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Minister says venerable government lab will serve the needs of Canadian business
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Proposal differs in key details from bill that the House passed last month
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There's a new video lecture from Genie Scott: Denialism of Climate Change and Evolution.
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Texas Climate News reports that the Texas state House of Representatives failed to pass new water management legislation despite support from the governor and other powerful officials at a time when 98.55 percent of the state’s area was in one or another category of dryness ranging from “abnormally dry” to the driest of all, “exceptional drought.”
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Researchers discuss obstacles to much-debated brain mapping effort
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Astronomers ready to inspect some of the universe's most obscure regions
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Come Thursday week, I’ll be trying to keep my head about me when many before have lost theirs (though I doubt they blamed i on me). Which is to say, I’ll be talking Newton, the Mint, counterfeiters and all kinds of good stuff at the Tower of London at 6:30, May 16. It’s not a [...]
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In a keynote address Monday at the Humans to Mars Summit in Washington, NASA administrator Charles Bolden made the case that, if NASA is to achieve the president’s goal of sending humans to at least the vicinity of Mars by the 2030s, it has to follow the approach NASA is currently using, including development of [...]
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J B Rosser argues that, with prominent US economists pushing the idea of a carbon tax, the attitude in Europe is highly negative, along the lines of "Why should we try to do what you want us to do yet again when you shafted us the last time we did so?" The answer, of course, is that American voters don't care what Europe thinks, while the reverse is not true. The world just isn't fair sometimes.
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The Arctic Ocean is less effective at chemically neutralizing carbon dioxide’s acidifying effects, and being cold, favors the transfer of carbon dioxide from the air into the ocean. Newly open water opens the door for an ocean acidification crisis in the Arctic, which will alter ecosystems and commercial fisheries.
