Our flammable planet Wildfires are not new. They have occurred continuously On earth for at least the last 400 million years says Jennifer Balch of Penn State university
and space involving weather conditions local winds landscape features microclimates day-tonight changes in atmospheric conditions soil moisture and the types and distribution of vegetation.
While most birds sit on their eggs to keep their unhatched young warm maleos bury their large eggs in underground nests letting heat from geothermal sources the sun
and across space says Liu. This is very important because when you release pandas you need to know where the good places to release pandas are.
No Martians. The best estimates are that some 8000-10000 workers at a time labored over 20 years Redding said.
and supporting the national effort to give laying hens more space. And there's The HSUS effort to phase out gestation crates
In 2003 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health re-launched the effort with The Monday Campaigns to promote replacing meat one day per week for human health and the health of the planet.
By choosing to adopt a meat-free menu one day a week you can help animals the planet and your health.
What we are about is getting higher resolution in space and time Chandrasekar told Livescience.
Earth's climate is the result of a balance between the amount of incoming energy from the sun
and energy being radiated out into space. Incoming solar radiation strikes Earth's atmosphere in the form of visible light plus ultraviolet and infrared radiation
Some of the sun's incoming radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere the oceans and the surface of the Earth.
Much of it however is reflected back out to space as low-energy IR radiation. For Earth's temperature to remain stable the amount of incoming solar radiation should be roughly equal to the amount of IR radiation leaving the atmosphere.
Some of these historical changes can be attributed to changes in the amount of solar radiation hitting the planet.
Another group of kids watched TV footage of the same soccer star at an event not related to the snack food.
The soccer star in the commercial has been endorsing that brand for more than 15 years the researchers said.
Nonetheless China is home to about 1. 3 billion people over one-seventh of the planet's people live in the nation.
The Moon Festival is celebrated in September or October with fireworks paper lanterns and moon gazing.
#Cholesterol: Understanding and Managing HDL and LDL Cholesterol is a waxy material that is produced naturally by the liver.
Using data available from the Earth-observing Landsat satellite the team looked at all the Western fires that burned more than 1000 acres (400 hectares) of both public and private land starting in 1984.
At the time Hansen was still the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New york. He retired from that position in April in part to pursue political and legal efforts on combating climate change.
and his co-authors say Earth's climate history suggests the level of emissions cited to stay below the 2-degree threshold would result in a significantly different planet than the one humans know today
We need to reforest the planet; it's imperative. To do that it just makes sense to use the largest oldest most iconic trees that ever lived Milarch was quoted as saying.
In a planet on track to surpass nine billion people by mid-century we are going to need every drop of fresh water we can get John Goedschalk the executive director of Conservation International Suriname said in a statement.
The IPCC draft maintains that it's not too late for emissions cuts to change the planet's climate course
Saving the Planet is Good Business (Op-Ed After six years the outcomes of our efforts are encouraging.
So in order to help ensure a water-secure future for the planet we must all become a driving force for better smarter water stewardship.
But according to Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity which explains how gravity operates in the universe real-life time travel isn't just a vague fantasy.</
></p><p>NASA's newest rover won't be exploring another planet but will take a look at part of our own.
It was developed from 2010-2011 by teams of students in summer engineering boot camps at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland according to a release from NASA.</
</p><p>The most widely accepted theory is that a huge asteroid or comet (not a UFO or chunk of antimatter) exploded as it entered Earth's atmosphere.
But with just one death few witnesses and no fragments nor any impact craters to study scientists have been left to puzzle over what exactly caused the so-called Tunguska event.</
<a href=http://www. livescience. com/29258-first-tunguska-meteorites. html target=blank>1st Meteorites from 1908 Tunguska Explosion Possibly Found</a p><p
This bouncing baby boy made his Internet debut as the star of the first-ever live-tweeted Cesarean section on Feb 20.
<a href=http://www. livescience. com/26933-chicxulub-cosmic-impact-dinosaurs. html target=blank>Asteroid Impact That Killed the Dinosaurs:
Vortex loops are common phenomena showing up in not only smoke rings but mushroom clouds fire-eater tricks and even the sun's outer atmosphere the corona.</
#Coolest Science Stories of the Week<p></p><p>Mini black holes images of early birds and talking plants topped our favorite stories this week.</
Primitive life could have lived on ancient Mars NASA says.</</p><p>A sample of Mars drilled from a rock by NASA's Curiosity rover and then studied by onboard instruments shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes NASA officials announced today (March 12) in a statement and press conference.</
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Ancient Mars Could Have supported Primitive Life NASA Says</a p><p></p><p>A newfound particle discovered at the world's largest atom smasher last year is indeed a Higgs boson the particle thought to explain how other
particles get their mass scientists reported today (March 14) at the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference in Italy.</
><p>A real-time look at plant sex in an environment simulating microgravity reveals that agriculture in space might face challenges.</
<a href=http://www. livescience. com/27868-plant-sex-zero-gravity. html target=blank>Sex in Space:
Plant Canoodling Is Weird Without Gravity</a p><p></p><p>Scientists have identified tentatively several particles lurking deep inside the Earth's mantle that could reveal how much heat the planet produces
and confirm that the Earth formed from materials from the sun.</p><p>The wacky particles are called geoneutrinos or the antimatter partners of neutrinos (exotic fundamental particles that can pass right through Earth) that form deep within the Earth
Ancient Mars Could Have supported Primitive Life NASA Says</a p><p></p><p>A newly deciphered Egyptian text dating back almost 1200 years tells part of the crucifixion story of Jesus with apocryphal
</a p><p></p><p>Creating microscopic black holes using particle accelerators requires less energy than previously thought researchers say.</
</p><p>If physicists do succeed in creating black holes with such energies On earth the achievement could prove the existence of extra dimensions in the universe physicists noted.</
<a href=http://www. livescience. com/27811-creating-mini-black-holes. html target=blank>Mini Black holes Easier To Make Than Thought</a p><p></p><p>The forest really does hum
which may limit the planet's farmable land and it also becomes incapable of safely storing carbon dioxide meaning more CO2 a greenhouse gas gets released back into the atmosphere.
The oldest angiosperm fossil that has been found to date is Archaefructus liaoningensis found by Ge Sun and David Dilcher in China.
and mixed together by temperatures consistent with the blast impact of an asteroid about 6 miles (10 km) across striking the Earth at this point.
In 1966 a farmer said he saw a flying saucer rise up from a swampy area and fly away;
Referred in the press as flying saucer nests this story is more a UFO report than a crop circle report.
others suggest that they do it using invisible energy beams from space saving them the trip down here.
Still others believe that it is human not extraterrestrial thought and intelligence that is behind the patterns not in the form of hoaxers but some sort of global psychic power that manifests itself in wheat and other crops.
when two men confessed that they had created the patterns for decades as a prank to make people think UFOS had landed (they had been inspired by the 1966 Tully UFO report).
Though there seems no logical reason for extraterrestrials or earth energies to only create patterns at night it is obviously a great advantage for hoaxers to create the designs under the cover of darkness;
in order to stop the slaughter of the planet's elephant population. I encourage all to visit 96elephants. org to help end the elephant crisis. The views expressed are those of the author
As news spread some conspiracy-minded folk soon speculated about links to animal mutilations UFOS or even the dreaded Hispanic vampire el chupacabra.
This destructive practice entails cutting down a patch of trees burning them and growing crops on the land until the soil becomes too degraded from overgrazing and sun exposure for new growth.
and with increased exposure to sun the soil can dry out leading to problems like increased flooding and inability to farm.
A Space Odyssey. The research was detailed May 2 in the journal Scientific Reports. Follow Megan Gannon on Twitter and Google+.
Last October on a NOVA documentary the team tried walking the replica using people holding ropes on each side to rock the statue forward and back on a dirt path in Hawaii.
By contrast in the NOVA exercise it was like an airport runway Stevenson said. And the replica the team moved is on the small side for statues some
Crowded Planet: 7 (Billion) Population Milestones Entomophagy has picked up momentum over the years Louis Sorkin an entomologist at the American Museum of Natural history in New york city
 Among other benefits insects take up little space can be raised on waste and research indicates they emit fewer greenhouse gases than conventional livestock according to the report.
Biodiversity can refer to variability of life within a species'gene pool an ecosystem and on a much larger scale the entire planet.
and would howl at the moon like a wolf. He tried with limited success to get them to speak
and author of six books including The Martians Have landed: A History of Media Panics and Hoaxes.
Southwestern Wildfires Seen from Space Don't burn chaparral In California as the population sprawls the fires grow.
The nonnative species that eagerly occupy open space on fire breaks and in cleared chaparral act as kindling for flying embers said Fotheringham.
Defending your space In California when houses burn blown embers are at fault not trees or chaparral.
California law requires all homeowners to clear a defensible space. The guidelines call for trimming branches keeping tall plants
because they are ambassadors for the future of our one and only planet. We need to stop ignoring nature and end the widespread and heartless war on other animals now.
But recent research published in the journal Water Resources Research suggests that in some areas snow melts faster under forests than it does in open spaces.
and wind speed the team's model considered energy coming from the sun at different times of the year
which protect it from sun and wind according to Dickerson-Lange. But in maritime climates like western Washington or California the air itself is much warmer.
Everything that has a temperature--trees soil people the sun--emits radiation. Trees like other objects on the earth mainly emit long-wave infrared radiation
But at the time this grass-eating horse roamed the planet the region would have been covered in grasslands and shrubby woods rich grounds for grazing.
Scientists think these might act as sun protection like football players painting black marks under their eyes.
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Antarctica s Pine Island Glacier Cracks Humbert and her colleagues studied high resolution radar images taken by the Terrasar-X satellite to track the changes in the two cracks
and is healthier for the planet and people (we'll get to that next). According to the U s. Environmental protection agency about 84 million acres in the United states are devoted to corn
but only after GMO proponents like Monsanto General mills Pepsico Dupont Hershey Cargill Kellogg Hormel Kraft Mars Goya Ocean Spray Nestle and other industrial food
At the time the wide open spaces of the west weren't working out so well for pioneers the shadeless prairie was hot in the summer with few windbreaks to keep tilled soil from blowing right into Kansas. The solution?
Oh and greening up urban spaces may even improve city dwellers'mental health. 3 . And America's national tree is America has a national tree
The Dejoria family is committed to contributing to a sustainable planet through investing in people protecting animals and conserving the environment.
We need to be careful not to kill the messengers who constantly remind us just how lucky we are to live on our one and only magnificent planet
Hoekstra's most recent Op-Ed was Overshoot Day Living Too large on a Finite Planet.
In the 1960s when the space race was at its peak NASA funding represented as much as 4. 4 percent of federal spending.
In fact the Countermeasure and Functional Testing study is part of NASA's long-term bed-rest research that seeks to mimic the antigravity environment of space On earth by positioning participants in bed head tilted slightly downward day in and day out.
The findings are important both for the health of astronauts doing long stints aboard the International Space station and for future spaceflight missions.
The goal of this project is to develop shelf-stable palatable 3d printed foods for a mission to Mars
Space Food: What Astronauts Eat Coburn criticizes both projects as well as several other NASA efforts for being focused on a mission to Mars arguing the agency is nowhere near launching such a journey.
But NASA has to take the long view said Michael Halpern the program manager of the Center for Science and Democracy at the science advocacy group Union of Concerned Scientists.
This knowledge about red crabs will likely be useful in very few places in the universe.
The crabs certainly will not be found in Mars or even any other earthly location Coburn writes.
which protects the planet from ultraviolet radiation) have GWPS in the thousands. That means that even miniscule CFC emissions can severely impact the atmosphere.
A new satellite imaging technique has allowed scientists to see Amazonian fires burning beneath the jungle canopy called understory fires which were previously difficult to detect.
or frequency of these understory fires Doug Morton a researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md. and the study's lead author said in the statement.
NASA scientists are using an instrument on the Terra satellite to detect these signs of damage which include slight alterations in the amount and condition of foliage present.
I see it like the sun whom Agido summons to appear and witness for us.
Although an ally of Sparta during the long Peloponnesian war Thebes had become the lodestar of resistance
and we began inventing the processes that would change the planet forever. Agriculture takes root Agriculture is one of the primary ways in
which human activity has impacted the planet. By 8000 B c. the cultivation of wheat barley and other plants had spread from its origins in the Fertile Crescent through much of the Indo european world.
Science has continued to help us increase the carrying capacity of the planet but not the size of the planet.
Holocene extinction Pressure from the human population has had far-reaching effects on the biodiversity of the planet.
A laser isotope ratio-meter was developed to search for methane gas on Mars according to Wired UK.
If you haven t heard about the threat oesuperbugs (bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics) pose to our health it s likely you haven t been conscious or on the planet for a couple of years.
And at the base of this tree some have imagined there sits a mild-mannered microbe that lived more than 3 billion years ago unaware that its genes would be the starting point of an entire planet's worth of highly differentiated life.
The ultimate goal is to understand how our planet's biochemistry is an instantiation of the universal laws of life
Mars Discovery Raises Question: What Is Life? The principles of universal biology should be applicable to all life irrespective of
and provides a whimsical space for kids to sit in thrones carved out of large stumps climb through tunnels sawed into downed trunks
or dance across your hardwood floor remember that as a consumer you can play an important role in protecting the most precious places on the planet.
These cells have the capability to develop into any tissue in the body a talent that could make them the stars of regenerative medicine the goal
Earth's Vanishing Ice A window into the past Lake El'gygytgyn or Lake E as the researchers refer to it was formed 3. 6 million years ago when a meteorite hit Earth and carved out
Moran is director of NEPTUNE Canada an underwater ocean observatory managed by the University of Victoria in British columbia.
Understanding Earth's sensitivity is one of the key parameters for predicting future conditions of the planet under global warming.
The Nourishmat Garden System a 4-by-6 mat with a planting grid and built-in irrigation was designed in 2011 as a way to make home gardening simple and accessible to anyone with a few square feet of space
All you need to do is plant the seedball in the corresponding space on your Nourishmat water it
and wildflowers that grow in the spaces between big trees. And without the duff layer some animals lack a place to live.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest report on the science of global warming squarely blames humans as the primary cause of climate change saying it is extremely likely that human activities have caused most of the warming of the planet's surface
and emitted into the atmosphere before the increase in the planet's average surface temperature creeps above 3. 6 degrees Fahrenheit the panelists said.
so that they are still able to communicate with satellites To that end the devices are equipped with small parachutes
There's no space aliens. We don't know if this is Ciudad Blanca. The documentary team has worded announcements of the discoveries with care they are utilizing Lidar technology to seek ancient settlements
The shoe-filled jar along with two other jars had been placed deliberately in a small space between two mudbrick walls writes archaeologist Angelo Sesana in a report published in the journal Memnonia.
along with a vast expanse of ancient urban spaces that made up Greater Angkor the large area where one of the largest religious monuments ever constructed Angkor Wat meaning temple city was built between A d. 1113
The survey revealed with exceptional clarity traces of planned urban spaces hidden beneath the dense forest surrounding the major temples of Angkor they wrote.
since they need more resources including space to survive. When food supplies dwindled these giant creatures could have had a tough time finding enough food Pimiento said.
1. Dry each soil sample in the sun or in an oven 2. Label four beakers as follows:
This rampant road-building may be a major contributor to deforestation and habitat loss in one of planet Earth's most biologically diverse regions.
despite the fact the sun was shining and not a drop of rain could be found within a few hundred miles.
></p><p>Just two decades after first spotting planets orbiting a star other than our own sun astronomers have notched a big milestone the 1000th alien planet.</
That's a lot of progress since 1992 when researchers found the first-ever exoplanets orbiting a spinning neutron star or pulsar.</
<a href=http://www. livescience. com/40672-1000-alien-planets-found-milestone. html target=blank>Alien Planet Count Passes 1000 Worlds
Roman records from 122 B c. indicate a large eruption blocked the sun for several days and caused widespread damage to the town of Catania on the coast.
Magma directly from Earth s mantle layer is being sucked into the space created by the tilting Ionian slab.
This region is awash in fall colors at this time of year the hues are even clear from space!
and sun-bleached terrain but about 70 miles (about 110 kilometers) west of San antonio sits a leaf-peeping paradise:
Hotels motels airports movie theaters hospitals and many more public and private spaces have been affected. What's worse the bugs demonstrate increasing pesticide resistance.
#New Earth Explorer Satellite to Map Global Forests The European space agency hopes to launch a new Earth Explorer satellite in 2020 that will map the extent and composition of the world s forests.
The satellite called BIOMASS will use long range radar to pierce through clouds and collect data from forested regions inaccessible from the ground such as the boreal forests of Russia and the Amazon rain forest.
The BIOMASS satellite will cost roughly $525 million and is the seventh in ESA's fleet of Earth Explorer satellites
of which three are currently in orbit. Follow Laura Poppick on Twitter. Follow us@livescience Facebook & Google+.
or a sun calendar whereas still others think it was a symbol of unity or even that Stonehenge was inspired by a sound illusion.
 That's the same distance as up to six trips from the Earth to the moon and back.
The tallest rocket ever constructed is NASA's massive Saturn V a three-stage booster used to launch American astronauts to the moon in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The towering Saturn V launched from the Kennedy space center in Florida. It stood 363 feet (110 m) high
High above Earth's surface extreme ultraviolet radiation from the sun reacts with air molecules to produce gigantic jets of lightning up to 56 miles (90 kilometers) tall that shoot up to the edge of space.
Living Too large on a Finite Planet (Op-Ed) Jon Hoekstra is chief scientist for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF.
August 20 2013 marks Earth Overshoot day the estimated date when the people On earth have used up the planet's annual supply of renewable natural resources
After that point people are using more than the planet can sustain. It's a one-day reminder of a year-round problem humans are living too large on a finite planet.
You probably have a general sense of why. The human population continues to grow. People are consuming more and more resources.
And we still have only one planet. To appreciate just how large we are living in relation to our finite planet let's look more closely at some numbers.
According to the Global Footprint Network Earth Overshoot day became an issue around 1975. That's when humanity's ecological footprint first exceeded the biocapacity of the planet.
Before that people's ecological footprint measured as the area required to supply the food fish fiber
what the planet could sustain. In 1975 there were about 4. 1 billion people. Today there are more than 7. 3 billion.
People presently use 38 percent of the planet to grow crops and raise livestock (check out Navin Ramankutty's animation of global cropland for a wow visualization).
and least protected habitat types on the planet. Future frontiers of agricultural expansion will most likely be in the tropics as people clear high-biodiversity tropical forests to raise cattle grow soy
Earth Overshoot Day is a reminder that such a high level of demand is already putting a huge ecological strain on our one planet.
How can society start to bend the trend to put the planet on a sustainable trajectory?
That's great for farmers and for the planet because cotton accounts for 24 percent of the world's insecticide market
Protecting Life on a Changing Planet. This article first appeared as Overshoot Day: Living Too large on a Finite Planeton Hoekstra's WWF blog Science Driven.
It was the oesun King LOUIS XIV (1638-1715) a ruler who chose the sun as his emblem
Saint-Simon wrote that someone at Versailles oecould see everyone he needed in the space of an hour something that would have taken much longer in Paris. Inside the palace Spawforth notes that the palace contained about 350 living units varying in size from multi-room
apartments to spaces about the size of an alcove. The size and location of the room a person got depended on their rank and standing with the king.
While the crown prince (known as the dauphin) got a sprawling apartment on the ground floor a servant may have nothing more than a space in an attic or a makeshift room behind a staircase.
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