Tornadoes are usually drawn to wide-open spaces. That's according to climatologist Dev Niyogi of Purdue University. So Niyogi wondered...Dev Niyogi: Why did we get a tornado in an urban region like Atlanta. [...]
Topics: earth

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In mid-April 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases associated with climate change are pollutants. [...]
Topics: health

{"title":"Dan Greenbaum on greenhouse gases and the threat to public health","post_url":"http:\/\/www.earthsky.org\/interviewpost\/health\/epa-greenhouse-gases-are-pollutants-threat-to-public-health","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/earthsky","author":"earthsky","date":"2009-11-09 01:00:00","summary":"In mid-April 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases associated with climate change are pollutants. [...] "}

John Barry: The world's going to be burning fossil fuels for a long time to come. And carbon capture and storage, or CCS, is the best, in some ways the only chance to de-carbonize those fuels. [...]
Topics: energy

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Christopher Raxworthy: Over the recent last 30,40, 50 years, geographic isolation has been the dominant recognized way that you get new species. You isolate populations and you run evolution long enough and they become different. But what I'm seeing..
Topics: biodiversity

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Elke Anklam: What is nanofood? It's food which contains some tiny elements - "nanomaterials" - in the food, to make it more tasty or bring more nutrients to the body, or it is produced using nanotechnology. [...]
Topics: health

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