NewsFactor – Popular news-collection and social-networking Web site Digg.com is cutting back its workforce in…
Month: January 2009
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Feds Approve Stem Cell Tests on Patients With Spinal Cord Injuries
Candidate Barack Obama promised to lift Bush Administration restrictions on embryonic stem cell research. Two…
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High-tech sensors help seniors live independently (AP)
AP – After back-to-back hospital visits for congestive heart failure, Eva Olweean figured her health…
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Western tree deaths rise with temperatures
Oregonian: Tree death rates are rising in established old-growth forests across the West, scientists say….
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Study ties tree deaths to change in climate
Washington Post: The death rates of trees in Western U.S. forests have doubled over the…
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Treeline Advances In Canada’s Arctic
ScienceDaily: In a widely recognized painting by Tom Thomson, a bent and lonely tree hunches…
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Calif farmers slash planting to cope with drought
Associated Press: Some of the nation’s largest farms plan to cut back on planting crops…
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Factoring in fish
Nature: Fish may contribute to the ocean carbon cycle in a previously unsuspected way. Traditionally,…
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Shifting sink
Nature: Over the past decade, the North Atlantic Ocean has been absorbing less and less…
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Plankton experiment may create new hazards
Business Report: A polar icebreaker, the Polarstern, is reportedly heading for the Antarctic on the…