News tagged with global data

Chile's vanishing Patagonian lake

In less than 24 hours Lake Cachet II in Chile's southern Patagonia vanished, leaving behind just some large puddles and chunks of ice in the vast lake bed.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Endangered species, languages linked at high biodiversity regions

Biodiversity hot spots -- the world's biologically richest and most threatened locations on Earth -- and high biodiversity wilderness areas -- biologically rich but less threatened -- are some of the most linguistically diverse ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Start of 2012, March shatter US heat records

(AP) -- It has been so warm in the United States this year, especially in March, that national records were not just broken, they were deep-fried.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 151

Measuring how climate models calculate the effects of clouds on Earth's warming

Using ten years of data gathered at three unique measurement sites, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory found that global climate models are not representing ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Climate change invites alien invaders -- Is Canada ready?

A comprehensive multi-disciplinary synthesis just published in Environmental Reviews reveals the urgent need for further investigation and policy development to address significant environmental, social and economic impact ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tropical clouds hold clues for the global water cycle

(PhysOrg.com) -- To study the wellspring of atmospheric water, you have to start with tropical clouds. Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory showed that global climate models are not accurately ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

NORAD and satellite technology help Santa deliver

(PhysOrg.com) -- According to the U.S. Department of Commerce Census Bureau, the world's population is approximately 7 billion (6,979,978,073+) people. Santa Claus has had to adapt over the years to having ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Tool detects patterns hidden in vast data sets

Researchers from the Broad Institute and Harvard University have developed a tool that can tackle large data sets in a way that no other software program can. Part of a suite of statistical tools called MINE, ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Duke study offers 7 safeguards for hydraulic fracturing

A new report by Duke University researchers offers several health and environmental measures for North Carolina lawmakers to consider as they debate legalizing horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing for natural gas.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists predict faster retreat for Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier

The retreat of Antarctica's fast-flowing Thwaites Glacier is expected to speed up within 20 years, once the glacier detaches from an underwater ridge that is currently holding it back, says a new study in ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Factfile on Galileo, Europe's rival to GPS

Following is a snapshot of Europe's Galileo space-based navigation system, the first satellites of which are scheduled to be launched on Thursday from Kourou, French Guiana.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 16, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 4

S. Korea's SK to launch seven 4G smartphones

South Korea's top mobile carrier SK Telecom said Wednesday it would this year offer seven smartphone models and one tablet device running on ultra high-speed network technology.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Report shows data centers not using as much power as projected

A new report commissioned by the New York Times, shows that electricity consumption used by data centers in the United States and around the world grew at a much slower pace then was predicted by a U.S. Environmental Protec ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

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

80 percent of world climate data are not computerized

In order to gain a better knowledge of climate variations, such as those caused by global warming, and be able to tackle them, we need to understand what happened in the recent past. This is the conclusion ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3