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Climate change: Arctic passes 400 parts per million milestone
Arctic monitoring stations show carbon dioxide levels are now above 400 parts per million. Carbon dioxide is the chief climate-change gas and stays in the atmosphere for 100 years. Before the Industrial Age, carbon dioxide levels were 275 ppm.
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Heartland Institute's digital billboards make bombastic comparisons (+video)
New billboards designed by the Heartland Institute compare climate scientists to the Unabomber, and other mass murderers. Climate scientists and other writers respond.
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How Mercury is like Saturn (and other surprises from NASA's orbiter)
NASA's Messenger craft has been orbiting Mercury for 88 days. Among its findings: a Saturn-like magnetic field, high concentrations of sulfur, and some support for the notion there is water ice in shadowed craters.
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Scientists calculate Ghengis Khan's carbon footprint
The 13th- and 14th-century Mongol invasion of Asia decreased global carbon dioxide by less than 0.1 part per million, researchers have found.
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Climate-change study: Today's power plants aren't the problem
But tomorrow's could be, unless efforts to combat climate change include much more development of carbon-free sources of energy. The findings appear Thursday in the journal Science.
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Trojan asteroid detected in Neptune's 'dead zone'
Trojan asteroid 2008 LC18 is orbiting in a fixed spot in Neptune's orbit where the gravitational pull of Neptune and the sun balance out. Its discovery may help shed light on questions about planetary formation.
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The moon may hold 100 times more water than previously thought
Researchers determined that the lunar water likely originated early in the moon's formation history, suggesting that it is, in fact, native to the moon.
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Independent review of IPCC and its global warming reports: an answer to critics
Top international scientists will take part in an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its reports on global warming, which have been widely criticized recently for inaccuracies.
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Global warming will cause plants and animals to migrate
A new study estimates that animals and plants will have to migrate, on average, nearly a quarter of a mile each year to keep up with shifting climate belts caused by global warming.
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Kepler passes first test - ready to hunt for other Earths
By gauging the subtle differences in light given off by a planet 1,000 light-years away, it shows that it's up to the job.
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Inside the planet hunter's lair
Geoff Marcy, astronomy’s Indiana Jones, had 10 days, one telescope, and a universe of planets to discover.
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