News tagged with north america
Global mobile payments to top $171 bn: survey
Worldwide mobile payments are expected to top $171.5 billion in 2012, a 61.9 percent increase from 2011, a research report said Tuesday.
May 29, 2012 |
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Solar eclipse this weekend
Something strange is about to happen to the shadows beneath your feet.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 16, 2012 |
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Canada's Globe and Mail to erect online paywall
Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper has announced plans for an online paywall to generate extra revenue and has also asked staff to take unpaid leave amid an ongoing slide in advertising income.
May 11, 2012 |
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Tracking nutrient pollutant in Chesapeake
Too much of a good thing can kill you, the saying goes.
May 10, 2012 |
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New study shows early North Americans lived with extinct giant beasts
(Phys.org) -- A new University of Florida study that determined the age of skeletal remains provides evidence humans reached the Western Hemisphere during the last ice age and lived alongside giant extinct mammals.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 03, 2012 |
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Italian merchants funded England's discovery of North America
Evidence that a Florentine merchant house financed the earliest English voyages to North America, has been published on-line in the academic journal Historical Research.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 30, 2012 |
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Diversity aided mammals' survival over deep time
When it comes to adapting to climate change, diversity is the mammal's best defense.
Apr 23, 2012 |
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42,000-year-old baby mammoth on show in Hong Kong
The world's best-preserved mammoth, buried about 42,000 years ago, will go on display in Hong Kong this week, the organiser of its first exhibition in Asia said Wednesday.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 11, 2012 |
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Bering Strait may be global temperature stabilizer
(Phys.org) -- A diverse group of climate researchers has found after running computer simulations that the strait that separates North America and Russia might be serving as a global temperature stabilizer. ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 10, 2012 |
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ASU scientists help uncover complex causes, consequences of changes in the environment
Long-term ecological findings reported today in a special section of the journal BioScience show as temperatures increase in snowy ecosystems, more water is lost to the atmosphere than first predicted. Also, ...
Apr 09, 2012 |
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Big sagebrush may need to count on its soil seed bank for survival
Big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) is a key foundational species in an ecosystem that is threatened by invasion of cheatgrass and the subsequent increase in fire frequency. Critical to the conservation, reesta ...
Mar 27, 2012 |
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Wasp found in upstate New York shows up in Southern California
In August 2010, an entomologist at the University of California, Riverside discovered a tiny fairyfly wasp in upstate New York that had never been seen in the United States until then. Nearly exactly a year ...
Jan 24, 2012 |
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New research suggests North American continent is a slow eroder
(PhysOrg.com) -- When looking at the great expanse of the whole of North America, it’s difficult to not see it all as a relatively permanent plot of land between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. It doesn’t ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 06, 2012 |
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What the mining debate is missing
As mining is resurging in North America, debates across the continent over mines are simplified: “Do we prioritize jobs or the environment? Companies or communities?” These are worthy ...
Jan 05, 2012 |
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Over 65 million years North American mammal evolution has tracked with climate change
Climate changes profoundly influenced the rise and fall of six distinct, successive waves of mammal species diversity in North America over the last 65 million years, shows a novel statistical analysis led ...
Dec 26, 2011 |
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