[Science] Great Barrier Reef declining faster than ever, coral cover could be 5 percent ...

Great Barrier Reef declining faster than ever, coral cover could be 5 percent ...
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/1002/Great-Barrier-Reef-declining-faster-than-ever-coral-cover-could-be-5-percent-in-a-decade
The world's largest coral reef - under threat from Australia's surging coal and gas shipments, climate change and a destructive starfish - is declining faster than ever and coral cover could fall to just 5 percent in the next decade, a study shows.

Ambitious $1 Billion Project Aims to Drill A Hole All the Way to Earth's Mantle
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-10/ambitious-1-billion-project-aims-drill-tiny-hole-all-way-earths-mantle
In three possible ocean locations, the planet's crust may be thin enough for a drill to penetrate all the way through. By Rebecca Boyle Posted 10.02.2012 at 3:46 pm 2 Comments With enough money and enough moxie, scientists operating gigantic ...

Scorching hot Venus found to have intensely cold area
http://dvice.com/archives/2012/10/venus-found-to.php
The terminator of Venus, bisecting its south pole. (Image Credit: ESA/MPS, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany) Venus is sometimes called the Earth's twin because of its similar size and orbital distance from the Sun, but it's more like a backwards, ...

Thousand years of sea rise 'inevitable'
http://www.tgdaily.com/sustainability-features/66567-thousand-years-of-sea-rise-inevitable
Whatever we do, greenhouse gas emissions have alreadytriggered an irreversible warming of Earth that will cause sea levels to rise for more than a thousand years to come, claims a European team.