| Researchers: Thick coat of oil on Gulf sea floor By 2010-09-13T16:10:34ZNEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Researchers say they've found patches of oil believed to be from the BP leak on the Gulf of Mexico sea floor. Some of these are two inches thick.... hosted.ap.org |
NZealand rescuers save 14 whales from stranded pod By 2010-09-25T00:51:12ZWELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Rescuers who battled exhaustion and darkness succeeded in saving 14 pilot whales from a pod of 74 that stranded on a remote New Zealand beach.... hosted.ap.org |
China faces hurdles amid quest for a Nobel Prize By CHI-CHI ZHANG 2010-10-06T15:19:09ZBEIJING (AP) -- It's Nobel season, and China is engaged in an annual bout of hand-wringing: Why can't the country that invented the compass and gunpowder - and that recently rocketed from poverty to global power - win one of the venerated prizes?... hosted.ap.org |
National Briefing | West: California: Solar Plant Advances Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approved a big solar energy plant in the Mojave Deser, making it the fifth such project on public land in the West to win federal authorization. feeds.nytimes.com |
[news] Vertical structure of Antarctic tropospheric ozone depletion events: characteristics and broader implications Ozone depletion events in both polar lower tropospheres are fascinating events. Ozone goes to almost zero near the surface in some of them, with knock-on effects on many other chemicals including mercury deposition, and with a cause apparently associated with enhancements of bromine compounds. The question is: however interesting they are, do they have a wider scale importance?This paper starts ... antarctica.ac.uk |