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Fridge Gas: It's Out Of The Frying Pan Into The Fire
April 2, 1998 Most of the ozone-benign gases now used in refrigeration have an unwelcome side effect because they are greenhouse gases contributing to global warming, a CSIRO scientist ... > full story -
UF Studies Effects Of Weather On The Typical Southern Home
April 2, 1998 University of Florida researchers are closely examining how harsh Southern weather affects the average home, hoping to determine, for example, how to produce roof shingles that last as long as they ... > full story -
Warming Could Flood New York Metro Area In Next Century, Columbia Scientist Reports
March 30, 1998 Global warming will make the New York metropolitan region not only warmer, but wetter as well, according to a new Columbia University ... > full story -
El Niño Not The Driving Force Behind North Pacific Hurricanes
March 27, 1998 El Niño may be responsible for severe weather conditions across North America, but an Ohio State University study has revealed that El Niño weather systems don’t always spawn ... > full story -
Early Oceans Touch Civilization Today
March 25, 1998 Events leading up to a 1980 sinkhole disaster began about 150 million years ago, when the nearly landlocked sea that is now the Gulf of Mexico dried up over and over again, said Gary Byerly, chair of ... > full story -
Seismic Imaging Unearths Detailed Picture Of Earth's Core
March 24, 1998 Using seismic wave data gathered from tens of thousands of earthquakes, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have produced the first ... > full story -
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The Kyoto Protocol -- Greenhouse Gas Emissions Depend On Future Of China
March 19, 1998 China's future energy import needs will dramatically affect the global environment and energy security, says Jon Erickson, assistant professor of economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic ... > full story -
Antarctic Rocks Yield Clues About Global Change
March 12, 1998 Did it melt or not? Antarctic scientists, including a team in UMaine's Institute for Quaternary Studies and Dept. of Geological Sciences, have been debating that question for more than a decade ... > full story -
Global Warming Would Foster Spread Of Dengue Fever Into Some Temperate Regions
March 10, 1998 Scientists using computers to simulate the general circulation of the earth's climate have predicted that rising global temperatures will increase the range of a mosquito that transmits the ... > full story -
Recent El Niños 'Unlikely To Be Caused By Past Warming Trend': CSIRO Scientist
March 10, 1998 The global temperature increases this century are unlikely to be the cause of the spate of El Niño events during the 1990s, according to CSIRO scientist Dr Rob ... > full story -
Prairies Will Be Hit Harder By Global Warming: U of T Researcher
February 23, 1998 Prairie ecosystems in North America will be hit harder than many areas on this continent by the effects of global warming and the damage will become apparent within the next few decades, suggests a ... > full story -
Why Is Antarctica So Cold? Scientists Pursue History Of Antarctic Ice Sheet
February 18, 1998 Departing Punta Arenas, Chile, in mid-February, 26 scientists representing 10 countries will sail aboard the ocean drilling ship JOIDES Resolution to collect core samples from the continental rise ... > full story
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