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The earth's oceans, forests and other ecosystems continue to eat up to half of the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere from human activities, despite the growth of the latter, according to the employees at the University of Colorado and the National oceanic and atmospheric administration research (both - USA).

Gas giant Jupiter is not among the hottest of the planets of the Solar system. However, in a few billion years, the picture could change dramatically, American astrophysicists believe the Nikko Madhusudhan and David Spiegel. Jupiter close to the Sun and heated up to enormous temperatures. However, the Land that time, most likely, will disappear.

NASA is preparing for the landing of a new Curiosity Rover on the surface of the red planet. The operation has to take place on 6 August. Engineers U.S. space Agency have worried during descent and landing of the Rover as a signal from him will come with a 14-minute delay - so much time is required to radio waves to travel from Mars to Earth. If planting is successful, Curiosity will be the sixth unit of NASA landed on the Red planet.

If in the near future we will not come up with an effective system of production and consumption of resources, then we will be on the edge of a precipice.

"When the last tree is uprooted, when the last river will be poisoned, when the last fish is caught, you will realize that money is impossible"

Before the revolution, he served in the Moscow fire brigade someone Stepan. His duty was on duty at the fire-tower and see: you can't see any fire. And if you notice the fire - raise on the watch-tower, signal balls and beat the bell, raising the alarm on the fire brigade.

Those short stroll on our only natural satellite, which was carried out by the astronauts during human lunar expeditions lasted no longer than two to three days. Effects of prolonged exposure lunar conditions on the people still have not been studied in depth, and it is possible that in fact the Moon can be toxic to people.

Researchers from the University of Bristol (UK) reported the discovery of the causes of rapid sea level rise during the two episodes that occurred about 14 600 8 200 years ago.

Tireless space telescope Hubble discovered the fifth moon of Pluto, which was designated as P5, according to NASA. She's just a crumb - diameter P5 is from 15 to 24 kilometers.

The complete disappearance of the Greenland ice sheet will make the island a raising of the sea a mile; now the rate of vertical movement is about three centimeters per year, according to the study, published in the journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences).

2011 will go down in history as the year of extreme climate events, experts believe

Climatic changes on the Earth can not only be gradual. Possible catastrophic shift that will require emergency, including military response.

Southern oscillation and the El-Nino is a global Oceanography atmospheric phenomenon. Being a characteristic feature of the Pacific Ocean, El Nino and La Nina are temperature fluctuations of surface waters in the tropical Eastern Pacific. The names of these phenomena, borrowed from the Spanish locals and introduced into scientific circulation in 1923 by Gilbert Thomas Walker, means "baby" and "baby", respectively. Their impact on climate of the southern hemisphere it is difficult to overestimate. Southern oscillation (atmospheric component of the phenomenon reflects the monthly or seasonal fluctuations in the air pressure difference between the island of Tahiti and Darwin in Australia.

Mohammed Musa Abdulahi woke up Saturday morning sick and lethargic. The day before he fell ill and lay down right in the school building. Abdulahi went to the house and suddenly noticed that on the streets of his village, in the North-Western Cameroon, reigns frightening silence. Roads and yards of Soboma were littered with corpses. People were lying as if he died on the go or in the middle of a conversation with a neighbor. All dead dog, all the cattle, from the trees fell dead birds and insects.