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Cambridge, Mass. July 10, 2009 - Organic geochemist Ann Pearson, who brings genomics, isotope geochemistry, and biochemistry to bear on the study of the Earth's history, has been named professor of earth and planetary sciences in Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1, 2009.

BERKELEY — Increases in mysterious underground tremors observed in several active earthquake fault zones around the world could signal a build-up of stress at locked segments of the faults and

Who lived in Bloomsbury in the 19th century? A packed room of academics and enthusiasts learned all about the people of Bloomsbury in the second conference of the Bloomsbury Project in June 2009.

July 02, 2009 — Virginia Key — As the nation celebrates its birth on the 4th of July, Research Assistant Professor Diego Lirman and fellow Caribbean coral reef nursery scientists will be celebrating as well.

July 02, 2009 — Virginia Key — Three-years of in situ measurements, combined with a long-track satellite data to createlong-term index of Agulhas Current transport The U.S.

If you can't stand the heat.

Researchers at the University of Sheffield have uncovered what determines how fast plants grow, and how evolution has adjusted this speed limit over millions of years, as the levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) has changed. Dr Peter Franks and Professor David Beerling from the University´s Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, have shed light on why some plants grow much faster than others under the same conditions.

Randy Irmis of the University of Utah and Jere Lipps of UC Berkeley excavate fossils from the bone bed at Sharktooth Hill in 2008.

Delivered by Holger Staude Commencement June 2, 2009 Princeton University Class of 2009 Thank you, President Tilghman, for giving me the opportunity to speak to my classmates today.

PA 125/09 The recession will likely signal the end for many of Britain's smaller buy-to-let landlords, and poses a grim threat to city-centre new build properties, warn experts at The University of Nottingham.

Cambridge, Mass. May 7, 2009 - Theoretical geophysicist Jerry X. Mitrovica, whose studies of the Earth's structure and evolution have important implications for our understanding of climate and sea-level changes throughout Earth's history, has been named professor of geophysics in Harvard University's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, effective July 1, 2009.

Princeton geoscientist Gerta Keller and a research team have compiled new evidence disproving a popular theory that an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago.

Vienna, Austria - Earth-bound tornadoes are puny compared to "space tornadoes," which span a volume as large as Earth and produce electrical currents exceeding 100,000 amperes, according to new observations by a suite of five NASA space probes.

The lost world of British hunter-gatherers is brought to life in a new book published this week.

UCOpera (UCO) relishes a challenge. Their current production of Ernest Bloch's Macbeth at the UCL Bloomsbury Theatre ' the British première of the opera ' is no exception.

BERKELEY — A newly laid, 32-mile underwater cable finally links the state's only seafloor seismic station with the University of California, Berkeley's seismic network, merging real-time data f

MAGIC facilities are set to make Imperial world leader in isotope geochemistry The Department of Earth Science and Engineering opens new £2million MAGIC laboratory %0A " Tuesday 17 March 2009 By Coli

When we think of recycling we usually think of the glass jars, packaging and newspapers that fill household recycling bins.

25 February 2009 British butterfly offers hope for threatened species Most wild species are expected to colonise northwards as the climate warms, but how are they going to get there when so many landscapes are covered in wheat fields and other crops?

Office of News and Information Johns Hopkins University 901 South Bond Street, Suite 540 Baltimore, Maryland 21231 Phone: 443-287-9960 Fax: 443-287-9920 February 4, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JOHNS HOPKINS: Lisa De Nike Lde [a] jhu (p) edu , 443-287-9960 AMER. GEOPHYSICAL UNION: Maria-José Viñas mjvinas [a] agu (p) org , 202-777-7530 Increasing greenhouse gases could delay, or even postpone indefinitely the recovery of stratospheric ozone in some regions of the Earth, a Johns Hopkins earth scientist suggests.