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5,510 results for: Forests

  1. Climate

    U.S. backs $100-billion-a-year plan for climate adaptation

    Blog from Copenhagen: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived at the climate talks December 17, and debate continued over how much 'transparency' countries are willing to accept.

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  2. Climate

    Plumes of arctic haze traced to Russia, Kazakhstan

    Smoke from forest fires, agricultural burning may be substantial part of springtime plumes.

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  3. Plants

    Oops, missed that tree

    Until now, an acacia common in its African homeland had no scientific name

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  4. Life

    Fossil find sparks debate on primate origins

    A 37-million-year-old jaw suggests the famous fossil Darwinius does not, as had been suggested, fill a gap in human evolution.

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  5. Space

    Hotter than the sun

    Researchers for the first time directly observe Alfvén waves.

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  6. Evolution’s Bad Girl

    Ardi shakes up the fossil record.

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  7. The Biofuel Future

    Scientists seek ways to make green energy pay off.

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  8. Earth

    A little air pollution boosts vegetation’s carbon uptake

    Aerosols bumped up world’s plant productivity by 25 percent in the 1960s and 1970s, new research suggests.

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  9. Humans

    2009 Science News of the Year: Humans

    An artist’s illustration shows how a female Ardipithecus may have looked. An analysis of Ardi’s bones, uncovered from 1992 through 1997, was released this year. Credit: J.H. Matternes Ardi puts new spin on hominid evolution A 4.4-million-year-old partial female skeleton discovered in Africa, along with fossils from at least 36 of her comrades, provide the […]

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  10. Ecosystems

    Thwarting Tree Poachers

    A new federal rule makes it harder to destroy protected forests.

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  11. Tech

    Energy forest

    Silicon nanowires can at least double the storage capacity of lithium-ion batteries.

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  12. Chemistry

    Flowerless plants make fancy amber

    A new analysis suggests that ancient seed plants made a version of the fossilized resin credited to more modern relatives

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