Science and Nature

Amazon destruction accelerating By Steve Kingstone BBC News, The Amazon rainforest is being destroyed at near record levels, according to new figures released by the Brazilian government . The environment ministry said 26,000 sq km of forest were chopped...

These are two interesting websites about dolphins: http://www.southwest.com.au/~kirbyhs/dolphinsa.html http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/dolphindefender/index.html# (plus a vid.)

Dolphins offered mobile solution Dusky dolphins living off the coast of Cape Town are about to be issued with mobile phone technology. It will not be handsets though and, despite their sophisticated ability to communicate, they will not be chatting or...

Ozone hits record low in 2005 Quirin Schiermeier Chilly Arctic winters are sapping our atmospheric protection A combination of climate change and pollution is chewing through Europe's ozone, researchers say. They have announced that the protective layer...

Limit portions of farm-raised salmon, experts say Alison McCook NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People should avoid eating too much farm-raised salmon, which contains significantly more of the chemical dioxin than is found in fish caught in the wild, new...

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Britain faces big chill as ocean current slows Jonathan Leake, Science Editor CLIMATE change researchers have detected the first signs of a slowdown in the Gulf Stream the mighty ocean current that keeps Britain and Europe from freezing. They have found...

Global dimming is a gradual reduction in the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface since the 1950s. The effect varies by location but globally is of the order of a 5% reduction over the three decades 1960-1990. This cooling effect may have led...

Soaring global warming 'can't be ruled out' 19:03 26 January 2005 · NewScientist.com news service Jenny Hogan The Earth may be much more sensitive to global warming than previously thought, according to the first results from a massive distributed-computing...