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![]() Canberra, Australi (SPX) Oct 13, 2010 The delivery of sustainable water supplies in Australia will require water managers and engineers to factor in a range of predicted variations in climate and long-term demand for water resources, according to a CSIRO climate and water expert, Dr Francis Chiew. "With an expected decline in water availability in parts of Australia comes the need for more reliable quantification of historical and likely future water availability," Dr Chiew said in an address to the Practical Responses to Climate Chan ... read more |
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'A-Train' Satellites Search For 770 Million Tons Of Dust In The Air![]() Using data from several research satellites, scientists will spend the next three years trying to understand the climate impacts of about 770 million tons of dust carried into the atmosphere every year from the Sahara Desert. Some Saharan dust falls back to Earth before it leaves Africa. Some of it streams out over the Atlantic Ocean or Mediterranean Sea, carried on the wind as far away as ... more NASA Partnership Sends Earth Science Data To Africa ![]() A unique partnership between NASA and agencies in Africa and Europe has sent more than 30 terabytes of free Earth science satellite data to South African researchers to support sustainable development and environmental applications in Africa. The data from one of the instruments on NASA's Terra satellite provide observations of Africa's surface and atmosphere, including vegetation structur ... more NASA Study Sees Earth's Water Cycle Pulse Quickening ![]() Freshwater is flowing into Earth's ocean in greater amounts every year, thanks to more frequent and extreme storms related to global warming, according to a first-of-its-kind study by a team of NASA and university researchers. The team, led by Tajdarul Syed of the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India, and formerly with the University of California, Irvine, used NASA and other world-scale ... more |
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![]() Budapest (AFP) Oct 7, 2010 Dead fish floated in the Danube Thursday after a toxic sludge spill that killed four people in Hungary reached Europe's second longest river, threatening to decimate marine life, officials said. Blood-red sludge reached the main branch of the Danube at around midday (1000 GMT), after wiping out all life in the smaller Marcal tributary, said Tibor Dobson, the regional chief of Hungary's disaster relief services. "I can confirm that we have seen sporadic losses of fish in the main branch of the D ... read more |
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