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Lattice Semiconductor Inc. on Thursday said it will eliminate 64 jobs from its global work force, an 8 percent cut. (LSCC)

Warm ocean temperatures predicted to persist through October in the Caribbean and the central Gulf of Mexico could mean the loss of corals across those regions, U.S. scientists warned Wednesday.

What humanity does has important consequences, so we must manage our global life-support systemWe live in epoch-making times. I mean this literally, rather than as a tool to dramatise the global economic crisis or latest political scandal. An epoch describes a geological time period. The end of the last glaciation, some 11,000 years ago, saw the transition from the cool Pleistocene to the warmer Holocene. This relatively stable epoch saw humans turn to agriculture and our population rise considerably. Now geologists, ecologists and climate scientists, myself included, are reporting we have entered a new and much less stable geological epoch: the Anthropocene.Just as changes to the Earth's orbit, volcanic eruptions and asteroid impacts in the distant past have set the world on radically new courses, humanity itself has now become a collective force of nature, with far-reaching consequences. But what does this startling discovery - that humanity has become a globally significant geophys

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A Canadian billionaire who turned a passion for acrobatics and circus acts into a global entertainment empire will look for inspiration in space in September when he becomes the latest 'space tourist.'

Walter Energy Inc. reported a significant drop in second-quarter revenue and profit due to the global decline in demand for coal. (WLT)

One factor in predicting climate change, scientists say, is low-level cloud cover, the loss of which may accelerate warming.

One factor in predicting climate change, scientists say, is low-level cloud cover, the loss of which may accelerate warming

The uncertain effect of feedback between climate and clouds is one of the largest obstacles to producing more confident projections of global climate. Clement et al. (p. 460) examined how . []

Luminescent Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of computational lithography solutions to the global semiconductor industry, has broadened its portfolio by adding the industry's firs...

Ammonia is a trace gas of considerable importance for atmospheric chemistry, aerosol particle formation, and fertilization of the biosphere. Its global emissions have grown to more than twice their preindustrial . []