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Boston's Leaky Pipes Release High Levels of Heat-Trapping Methane
Jan. 23, 2015 — A research team estimates that each year about 15 billion cubic feet of natural gas, worth some $90 million, escapes the Boston region's delivery system. The findings have implications for other ... full story -
Calculating the Future of Solar-Fuel Refineries
Jan. 23, 2015 — A team of engineers has developed a new tool to help engineers better gauge the overall yield, efficiency and costs associated with scaling solar-fuel production processes up into large-scale ... full story -
New Technique Helps Probe Performance of Organic Solar Cell Materials
Jan. 23, 2015 — Researchers have developed a technique for determining the role that a material's structure has on the efficiency of organic solar cells, which are candidates for low-cost, next generation solar ... full story -
New Technique for Producing Cheaper Solar Energy Suggested by Research
Jan. 23, 2015 — Pioneering new research could pave the way for solar energy to be converted into household electricity more cheaply than ever before. The global PV market has experienced rapid growth in recent years ... full story -
Alamo Impact Crater: New Study Could Double Its Size
Jan. 23, 2015 — Carbonate rock deposits found within the mountain ranges of south-central Nevada, USA, record evidence of a catastrophic impact event known as the Alamo impact. This event occurred roughly 382 ... full story -
Climate Affects Development of Human Speech
Jan. 23, 2015 — A correlation between climate and the evolution of language has been uncovered by researchers. To find a relationship between the climate and the evolution of language, one needs to discover an ... full story -
Warming Seas Decrease Sea Turtle Basking
Jan. 23, 2015 — Green sea turtles may stop basking on beaches around the world within a century due to rising sea temperatures, a new study suggests. Basking helps the turtles regulate body temperature and may aid ... full story -
Ocean Could Hold Key to Predicting Recurring Extreme Winters
Jan. 23, 2015 — New reserch may help to predict extreme winters across Europe by identifying the set of environmental conditions that are associated with pairs of severe winters across consecutive years. Pairs of ... full story -
Bad Reputation of Crows Demystified
Jan. 23, 2015 — In literature, crows and ravens are a bad omen and are associated with witches. Most people believe they steal, eat other birds' eggs and reduce the populations of other birds. But a new study, ... full story -
Arctic Ice Cap Slides Into the Ocean
Jan. 23, 2015 — Satellite images have revealed that a remote Arctic ice cap has thinned by more than 50 metres since 2012 -- about one sixth of its original thickness -- and that it is now flowing 25 times faster. ... full story -
Brazil's Soy Moratorium Still Needed to Preserve Amazon
Jan. 23, 2015 — In a new study to evaluate the Brazilian Soy Moratorium, researchers across the U.S. and Brazil show that the moratorium helped to drastically reduce the amount of deforestation linked to soy ... full story -
Scientists Search for New Ways to Deal With U. S. Uranium Ore Processing Legacy
Jan. 22, 2015 — Researchers are trying to find out why uranium persists in groundwater at former uranium ore processing sites despite remediation of contaminated surface materials two decades ago. They think buried ... full story -
Surprising Insights Into Effects of Wood Fuel Burning
Jan. 22, 2015 — The harvesting of wood to meet the heating and cooking demands for billions of people worldwide has less of an impact on global forest loss and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions than previously ... full story -
New Research Re-Creates Planet Formation, Super-Earths and Giant Planets in the Laboratory
Jan. 22, 2015 — New laser-driven compression experiments reproduce the conditions deep inside exotic super-Earths and giant planet cores, and the conditions during the violent birth of Earth-like planets, ... full story -
Going With the Flow: Is River Basin Management Misguided?
Jan. 22, 2015 — Millions of Americans live in flood-prone areas. In 2012 alone, the cost of direct flood damage hit nearly half a billion dollars. However, because the factors contributing to flood risk are not ... full story -
When It Comes to Variations in Crop Yield, Climate Has a Big Say
Jan. 22, 2015 — What impact will future climate change have on food supply? That depends in part on the extent to which variations in crop yield are attributable to variations in climate. A new report has found that ... full story -
Promising Drug Candidate Protects Against Radiation Exposure from Nuclear Fallout
Jan. 22, 2015 — A drug candidate called DBIBB that increases the survival of mice suffering from radiation syndrome, even when treatment started three days after radiation exposure, has been identified by ... full story -
As Trees Are Cut and Climates Shift, Can the Animals of Borneo Be Saved?
Jan. 22, 2015 — As the third-largest island in the world and the largest island in Asia, Borneo stands out as a hotspot for biodiversity, and there is no question that Borneo's many rare species are in trouble. ... full story -
Using Less Fish to Test Chemicals Safety
Jan. 22, 2015 — A new strategy has been proposed on how to replace, reduce and refine the use of fish in testing of chemicals’ effect on flora and fauna in water (aquatic toxicity) and chemicals’ uptake and ... full story -
California's Policies Can Significantly Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions Through 2030
Jan. 22, 2015 — A new model of the impact of California’s existing and proposed policies on its greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals suggests that the state is on track to meet 2020 goals, and could achieve ... full story
- Boston's leaky pipes release high levels of heat-trapping methane
- Calculating the future of solar-fuel refineries
- New technique helps probe performance of organic solar cell materials
- New technique for producing cheaper solar energy suggested by research
- Alamo impact crater: New study could double its size
- Climate affects development of human speech
- Warming seas decrease sea turtle basking
- Ocean could hold key to predicting recurring extreme winters
- Bad reputation of crows demystified
- Arctic ice cap slides into the ocean
- Brazil's soy moratorium still needed to preserve Amazon
- Scientists search for new ways to deal with U. S. uranium ore processing legacy
- Surprising insights into effects of wood fuel burning
- New research re-creates planet formation, super-Earths and giant planets in the laboratory
- Going with the flow: Is river basin management misguided?
- When it comes to variations in crop yield, climate has a big say
- Promising drug candidate protects against radiation exposure from nuclear fallout
- As trees are cut and climates shift, can the animals of Borneo be saved?
- Using less fish to test chemicals safety
- California's policies can significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions through 2030
- Antibiotics, bacteria, resistance genes found in dust from feedlots
- Soils could keep contaminants in wastewater from reaching groundwater, streams
- Study projects unprecedented loss of corals in Great Barrier Reef due to warming
- Small drop in sea level had big impact on southern Great Barrier Reef
- Snack attack: Bears munch on ants and help plants grow
- Doubt cast on global firestorm generated by dino-killing asteroid
- Fossils survive volcanic eruption to tell us about the origin of the Canary Islands
- Zolushka, (the russian translation for Cinderella), the tiger, rescued and released back into the wild
- Warmer, drier climate altering forests throughout California
- Drillers help make new Antarctic discoveries
- Synthetic amino acid enables safe, new biotechnology solutions to global problems
- Animal-to-human transmission of Ebola virus appears tied to increasing human population density in forested regions
- Two lakes beneath the ice in Greenland, gone within weeks
- Next-generation sequencing offers insight into how species adapt to climate change
- Death of a dynamo: A hard drive from space
- Researchers introduce macrosystems approach to study stream ecology
- Ecocentricity: How do consumers decide what makes a product 'green'?
- Sequestration on shaky ground: Natural impediment to long-term sequestration of carbon dioxide
- Climate change threatens 30 years of sea turtle conservation success
- Decorative and flexible solar panels become part of interior design and the appearance of objects
- Endangered chimpanzees may experience drastic habitat loss within 5 years
- Simple soil mixture reverses toxic stormwater effects
- Greenland Ice: The warmer it gets the faster it melts
- Biggest fish in the ocean receives international protection
- Warming climate likely will change the composition of northern forests, study shows
- Vegetation can help prevent soil erosion due to wind
- Climate change does not bode well for picky eaters
- Drugs from dirt: Scientists develop first global roadmap for drug discovery
- Pioneer study examines declining coral reef health due to pesticides/sea surface temperatures
- Giant atmospheric rivers add mass to Antarctica's ice sheet
- Ocean floor dust gives new insight into supernovae
- First public lighting system that runs on solar and wind energy
- Paleontologist names a carnivorous reptile that preceded dinosaurs
- Predators, parasites, pests and the paradox of biological control
- Time to rethink the inner-city asthma epidemic?
- Making waves with lasers could enhance solar cell efficiency
- New decontamination tool expected to help Fukushima cleanup
- Fossil ankles indicate Earth's earliest primates lived in trees
- Geophysicists find the crusty culprits behind sudden tectonic plate movements
- Voyage from Earth's crust to its mantle and back again
- Melting glaciers have big carbon impact
- How planetary building blocks evolved from porous to hard objects
- Preserved fossil represents oldest record of parental care in group of prehistoric reptiles
- How the yellowhammer bird became a Kiwi: From hero to villain in 15 years
- NASA, NOAA find 2014 warmest year in modern record
- NASA satellite set to get the dirt on Earth's soil moisture
- NASA mountaintop sensor finds high methane over Los Angeles
- Peat fire emissions may shed light on climate change
- Antiquity of dairying on Emerald Isle revealed
- Finding farmland: New maps offer a clearer view of global agriculture
- Heart arrhythmias detected in deep-diving marine mammals
- Volcanic eruption on Cape Verde Island
- Nanoparticles for clean drinking water
- Perovskites provide big boost to silicon solar cells
- Nearly half the systems crucial to stability of planet compromised
- Wildlife loss in the global ocean not as dire as on land
- Tiny plant fossils a window into Earth's landscape millions of years ago
- Roller coaster geese: Insights into high altitude bird flight physiology and biomechanics
- New planetary dashboard shows 'great acceleration' in human activity since 1950
- In the mood to trade? Weather may influence institutional investors' stock decisions
- Environment, not genes, dictates human immune variation, study finds
- For sea turtles, there's no place like magnetic home
- New sulfate-breathing species discovered beneath ocean crust: Third of Earth's biomass in largely uncharted environment
- Out of the pouch: Ancient DNA extracted from extinct giant kangaroos
- Did the Anthropocene begin with the nuclear age?
- Entrepreneurs succeed in transforming used PET plastic bottles into mineral paper
- Predicting coral reef futures under climate change
- Correcting estimates of sea level rise
- Renewable resources reach their limits
- Rainfall can release aerosols, study finds
- Chemical analysis of ancient rocks reveals earliest record yet of Earth's atmosphere: Isotopic memory of atmospheric persistence
- Climate, friends influence young corals choice of real estate
- Levels of 'Molly,' aka ecstasy, spike in rivers near music festival
- New contaminants found in oil, gas wastewater
- Urban stormwater management: Permeable pavements to reduce run-off from parking lots
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