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Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L10707; doi:10.1029/2009GL037998.

ZENN has stepped up to the plate and funded the next tranche of funding for the EEStor ultra capacitor system. This is welcome. We as complete outsiders can never know how valid a company’s representations are, while an interested large investor is

Graphene keeps coming up with surprises, but somehow a mass less transfer of physical electrons seems a bit of a stretch. This is the sort of discrepancy that generates new physics and it is exciting for that reason.At this point, no one knows what

I find these comments by Putin to be the most encouraging ever. The western press loves to get frantic over Russian bluster, forgetting that it is part of their culture to negotiate through bluster. This comment acknowledges that the encouragement

Eerie Red Glow Traces Ocean Plant HealthNASA, May 28, 2009: A unique signal detected by NASA's Aqua satellite is helping researchers check the health and productivity of ocean plants around the world.Fluorescent red light emitted

Nature 459, 556-559 (28 May 2009) | doi:10.1038/nature08031 (Received 24 August 2008, accepted 25 March 2009.)The effect of permafrost thaw on old carbon release and net carbon exchange from tundraEdward A. G. Schuur*1,4, Jason G. Vogel1,4,

Arctic thaw could prompt huge release of carbon dioxide But plant growth initially offsets permafrost carbon release Anjali Nayar, Nature News, May 27, 2009 More plant growth will absorb some of the carbon

Press Release 09-111 Arctic Tundra May Contribute to Warmer World Researchers predict

Atmosphere Sea Ice Biology Ocean Greenland Land Warming (red) and mixed (yellow) signals

Spring agricultural fires have large impact on melting Arctic physorg.com, May 26th, 2009 !-- --> Scientists from around

Burning crops darken Arctic sky, speed polar meltby Randy Boswell, Canwest News Service, May 27, 2009The collapse of the Soviet Union and the loosening of state control over crop burning in Russia has had an unexpected impact in the Canadian North: the

Melting Greenland Ice Sheet may threaten northeast United States, Canada This visualization (click to enlarge details), based on new computer modeling, shows that sea level rise may be an additional 10 centimeters (4 inches) higher by populated

This is the first serious measure of what has been lost in terms of our global fishery. Of much more concern is the ongoing lack of willingness to tackle the economic fallout and to establish protocols that can bring about recovery.The loss is huge

It is always much more telling when a scientific leader is advancing his stature by calling everyone out on the global warming hypothesis. More telling is that he is leading the chorus on the challenge to the granting of a Nobel Prize to Al Gore and