Daily Archives: 2011/03/24

Middle East Turmoil Reflects Global Anxiety about Wheat


Supplies of the staple food grain are tight–and may get tighter Underlying the wave of unrest across North Africa and the Middle East is the fact that some of the cries for democracy are coming from mouths in need of … Continue reading

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Cutting carbon dioxide helps prevent drying


Washington, D.C.—Recent climate modeling has shown that reducing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would give the Earth a wetter climate in the short term. New research from Carnegie Global Ecology scientists Long Cao and Ken Caldeira offers … Continue reading

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Measurements of winter Arctic sea ice shows continuing ice loss, says CU-Boulder study


The 2011 Arctic sea ice extent maximum that marks the beginning of the melt season appears to be tied for the lowest ever measured by satellites, say scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder‘s National Snow and Ice Data Center. … Continue reading

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