have been the subject of much controversy, yet little research. Mason Inman looks at the clues scientists have garnered on the fate of these glaciers from ground- and space-based studies.

Souring seas
03 03 2010

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EurekAlert / Atmospheric science / News


EurekAlert! is an online, global news service operated by AAAS, the science society. EurekAlert! provides a central place through which universities, medical centers, journals, government agencies, corporations and other organizations engaged in research can bring their news to the media.

Purdue, NASA research provides blueprint for molecular basis of global warming
17 11 2009 (Purdue University) A new study indicates that major chemicals most often cited as leading causes of climate change, such as carbon dioxide and methane, are outclassed in their warming potential by compounds receiving less attention.

Oak Ridge 'Jaguar' supercomputer is World's fastest
17 11 2009 (DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory) An upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the Department of Energy has made the "Jaguar" supercomputer the world's fastest. Located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jaguar is the scientific research community's most powerful computational tool for exploring solutions to some of today's most difficult problems.

Soil experts to discuss terroir, the link between Earth, wine on Nov. 19 in DC
17 11 2009 (American Society of Agronomy) A Congressional educational briefing on Nov. 19 in Washington DC will shed light on how the balance of site selection and vineyard management blend together to provide distinctive grapes which can allow for unique wine characteristics. Soil scientists and vineyards from across the U.S. will present, “The Essence of Earth and Wine: Terroir” on Thursday, November 19, from 5:30-7:00 pm in 2168 Rayburn House Office Building (Gold Room).

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R4D / Climate change


Up-to-date information on DFID’s current research portfolio

Rethinking the conceptual terrain of AIDS scholarship: lessons from comparing 27 years of AIDS and climate change research
09 03 2010 Miscellaneous M. Chazen, M. Brklacich and A. Whiteside 2009 Globalization and Health (20090 5:12 [doi:10.1186/1744-8603-5-12] Background: While there has recently been significant medical advance in understanding and treating HIV, limitations in understanding the complex social dimensions of HIV/AIDS epidemics continue to restrict a host of prevention and development efforts from community through to international levels. These gaps are rooted as much in limited conceptual development as they are in a lack of empirical research.

Methods: In this conceptual article, the authors compare and contrast the evolution of climate change and AIDS research. They demonstrate how scholarship and response in these two seemingly disparate areas share certain important similarities, such as the "globalization" of discourses and associated masking of uneven vulnerabilities, the tendency toward techno-fixes, and the polarization of debates within these fields. They also examine key divergences, noting in particular that climate change research has tended to be more forward-looking and longer-term in focus than AIDS scholarship.

Conclusion: Suggesting that AIDS scholars can learn from these key parallels and divergences, the paper offers four directions for advancing AIDS research: (1) focusing more on the differentiation of risk and responsibility within and among AIDS epidemics; (2) taking (back) on board social justice approaches; (3) moving beyond polarized debates; and (4) shifting focus from reactive to forward-looking and proactive approaches.

Science and Innovation for Development - a landmark in development thinking and practice
22 02 2010 This new book by two of the UK's leading international development thinkers will be launched tomorrow (19 January, 2010) at the Wellcome Collection in London

Understanding adaptation decisions in Morocco
22 02 2010 The Climate Change Adaptation in Africa programme is providing policy makers with evidence of how communities are threatened with climate change in rural communities

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