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(University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science) A paper by University of Miami professor Peter Swart in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examines changes over the past 10 million years in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.

The study is a step in terms of rethinking how geologists interpret variations in the 13C/12C ratio throughout Earth's history.

The Royal Society has today announced the establishment of a new USA/UK scientific forum to be operated jointly with the National Academy of Sciences in the US.

The forum is to be funded by a substantial gift from the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation.

In response to the recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences in their recent review of EPA's Biosolids program, a study has been planned which will measure the emissions released from biosolids land application.

This presentation summarizes the plans for that study and provides information on its objectives, scope and schedule.

(National Academy of Sciences) The intelligence community often monitors global trends in scientific and technological research to identify advances that could affect national security.

While many plant species move to a new location or go extinct as a result of climate change, grasslands clinging to a steep, rocky dale-side in Northern England seem to defy the odds and adapt to long-term changes in temperature and rainfall, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The 13-year experiment involved subjecting 30 small grassland plots to microclimate manipulation.

(Ohio State University) Researchers here now have a picture of a key molecule that lets microbes produce carbon dioxide and methane -- the two greenhouse gases associated with global warming.

The findings relate to organisms called methanogens and are explained in the latest issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

(University of Minnesota) Researchers at the University of Minnesota have discovered a gene that may provide a clue as to why obesity rates increase with age.

The research was published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

(The National Academies) The National Academy of Sciences today announced the election of 72 new members and 18 foreign associates from 9 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

(New York University) Two New York University professors, Helmut Hofer of NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Anthony Movshon, director of the university's Center for Neural Science, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the Washington, DC-based organization announced today.

(DOE/Argonne National Laboratory) George W. Crabtree, a senior scientist and administrator at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences for his excellence in original scientific research.

Membership in the NAS is one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United States. Crabtree will be inducted into the Academy next April during its 146th annual meeting in Washington, D.C.