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Earth’s Bountiful Oceans?

November 19, 2007 – 3:07 am

Francis Scudellari author of Caught in The Stream and co-author of Climate of Our Future gave me an excellent link to an article on overfishing.
Wired Magazine Issue 15.06
I read the article and realized just how devastating a crisis this is.
We are now living in an Omega3 crazed world. Many marine ecologists think that [...]

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Scientists Enhance Mother Nature’s Carbon Handling Mechanism

November 13, 2007 – 4:02 am

ScienceDaily (Nov. 8, 2007) — Taking a page from Nature herself, a team of researchers developed a method to enhance removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and place it in the Earth’s oceans for storage.
Unlike other proposed ocean sequestration processes, the new technology does not make the oceans more acid and may be beneficial [...]

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Wanted: Imaginative Indian climate scientists

August 18, 2007 – 2:03 am

Scidev.net
16 August 2007
Source: Business Standard

Indian scientists need
to be more enquiring

India’s science establishment needs to undertake more imaginative and investigative research if the challenge of climate change is to be met, writes Sunita Narain in the Business Standard.
The country’s scientists hesitate to draw inferences when there is uncertainty, she says, instead preferring to play it safe [...]

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Just One Opinion

May 28, 2007 – 6:18 pm

Highest mountain on Earth, Mt. Everest grows about 4 millimeters a year since two tectonic plates which collided millions of years ago to form the Himalayas, continue to press against each other. Earths highest waterfall is at Angel Falls in Venezuela which drops 3,212 feet (979 meters). Hottest place on earth is Azizia in Libya [...]

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