The past, present and future of African dust
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 25, 2016 -
So much dust is scattered across the planet by the winds of the Sahara that it alters the climate. However, the emission and transport of this dust, which can reach the poles, fluctuate considerably. Although many hypotheses have been put forward to explain this phenomenon, no unambiguous relationship between this dust and the climate had been established until now.
According to research c ...
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NASA Gets Down to Earth with Globe-Spanning Campaigns
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 25, 2016 -
NASA is sending scientists around the world in 2016 - from the edge of the Greenland ice sheet to the coral reefs of the South Pacific - to delve into challenging questions about how our planet is changing and what impacts humans are having on it.
While Earth science field experiments are nothing new for NASA, the next six months will be a particularly active period with eight major new ca ...
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Poland approves logging Europe's last primeval forest
Warsaw (AFP) March 25, 2016 -
Poland on Friday gave the go ahead for large-scale logging in the Bialowieza forest intended to combat a spruce bark beetle infestation, despite scientists, ecologists and the EU protesting the move in Europe's last primeval woodland.
"We're acting to curb the degradation of important habitats, to curb the disappearance and migration of important species from this site," Jan Szyszko, environ ...
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MH370 analysis starts on debris: Australia
Sydney (AFP) March 23, 2016 -
Investigators probing the fate of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have begun analysis on debris found in Mozambique, Australian authorities said Wednesday.
So far only a wing part from the Boeing 777 recovered from a beach on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion has been found.
MH370 disappeared on March 8, 2014 during a Kuala Lumpur-Beijing flight with 239 passengers and crew on bo ...
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Australia invests $760 million in technologies to fight climate change
Sydney (AFP) March 23, 2016 -
Australia will invest Aus$1 billion in clean energy technologies, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Wednesday, in a stark shift away from his predecessor's climate change policies as an election looms.
Turnbull, long known as a supporter of action on climate change, said the Clean Energy Innovation Fund would be run by two agencies slated for the chopping board under former prime minister ...
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China regulator frowns on Anbang's hotel bids: report
Shanghai (AFP) March 23, 2016 -
China's insurance regulator is opposed to multi-billion dollar bids by financial conglomerate Anbang for Starwood Hotels and a stable of properties owned by hedge fund Blackstone, according to respected business magazine Caixin.
Anbang has offered nearly $13 billion for Starwood, owner of the Sheraton and Westin brands, as well as $6.5 billion for the purchase of 16 luxury hotels from Blacks ...
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Quantum simulation of a disordered system explain quantum many-particle problem
Urbana IL (SPX) Mar 21, 2016 -
Using some of the largest supercomputers available, physics researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have produced one of the largest simulations ever to help explain one of physics most daunting problems. "This result was a fantastic collaboration between theory and experiment," explained Physics Professor Brian DeMarco, whose group led the experimental phase of the study ...
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