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Uneven Nutritional Payoffs for Marine Predators Revealed

New study finds that the nutritional value of prey within a single species can widely vary, offering key insights for food web dynamics and ecosystem change The hunt is on and a predator finally zeroes in on its prey. The animal consumes the nutritious meal and moves on to forage for its next target. But how much prey does a predator need to consume? Following a period of massive starvation among animals living along the California coast, University of California…

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Glacier Mass Loss: Impact on Downstream Systems Explored

In their paper, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the authors synthesised currently available evidence and documented the profound…

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Antarctic Volcano Eruptions Impact Southern Hemisphere Climate

New findings published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) by Desert Research Institute (DRI)…

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New Findings on the Birthplaces of Metal Smelting

When and where did humans invent metal smelting? Scientists from Heidelberg University, London and Cambridge (Great Britain) have found the answer to this…

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Stellar Corpse Reveals Secrets Behind Cosmic Ray Origins

The origin of cosmic rays, high-energy particles from outer space constantly impacting on Earth, is among the most challenging open questions in astrophysics….

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Record-low 2016 Antarctic sea ice due to 'perfect storm' of tropical, polar conditions

A dramatic drop in Antarctic sea ice almost a year ago, during the Southern Hemisphere spring, brought its maximum area down to its lowest level in 40 years of…

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NASA Innovates Sea Ice Predictions for Arctic Melt Season

NASA researchers are working to improve their forecasts of the size of the Arctic sea ice cover at the end of the summer melt season — but the goal is not…

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Volcanic CO2 and Ancient Global Warming: New Insights

The study, published in Nature, used a combination of new geochemical measurements and novel global climate modelling to show that the Palaeocene-Eocene…

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GPM Satellite Tracks Formation of Tropical Storm Irma

Tropical cyclones that form in that part of the Atlantic Ocean are often the largest and most powerful hurricanes of the season. Hurricanes Ivan (2004), Isabel…

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Machine Learning Enhances Earthquake Prediction in Lab Tests

By listening to the acoustic signal emitted by a laboratory-created earthquake, a computer science approach using machine learning can predict the time…

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New Insights on Arctic Sea Ice Cover Trends and Future

Temperatures in the Arctic are currently climbing two to three times faster than the global average. The result – and, thanks to feedback effects, also the…

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New Insights on Dispersants Used After Deepwater Horizon Spill

New research has uncovered an added dimension to the decision to inject large amounts of chemical dispersants above the crippled seafloor oil well during the…

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NASA calculates Tropical Storm Harvey's flooding rainfall

NASA's Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM or IMERG product is used to make estimates of precipitation from a combination of space-borne passive…

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Oil and Gas Wells: Major Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The pictures went around the world. In April 2010, huge amounts of methane gas escaped from a well below the Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf of Mexico….

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Ultrasound Sensors Enhance Forage Harvester Reliability

Reliability and chopping quality are significant factors for forage harvester economy. For economical operation to be possible, the harvesting machines must…

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Manganese Levels in Underground Water: A Growing Concern

Underground drinking water sources in parts of the U.S. and three Asian countries may not be as safe as previously thought due to high levels of manganese,…

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New Study Reveals Higher Man-Made Methane Emissions

In a new paper published in Nature, the researchers report two important findings regarding methane, a powerful greenhouse gas and large contributor to global…

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