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Cooled Coal Emissions Would Clean Air and Lower Health and Climate-Change Costs
August 27, 2012 — Refrigerating coal-plant emissions would reduce levels of dangerous chemicals that pour into the air -- including carbon dioxide by more than 90 percent -- at a cost of 25 percent efficiency, ... > full story -
New Insights Into Salt Transport in the Kidney
August 23, 2012 — Sodium chloride, better known as salt, is vital for the organism, and the kidneys play a crucial role in the regulation of sodium balance. However, the underlying mechanisms of sodium balance are not ... > full story -
Global Warming Causes More Extreme Shifts of the Southern Hemisphere's Largest Rain Band, Study Suggests
August 16, 2012 — South Pacific countries will experience more extreme floods and droughts, in response to increasing greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new ... > full story -
Marine Research in the Brazilian Rain Forest: Slash and Burn Practice for Centuries as Source of Stable Carbon Compounds in the Oceans
August 13, 2012 — Until recent decades the Atlantic Rainforest covered a large area of today’s Brazil from Amazonas to present-day Argentina. In the 1970s, after years of deforestation, this rain forest was ... > full story -
New Light Shed on Important Metabolite in Bacteria
August 13, 2012 — Scientists have collected the first precise data ever on the function of a transport protein for formate – an important metabolite in bacteria. The findings could potentially lead to the ... > full story -
New Atmospheric Compound Tied to Climate Change, Human Health
August 8, 2012 — Scientists have discovered a surprising new chemical compound in Earth's atmosphere that reacts with sulfur dioxide to form sulfuric acid, which is known to have significant impacts on climate and ... > full story -
Girls With Eating Disorders Regain Healthy Fatty Acid Levels When Their Weight Normalizes
July 17, 2012 — A study of teenage girls with eating disorders has shown that reduced essential fatty acid levels returned to normal once the girls increased their weight to a healthy ... > full story -
Gas from Pollutants, Forest Fires at Potentially Toxic Levels
July 16, 2012 — Forest fires and emission of air pollutants, which include fumes from vehicles running on diesel and slow burning of coal and charcoal, release isocyanic acid in the troposphere. In 2011, scientists ... > full story -
Rising Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere Also Speeds Carbon Loss from Forest Soils
July 10, 2012 — Elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide accelerate carbon cycling and soil carbon loss in forests, biologists have found. The new evidence supports an emerging view that although forests remove ... > full story -
Acid-Wielding Worms Drill Through Bones at the Bottom of the Sea
July 2, 2012 — Tiny "bone-devouring worms," known to both eat and inhabit dead whale skeletons and other bones on the sea floor, have a unique ability to release bone-melting acid, scientists at have recently ... > full story
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