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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Earth Not Only Getting Warmer, but Wetter

Study finds human tweaks to temperature also increase humidity

Oct 10, 07 4:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - The earth, long known to be getting warmer, is also getting more humid, and human activity is to blame, Reuters reports. Findings based on computerized climate models confirmed long-standing predictions that the rising temperatures brought about by trapped greenhouse gases would lead to humidity increases. Only models with "the... More »

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global warming • nature

Oh Poop! Hikers Have to Pack it Out on Whitney

Outhouses dismantled, climbers supplied with sanitary kits

Sep 5, 07 4:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - If you you brought it with you—even internally—you've got to pack it back down. That's the new policy on Mt. Whitney where officials have to deal with excrement left by thousands who take to the heights every year.  Air lifting bags of human waste from high-altitude outhouses... More »

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waste • hiking • nature • Mount Whitney • hikers

UK Floods Linked to Warming

Jul 24, 07 4:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Central Britain is under water after record rains, and scientists are now saying that the heavy downfall is caused by man-made global warming. Britain's sodden summer, with swollen rivers, thousand homeless and water plants failing, has been caused by a southward shift of the jet stream. Not unprecedented, the Independent... More »

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global warming • United Kingdom • flooding • nature • rain • Tewkesbury • Britain

A Megaflood Made England an Island

Sonar shows Channel
carved violently; bridge to continent cut

Jul 19, 07 8:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - England became an island as a result of a massive flood that tore through a land bridges to France 400,000 years ago, a study of  high-resolution sonar images of the bottom of the English Channel shows. The torrent of water and boulders carved the cliffs of Dover, and left... More »

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France • science • England • nature • English Channel

Butterfly Evolves in Blink of Eye

Parasite forces hyper-speed adaptation in male blue moon butterflies

Jul 13, 07 8:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - One of the fastest evolutionary changes ever observed has been witnessed by scientists studying butterflies in the South Pacific, the BBC reports. Blue Moon butterflies managed to fight off a deadly parasitic bacteria by developing suppressor genes to fight the bacteria in just six years. Hard-hit males rebounded from 1%... More »

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evolution • science • nature • butterflies

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