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• Seismic observatory set up at AMU

  
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  Aligarh, Dec 19 (IANS) Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Vice Chancellor P.K. Abdul Azis Saturday inaugurated a broadband seismological observatory in the geology department to monitor seismic activity in the Indo-Gangetic plains region.The project, undertaken by the Hyderabad-based National Geophysical Research ...
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• AGU: Mysteries of Enceladus

  
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  As much as 50% of the plume shooting out of geysers on Saturns moon Enceladus could be ice, scientists reported at the AGU conference. Read the full story here .
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• New data to shed light on ‘ghost mountains’ of Antarctica

  
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  London, December 19 (ANI): An international team of scientists has announced the first set of data about the most enigmatic mountain ranges on Earth, which are popularly dubbed as the ‘ghost mountains’.According to a report in BBC News, the team spent two months in 2008/9 surveying the Gamburtsevs in Antarctica - ...
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• Scientists discover fog on Saturn’s largest moon

  
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  Washington, Dec 19 (IANS) Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, looks to be the only place in the solar system - aside from our planet, with copious quantities of liquid, largely liquid methane and ethane, on its surface.Earth and Titan share yet another feature, which is inextricably linked with that surface liquid - ...
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• AGU: Interview with the USGS director

  
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  New US Geological Survey director Marcia McNutt talked with Nature this week about her priorities in the job. Read the full interview here .
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• AGU: Deep-sea volcano caught on tape

  
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  Footage of an eruption nearly 1,200 metres under the sea was unveiled this week at the AGU meeting. The 50-plus hours of high-definition film, complete with background sound, represent one of the first times that lava has been caught flowing on the deep sea floor. Read the full story here .
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• AGU: New findings from the moon

  
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  Temperatures on the Moon are cold enough to freeze nitrogen, according to new findings from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Read the full story here .
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• Aurora borealis can sometimes produce spectacular explosions of light

  
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  Washington, December 18 (ANI): A network of cameras deployed around the Arctic in support of NASA’s THEMIS mission has discovered that sometimes, vast curtains of the aurora borealis collide, producing spectacular outbursts of light.Movies of the phenomenon were unveiled at the Fall Meeting of the American ...
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• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
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  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
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• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
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  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
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• Ancient algae provide insights into Earth’s response to global warming

  
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  Washington, December 17 (ANI): In a new study, a team of scientists, using algae records from the early Pliocene, when earth’s climate was warmer, has suggested that coastal upwelling off the California coast was sustained in this period even though sea surface temperatures were several degrees higher than ...
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• Can you trust the science?

  
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  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
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• Secrets of noctilucent clouds unlocked by NASA’s AIM satellite

  
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  AIM satellite deepens understanding of noctilucent clouds.
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• Scientists monitor earthquake news on Twitter

  
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  San Francisco, Dec 16 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Scientists at the United States Geological Survey are sure moving with the times. They have noticed that users of the social networking and micro blogging site Twitter in the seismically active areas of the world were very fast to note and report any temblors and movements of the ...
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• How Titan’s ice erodes easily

  
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  Washington, December 16 (ANI): A new research has determined that Saturn’s moon Titan’s ice is stronger than most bedrock found on earth, yet it is more brittle, causing it to erode more easily.San Francisco State University Assistant Professor Leonard Sklar carried out the research. At the American Geophysical ...
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• AGU: Day of the tsunami

  
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  The morning of September 29, 2009, was one Mase Akapo will never forget. Akapo is a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Pago Pago, American Samoa, and one of his jobs is to help prepare the islands for natural disasters. At 6:48 a.m. that day, he felt the ground shaking stronger than he’d ever felt ...
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• AGU: Dont forget to check out Climate Feedback

  
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  Id be remiss in not mentioning that my freelance colleague Harvey Leifert is blogging climate topics from AGU for our sister site Nature Reports Climate Change, here . And dont miss their coverage of the Copenhagen negotiations; the sites editor Olive Heffernan is there, as is my Nature colleague Jeff Tollefson ...
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• AGU: Arctic vegetation changes amplify warming

  
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  Chalk up another piece of dire news for the Arctic in a globally warmed future. Researchers have identified a previously unknown climate feedback effect suggesting that, as vegetation creeps northward, it will accelerate warming trends already in place. Read the full story on Nature News here .
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• Rainy Taiwan faces awkward water shortage

  
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   Chronically rainy Taiwan faces a rare water shortage as leaders ask that people on the dense, consumption-happy island of 23 million finally start changing habits as dry weather is forecast into early 2010.  Taiwan, a west Pacific island covered with rainforests and topical fruit orchards, is used to rain in ...
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• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
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  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
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