Mexico City (AFP) Nov 30, 2016 -
Mayors from scores of the world's biggest cities gathered in Mexico Wednesday to plot their strategy for fighting climate change in the face of skepticism from US President-elect Donald Trump.
As leaders of busy, polluted cities home to millions of people, they want countries to push on with adopting the so-called Paris Agreement to limit harmful emissions - an accord that Trump has cast do ...
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College Station, Texas (UPI) Nov 30, 2016 -
Some 6,000 years ago, the Sahara Desert was regularly drowned by tropical rains. It wasn't a desert at all, but vast grasslands. Today, the Sahara features some of driest acreage on Earth.
Recently, a pair of researchers from Texas A&M University and Yale University set out to explain how such a vast climatic transformation can happen in such a short amount of time. In order to do so, t ...
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Paris (ESA) Nov 09, 2016 -
Scattered pockets of magnetism across the surface of Mars have a significant influence on the planet's upper atmosphere, according to observations from ESA's Mars Express. Understanding these effects may be crucial for ensuring safe radio communications between Mars and Earth and, eventually, between explorers on the surface of the planet.
Earth's magnetic field is dominated by a single, s ...
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 09, 2016 -
Single-celled microbes are considered a living example of the kind of life that might exist elsewhere in the Universe, as they are able to survive some of the extreme conditions that exist on other worlds. New research on the bacterium Tepidibacillus decaturensis shows that it could be a model organism for what might live on Mars, should any creature inhabit the Red Planet.
This microorgan ...
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 09, 2016 -
Single-celled microbes are considered a living example of the kind of life that might exist elsewhere in the Universe, as they are able to survive some of the extreme conditions that exist on other worlds. New research on the bacterium Tepidibacillus decaturensis shows that it could be a model organism for what might live on Mars, should any creature inhabit the Red Planet.
This microorgan ...
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Mars' ionosphere shaped by crustal magnetic fields
Paris (ESA) Nov 09, 2016 -
Scattered pockets of magnetism across the surface of Mars have a significant influence on the planet's upper atmosphere, according to observations from ESA's Mars Express. Understanding these effects may be crucial for ensuring safe radio communications between Mars and Earth and, eventually, between explorers on the surface of the planet.
Earth's magnetic field is dominated by a single, s ...
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Leicester, UK (SPX) Nov 11, 2016 -
Scientists in Leicester have moved one step closer to understanding exactly what happened to the ill-fated Mars Lander Beagle 2, thanks to an innovative research technique. The probe was discovered on the Red Planet in November 2014, but uncertainty surrounded what had caused its failure to communicate with Earth.
Now, a collaboration between De Montfort University and the University of Le ...
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