Landscape Changes Make Regional Climate Run Hot and Cold

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Researchers are finding that human influences on land use such as agriculture, deforestation, and development can impact climate. In Colorado, for example, researchers found that increased lawn irrigation and corn growing contributed to an average two degree temperature drop in July. Conversely in the Amazon rainforest, researchers found a correlation between deforestation and an increase in hot dryness.

Environmental aspects, Human beings, Climatic changes, Climate change, Humans, Land use

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Beefed-Up NIH Center Probes Unconventional Therapies

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Congress included $50 million for alternative medicine research in its fall 1998 budget increase for the National Institutes of Health and directed NIH to make its Office of Alternative Medicine a full-fledged center. Supporters of the move cite the wide-spread use of alternative therapies. A recent study indicated that 42% of Americans used them in 1997.

Research, Finance, Science and technology policy, Alternative medicine, United States. Congress, United States. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Federal aid to medical research, Medical research assistance

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Survival Test for Geophysics Center

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The Kyrgyz Broadband Seismic Network (KNET) provides valuable data for detecting and discriminating nuclear tests and earthquakes, but it faces an uncertain future. Funding from the US helped establish KNET, and a team of US geophysicists is working to maintain US support of KNET and other geophysical stations in Kyrgyzstan.

Kyrgyzstan, United States foreign relations, Geophysical observatories, Kyrgyzstani foreign relations, Seismological stations

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