02/04/2007

Antarctic ice yields student research discovery

While researching the “bottom of the world,” Jeffrey Geddes made a discovery about sea ice formation that has the potential to provide scientists with another piece of the climate-change puzzle.

Second ancient whale found in Italy

The skeleton of a 33-foot-long prehistoric whale has been discovered in what was once an ancient seabed in Italy's Tuscany region.

A changing climate for protected areas

On April 6, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release a report entitled Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability that focuses on how climate change is affecting the planet.

'Self-healing' house in Greece will dare to defy nature

A high-tech villa designed to resist earthquakes by ‘self-healing’ cracks in its own walls and monitoring vibrations through an intelligent sensor network will be built on a Greek mountainside.

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