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Maya plumbing, first pressurized water feature found in New World

A water feature found in the Maya city of Palenque, Mexico, is the earliest known example of engineered water pressure in the new world, according to a collaboration between two Penn State researchers, an ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 04, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

231-mph NH wind gust is no longer world's fastest

(AP) -- First the Old Man, now the Big Wind. New Hampshire's Mount Washington has lost its distinction as the site of the fastest wind gust ever recorded on Earth, officials at the Mount Washington Observatory ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 26, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (18) | comments 1

Controversial new climate change results

(PhysOrg.com) -- New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of CO2 has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of CO2 having risen from about 2 billion ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (49) | comments 131

Study shows strong evidence that cloud changes may exacerbate global warming

The role of clouds in climate change has been a major question for decades. As the earth warms under increasing greenhouse gases, it is not known whether clouds will dissipate, letting in more of the sun's ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (56) | comments 15

2008 Was Earth's Coolest Year Since 2000

(PhysOrg.com) -- Climatologists at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City have found that 2008 was the coolest year since 2000. The GISS analysis also showed that 2008 is the ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (23) | comments 14

Study links swings in North Atlantic oscillation variability to climate warming

Using a 218-year-long temperature record from a Bermuda brain coral, researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have created the first marine-based reconstruction showing the long-term behavior of one ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (18) | comments 32

Black carbon, tropospheric ozone most likely driving Earth's tropical belt expansion

Black carbon aerosols and tropospheric ozone, both manmade pollutants emitted predominantly in the Northern Hemisphere's low- to mid-latitudes, are most likely pushing the boundary of the tropics further polew ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

New research brings satellite measurements and global climate models closer

One popular climate record that shows a slower atmospheric warming trend than other studies contains a data calibration problem, and when the problem is corrected the results fall in line with other records ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (13) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Wind farms lift the temperature in their region

Wind turbines can modify the local climate by warming the atmosphere, according to a study that revealed an increase in temperature of 0.72 degrees over a region of Texas where four large wind farms have been ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (12) | comments 53 | with audio podcast

State of Himalayan glaciers less alarming than feared

Ever since the false prognoses of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Himalayan glaciers have been a focus of public and scientific debate. The gaps in our knowledge of glaciers in the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 68 | with audio podcast

Evidence of past Southern hemisphere rainfall cycles related to Antarctic temperatures

Geoscientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Minnesota this week published the first evidence that warm-cold climate oscillations well known in the Northern Hemisphere over ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Erratic, extreme day-to-day weather puts climate change in new light

The first climate study to focus on variations in daily weather conditions has found that day-to-day weather has grown increasingly erratic and extreme, with significant fluctuations in sunshine and rainfall ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Unravelling the causes of the Ice Age megafauna extinctions

Was it humans or climate change that caused the extinctions of the iconic Ice Age mammals (megafauna) such as the woolly rhinoceros and woolly mammoth?

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

World's highest webcam brings Everest to Internet

The world's highest webcam has been installed in the Nepalese Himalayas, beaming live images of Mount Everest back to scientists studying the effects of climate change on the planet's tallest peak.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Skeptic's small cloud study renews climate rancor

(AP) -- A study on how much heat in Earth's atmosphere is caused by cloud cover has heated up the climate change blogosphere even as it is dismissed by many scientists.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 30, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (14) | comments 92