News tagged with residents
'Fool's Gold' from the deep is fertilizer for ocean life
Similar to humans, the bacteria and tiny plants living in the ocean need iron for energy and growth. But their situation is quite different from ours--for one, they can't turn to natural iron sources like ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 09, 2011 |
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Billion-plus people to lack water in 2050: study
More than one billion urban residents will face serious water shortages by 2050 as climate change worsens effects of urbanization, with Indian cities among the worst hit, a study said Monday.
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Why are California birds getting bigger?
Alfred Hitchcock would have appreciated this twist: The birds in central California are getting bigger.
Nov 11, 2011 |
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Ring around the hurricanes: Satellites can predict storm intensity
Coastal residents and oil-rig workers may soon have longer warning when a storm headed in their direction is becoming a hurricane, thanks to a University of Illinois study demonstrating how to use existing ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 20, 2011 |
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Climate-related weather disasters could provide opportunities for the rural poor
A new study in Honduras suggests that climate-related weather disasters may sometimes actually provide opportunities for the rural poor to improve their lives.
Mar 14, 2011 |
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Long-Term carbon storage in Ganges basin may portend global warming worsening
(PhysOrg.com) -- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists have found that carbon is stored in the soils and sediments of the Ganges-Brahmaputra basin for a surprisingly long time, making it likely ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 09, 2011 |
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BP 'plugs' Gulf of Mexico oil spill (Update)
BP said Wednesday that it had succeeded in plugging a ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, signalling an end to the worst spill in the United States' history.
Aug 04, 2010 |
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Gulf Coast residents say BP Oil Spill changed their environmental views, research finds
University of New Hampshire researchers have found that residents of Louisiana and Florida most acutely and directly affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster -- the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history ...
Apr 12, 2012 |
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Mentally ill threat in nursing homes
(AP) -- Ivory Jackson had Alzheimer's, but that wasn't what killed him. At 77, he was smashed in the face with a clock radio as he lay in his nursing home bed.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 22, 2009 |
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NASA sees Tropical Storm Heidi approaching Australia's Pilbara coast
Tropical Storm Heidi is forecast to make landfall today along the Pilbara coast of Western Australia as warnings pepper the coast. NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead early in the day and captured a visible ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Computer modeling shows strategies to rein in epidemics need to be retooled for rural populations
An infectious disease striking a large city may seem like a disastrous scenario -- millions of people sharing apartment buildings, crammed on buses and trains and brushing past one another on crowded sidewalks.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Sony PS3 tops Nintendo Wii in Japan in March: survey
Sony has been given a vital boost in the battle for the multibillion-dollar video game industry, with a survey showing its PlayStation 3 outsold Nintendo's Wii in Japan for the first time in 16 months.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 07, 2009 |
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Fast-food density and neighborhood walkability affect residents' weight and waist size
In a research article published recently by the American Journal of Epidemiology, Oregon Research Institute (ORI) scientist Fuzhong Li, Ph.D., and colleagues show that a high-density of fast food outlets was associated with a ...
Mar 03, 2009 |
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Damage from BP oil spill lingers a year later
The worst maritime oil spill in history began nearly a year ago with a drop in pressure in a poorly drilled well deep in the Gulf of Mexico. It hasn't really ended even though BP's runaway well was eventually ...
Apr 13, 2011 |
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Mapping food deserts
(PhysOrg.com) -- Maps are great for showing where things are. They’re also good for showing where things aren’t.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 03, 2011 |
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