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Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 08:13:18 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Global Warming Affects World's Largest Freshwater Lake

Global Warming Affects World's Largest Freshwater Lake

Photo of Shaman Rock on Russia's Lake Baikal, the world's largest freshwater lake.

Russian and American scientists have discovered that the rising temperature of the world's largest lake, located in frigid Siberia, shows that this region is responding strongly to global warming.

Drawing on 60 years of long-term studies of Russia's Lake Baikal, Stephanie Hampton, an ecologist and deputy director of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) in Santa Barbara, Calif., and Marianne Moore, a biologist at Wellesley College in Wellesley, ...

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Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 11:12:24 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Astronomers Discover New Type of Pulsating White Dwarf Star

Astronomers Discover New Type of Pulsating White Dwarf Star

Image showing light output for pulsating carbon white dwarf star.

University of Texas at Austin astronomers Michael H. Montgomery and Kurtis A. Williams, along with graduate student Steven DeGennaro, have predicted and confirmed the existence of a new type of variable star, with the help of the 2.1-meter Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory. The discovery is announced in today's issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters.

This research was funded by the National Science Foundation and the Delaware Asteroseismic Research ...

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