Earth

  1. Earth

    Amazon basin is wetter now than in past

    Sediments from the Atlantic Ocean indicate that the now lush Amazon Basin was much drier during the latest ice age.

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  2. Earth

    Explorers pinpoint source of the Amazon

    A five-nation team of explorers has used Global Positioning System equipment to confirm that the source of the Amazon is a snowmelt-fed stream high in the Peruvian Andes.

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  3. Earth

    Scientists analyze volcanoes’ killing ways

    Death patterns from more than 400 volcanic eruptions through history may reveal ways to reduce the number of fatalities from similar causes in the future.

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  4. Earth

    Lake sediment tells of Maya droughts

    Sediment cores taken last year from the bottom of a lake on Mexico's Yucatán peninsula indicate that a series of extended droughts coincided with major cultural upheavals among the Mayan inhabitants of the area.

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  5. Earth

    Sediments show bipolar melting cycle

    Both the North and South Poles have experienced regular and simultaneous periods of significant melting during the past 3 million years, according to sediments from the ocean floor at high latitudes.

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  6. Earth

    Snowpack chemistry can deplete ozone

    Pollutants trapped in Arctic snow can be reactivated by sunlight when the sun returns to high latitudes in the spring, leading to ozone depletion in the snowpack and at low altitudes.

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  7. Earth

    Pollution in India may affect climate

    Computer models show that air pollution over India could be preventing up to 15 percent of the sunlight from reaching the ground in the springtime, possibly causing temperature drops of up to 2 degrees Celsius.

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  8. Earth

    Y2K: One of the hottest, wettest yet

    Preliminary data from the National Climatic Data Center indicate the year 2000 will be one of the six hottest and one of the ten wettest years on record.

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  9. Earth

    Macho Waters

    Some river pollution spawns body-altering steroids.

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  10. Agriculture

    Tasteful new wrapping can protect produce

    New, fruit- and vegetable-based edible packaging could reduce the amount of synthetic wrapping needed to protect food.

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  11. Earth

    Seeded Clouds ‘Explode’

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