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Microscopic Organism Plays a Big Role in Ocean Carbon Cycling
Apr. 24, 2014 — Scientists have taken a leap forward in understanding the microscopic underpinnings of the ocean carbon cycle by pinpointing a bacterium that appears to play a dominant role in carbon ... full story -
Some Corals Adjusting to Rising Ocean Temperatures
Apr. 24, 2014 — Scientists have revealed how some corals can quickly switch on or off certain genes in order to survive in warmer-than-average tidal waters. To most people, 86-degree Fahrenheit water is pleasant for ... full story -
Ocean Microbes Display Remarkable Genetic Diversity: One Species, a Few Drops of Seawater, Hundreds of Coexisting Subpopulations
Apr. 24, 2014 — The smallest, most abundant marine microbe, Prochlorococcus, is a photosynthetic bacteria species essential to the marine ecosystem. An estimated billion billion billion of the single-cell creatures ... full story -
Genome Yields Insights Into Golden Eagle Vision, Smell
Apr. 24, 2014 — Scientists have sequenced the genome of the golden eagle, providing a bird's-eye view of eagle features that could lead to more effective conservation ... full story -
Carbon Loss from Soil Accelerating Climate Change
Apr. 24, 2014 — New research has found that increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere cause soil microbes to produce more carbon dioxide, accelerating climate change. This research challenges our previous ... full story -
Hydrothermal Vents: How Productive Are the Ore Factories in the Deep Sea?
Apr. 24, 2014 — Hydrothermal vents in the deep sea, the so-called 'black smokers,' are fascinating geological formations. They are home to unique ecosystems, but are also potential suppliers of raw ... full story -
Asteroids Made Easy: 'Patch of Asteroid' Being Built Inside a Satellite
Apr. 24, 2014 — A dozen astronauts have walked on the moon, and several rovers have been piloted on Mars, giving us a good understanding of these off-world environments. But when it comes to asteroids, scientists ... full story -
Two New River Turtle Species Described
Apr. 24, 2014 — The alligator snapping turtle is the largest river turtle in North America, weighing in at up to 200 pounds and living almost a century. Now researchers have discovered that it is not one species -- ... full story -
Citizen Scientists Match Research Tool When Counting Sharks: Dive Guides Monitoring Sharks on Coral Reef at Similar Level to Telemetry
Apr. 23, 2014 — Shark data collected by citizen scientists may be as reliable as data collected using automated tools. Shark populations are declining globally, and scientists lack data to estimate the conservation ... full story -
Drought May Take Toll on Congo Rainforest, NASA Satellites Show
Apr. 23, 2014 — A new analysis of NASA satellite data shows Africa's Congo rainforest, the second-largest tropical rainforest in the world, has undergone a large-scale decline in greenness over the past decade. ... full story -
Rural Microbes Could Boost City Dwellers' Health, Study Finds
Apr. 23, 2014 — The greater prevalence of asthma, allergies and other chronic inflammatory disorders among people of lower socioeconomic status might be due in part to their reduced exposure to the microbes that ... full story -
Conservation Priorities Released for Several Protected Areas Along U.S.-Mexico Border
Apr. 23, 2014 — The CEC releases its conservation assessment for priority conservation areas in a region straddling the United States-Mexico border that includes 11 different protected areas in the states of Texas, ... full story -
Increased Infrastructure Required for Effective Oil Spill Response in U.S. Arctic
Apr. 23, 2014 — A changing climate is increasing the accessibility of U.S. Arctic waters to commercial activities such as shipping, oil and gas development, and tourism, raising concern about the risk of oil spills. ... full story -
Pollutants from Coal-Burning Stoves Strongly Associated With Miscarriages in Mongolia
Apr. 23, 2014 — Burning coal for domestic heating may contribute to early fetal death according to a new study that took place in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia -- the coldest capital city in the world. Researchers report ... full story -
Picky Male Black Widow Spiders Prefer Well-Fed Virgins
Apr. 23, 2014 — New research shows that male black widow spiders prefer their female mates to be well-fed virgins -- a rare example of mate preference by male spiders. The study found they can tell whether a ... full story -
Scientists Identify Source of Mysterious Sound in the Southern Ocean
Apr. 23, 2014 — Scientists have conclusive evidence that the source of a unique rhythmic sound, recorded for decades in the Southern Ocean and called the 'bio-duck,' is the Antarctic minke whale ... full story -
Odds of Storm Waters Overflowing Manhattan Seawall Up 20-Fold
Apr. 23, 2014 — Maximum water levels in New York harbor during major storms have risen by nearly two and a half feet since the mid-1800s, making the chances of water overtopping the Manhattan seawall now at least 20 ... full story -
Predicting Drift of Floating Pumice 'Islands' Can Benefit Shipping
Apr. 23, 2014 — A new technique will aid in predicting the dispersal and drift patterns of large floating ‘islands’ of pumice created by volcanic eruptions at sea. Known as pumice rafts, these large mobile ... full story -
Late Freeze Kills Fruit Buds, Study Shows
Apr. 23, 2014 — The recent late cold snap could mean less fruit this year. A horticulturist explains how to check if your fruit buds survived the late burst of cold weather. Fruit buds are usually damaged when it is ... full story -
Fiction Prepares Us for a World Changed by Global Warming
Apr. 23, 2014 — Climate fiction, or simply cli-fi, is a newly coined term for novels and films which focus on the consequences of global warming. New research shows how these fictions serve as a mental laboratory ... full story
- Microscopic organism plays a big role in ocean carbon cycling
- Some corals adjusting to rising ocean temperatures
- Ocean microbes display remarkable genetic diversity: One species, a few drops of seawater, hundreds of coexisting subpopulations
- Genome yields insights into golden eagle vision, smell
- Carbon loss from soil accelerating climate change
- Hydrothermal vents: How productive are the ore factories in the deep sea?
- Asteroids made easy: 'Patch of asteroid' being built inside a satellite
- Two new river turtle species described
- Citizen scientists match research tool when counting sharks: Dive guides monitoring sharks on coral reef at similar level to telemetry
- Drought may take toll on Congo rainforest, NASA satellites show
- Rural microbes could boost city dwellers' health, study finds
- Conservation priorities released for several protected areas along U.S.-Mexico border
- Increased infrastructure required for effective oil spill response in U.S. Arctic
- Pollutants from coal-burning stoves strongly associated with miscarriages in Mongolia
- Picky male black widow spiders prefer well-fed virgins
- Scientists identify source of mysterious sound in the Southern Ocean
- Odds of storm waters overflowing Manhattan seawall up 20-fold
- Predicting drift of floating pumice 'islands' can benefit shipping
- Late freeze kills fruit buds, study shows
- Fiction prepares us for a world changed by global warming
- How to avoid water wars between 'fracking' industry and residents
- New discovery helps solve mystery source of African lava
- Fires in the Primorsky Province of Russia
- How Australia's Outback got one million feral camels: Camels culled on large scale
- Wind turbine movement can generate lightning
- Getting at the root of mountain pine beetle's rapid habitat expansion
- Checking up on crude oil in the ground: Nanoreporters tell 'sour' oil from 'sweet'
- Taxonomic study of green algae (chlorophyta) in Langkawi, Malaysia
- Surface modification of titanium dioxide for photocatalytic degradation of hazardous pollutants under ordinary visible light
- Wildlife response to climate change is likely underestimated, experts warn
- Ask yourself: Will you help the environment?
- UV-radiation data to help ecological research
- New design for mobile phone masts could cut carbon emissions
- Cloaked DNA nanodevices survive pilot mission
- Cow manure harbors diverse new antibiotic resistance genes
- UV-radiation data to help ecological research
- Higher solar-cell efficiency achieved with zinc-oxide coating
- European Eel Expedition 2014: First phase successfully completed
- Today's Antarctic region once as hot as California, Florida
- Earth Week: Bark beetles change Rocky Mountain stream flows, affect water quality
- Krypton used to accurately date ancient Antarctic ice
- Improving understanding of valley-wide stream chemistry
- New technology for greenhouses developed
- Taking the pulse of mountain formation in the Andes
- Lack of breeding threatens blue-footed boobies' survival
- Centuries of sand still available at Mississippi Delta
- Birthplace of the domesticated chili pepper identified in Mexico
- More questions than answers as mystery of domestication deepens
- New material coating technology mimics nature's lotus effect
- Researchers rethink 'natural' habitat for wildlife
- No-till soil organic carbon sequestration rates published
- Future heat waves pose risk for population of Greater London
- 'Dressed' laser aimed at clouds may be key to inducing rain, lightning
- Plants with dormant seeds give rise to more species
- Ancient DNA: Barnyard chickens living just a few hundred years ago looked far different from today's chickens
- Impact glass from asteroids and comets stores biodata for millions of years
- Is UK shale gas extraction posing a risk to public health?
- Vitamin B3 might have been made in space, delivered to Earth by meteorites
- Five anthropogenic factors that will radically alter northern forests in 50 years
- Findings shed light on seagrass needs
- More, bigger wildfires burning western US over last 30 years
- Alternative identification methods for threatened species urged
- Fewer sources for self-cleaning air: Study overturns existing knowledge on nitrous acid, HONO
- There's something ancient in the icebox: Three-million-year-old landscape beneath Greenland Ice Sheet
- Saving the lesser prairie chicken: What landowners should know
- New orchid: 'Lophiaris silverarum' is known to grow only in central Panama
- Food shortages could be most critical world issue by mid-century
- Surprising material could play huge role in saving energy: Tin selenide is best at converting waste heat to electricity
- East African honeybees safe from invasive pests ... for now
- Recommendations on climate change mitigation
- After hurricane Sandy, residents support government mitigation, but not footing the bill
- Atom probe assisted dating of oldest piece of Earth
- Biologists help solve fungal mysteries, inform studies on climate change
- Methane climate change risk suggested by proof of redox cycling of humic substances
- Study shows lasting effects of drought in rainy Eastern U.S.
- The story of animal domestication retold: Scientists now think wild animals interbred with domesticated ones until quite recently
- Genetic study tackles mystery of slow plant domestications
- Suicide epidemic among India's 'marginalized' farmers
- Declining catch rates in Caribbean Nicaragua green turtle fishery may be result of overfishing
- Earliest ancestor of land herbivores discovered: 300-million-year-old predator showed way to modern terrestrial ecosystem
- Chimpanzees prefer firm, stable beds
- Residing in high altitude military facilities protects service members from obesity
- Mars: Meteorites yield clues to Red Planet's early atmosphere
- Air temperature influenced African glacial movements at height of last ice age
- Crucial new information about how the ice ages came about
- NutNet: New model for global research
- Significant baseline levels of arsenic found in soil throughout Ohio are due to natural processes
- Shade grown coffee shrinking as a proportion of global coffee production
- A greener source of polyester: Cork trees
- DNA looping damage tied to HPV cancer, researcher discovers
- Researchers question emergency water treatment guidelines
- Floating nuclear plants could ride out tsunamis: New design for enhanced safety, easier siting and centralized construction
- Irrigated agriculture: precious habitat for the long-billed curlew
- Ant colonies help evacuees in disaster zones
- Researchers propose network-based evaluation tool to assess relief operations feasibility
- Relieving electric vehicle range anxiety with improved batteries
- Diverse gene pool critical for tigers' survival, say experts
- EU must take urgent action on invasive species, experts urge
- Environmentally compatible organic solar cells in the future
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