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Mammoth and Mastodon Behavior Was Less Roam, More Stay at Home
July 21, 2014 — Their scruffy beards weren't ironic, but there are reasons mammoths and mastodons could have been the hipsters of the Ice Age. According to new research, the famously fuzzy relatives of ... full story -
Real Price of Steak: Comparing Environmental Costs of Livestock-Based Foods
July 21, 2014 — New research reveals the comparative environmental costs of livestock-based foods. While we are told that eating beef is bad for the environment, do we know its real cost? Are the other animal or ... full story -
Mammals Metabolize Some Pesticides to Limit Their Biomagnification
July 21, 2014 — The concentrations of many historically used, and now widely banned, pesticides and other toxic chemicals -- called legacy contaminants -- can become magnified in an animal that eats contaminated ... full story -
Insights Into Birds' Migration Routes
July 21, 2014 — By tracking hybrids between songbird species, investigators have found that migration routes are under genetic control and could be preventing interbreeding. The research was conducted using ... full story -
Replacing Coal, Oil With Natural Gas Will Not Help Fight Global Warming, Expert Argues
July 21, 2014 — Both shale gas and conventional natural gas have a larger greenhouse gas footprint than do coal or oil, especially for the primary uses of residential and commercial heating. "While emissions of ... full story -
A Noble Gas Cage: New Material Traps Gases from Nuclear Fuel Better and Uses Less Energy Than Currently Available Options
July 20, 2014 — A new material called CC3 effectively traps xenon, krypton, and radon. These gases are used in industries such as lighting or medicine and, in the case of radon, one that can be hazardous when it ... full story -
Mixing It Up: Study Provides New Insight Into Southern Ocean Behavior
July 20, 2014 — Turbulent mixing in the deep waters of the Southern Ocean, which has a profound effect on global ocean circulation and climate, varies with the strength of surface eddies -- the ocean equivalent of ... full story -
Oceans Vital for Possibility for Alien Life
July 20, 2014 — Researchers have made an important step in the race to discover whether other planets could develop and sustain life. New research shows the vital role of oceans in moderating climate on Earth-like ... full story -
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2: Data to Lead Scientists Forward Into the Past
July 20, 2014 — NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, which launched on July 2, will soon be providing about 100,000 high-quality measurements each day of carbon dioxide concentrations from around the globe. ... full story -
A 10-Year Endeavor: NASA's Aura and Climate Change
July 18, 2014 — Celebrating its 10th anniversary this week, NASA's Aura satellite and its four onboard instruments measure some of the climate agents in the atmosphere, including greenhouse gases, clouds and ... full story -
Ten-Year Endeavor: NASA's Aura Tracks Pollutants
July 18, 2014 — NASA's Aura satellite, celebrating its 10th anniversary on July 15, has provided vital data about the cause, concentrations and impact of major air pollutants. With instruments providing key ... full story -
Earth-Like Soils on Mars? Ancient Fossilized Soils Potentially Found Deep Inside Impact Crater Suggest Microbial Life
July 17, 2014 — Soil deep in a crater dating to some 3.7 billion years ago contains evidence that Mars was once much warmer and wetter, says a geologist based on images and data captured by the rover ... full story -
Are Ants the Answer to Carbon Dioxide Sequestration?
July 16, 2014 — A 25-year-long study provides the first quantitative measurement of in situ calcium-magnesium silicate mineral dissolution by ants, termites, tree roots, and bare ground. This study reveals that ants ... full story -
Climate-Cooling Arctic Lakes Soak Up Greenhouse Gases, Study Shows
July 16, 2014 — Arctic thermokarst lakes stabilize climate change by storing more greenhouse gases than they emit into the atmosphere, a new study shows. Found in the Arctic and cold mountain regions, thermokarst ... full story -
Dispersant from Deepwater Horizon Spill Found to Persist in the Environment
July 16, 2014 — Dispersant compound DOSS, which decreases the size of oil droplets and hampers the formation of large oil slicks, remains associated with oil and can persist in the environment for up to four years, ... full story -
Efficient Structures Help Build a Sustainable Future
July 16, 2014 — Researchers have found that the selection of steel cable structural system for long spans has considerably less environmental impact than a steel truss system to achieve the same structural ... full story -
Health Risks Posed by 'Third Hand' Tobacco Smoke
July 16, 2014 — The potential cancer risk in non-smokers -- particularly young children -- of tobacco smoke gases and particles deposited to surfaces and dust in the home has been demonstrated by researchers. Until ... full story -
NOAA's GOES-R Satellite Magnetometer Ready for Spacecraft Integration
July 15, 2014 — The Magnetometer instrument that will fly on NOAA's GOES-R satellite when it is launched in early 2016 has completed the development and testing phase and is ready to be integrated with the ... full story -
Experts Voice Concerns Over Arsenic in Rice
July 15, 2014 — Inorganic arsenic in rice and rice-based foods poses health concerns in infants and young children, and steps should be taken to minimize exposure, according to experts. The inorganic arsenic levels ... full story -
Deep Within Spinach Leaves, Vibrations Enhance Efficiency of Photosynthesis
July 13, 2014 — Biophysics researchers have used short pulses of light to peer into the mechanics of photosynthesis and illuminate the role that molecule vibrations play in the energy conversion process that powers ... full story
- Mammoth and mastodon behavior was less roam, more stay at home
- Real price of steak: Comparing environmental costs of livestock-based foods
- Mammals metabolize some pesticides to limit their biomagnification
- Insights into birds' migration routes
- Replacing coal, oil with natural gas will not help fight global warming, expert argues
- A noble gas cage: New material traps gases from nuclear fuel better and uses less energy than currently available options
- Mixing it up: Study provides new insight into Southern Ocean behavior
- Oceans vital for possibility for alien life
- NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2: Data to lead scientists forward into the past
- Are ants the answer to carbon dioxide sequestration?
- Climate-cooling Arctic lakes soak up greenhouse gases, study shows
- Dispersant from Deepwater Horizon spill found to persist in the environment
- Efficient structures help build a sustainable future
- Health risks posed by 'third hand' tobacco smoke
- NOAA's GOES-R satellite Magnetometer ready for spacecraft integration
- Experts voice concerns over arsenic in rice
- Pressure cell for reproducing deep-Earth chemistry
- Nutritional, food safety benefits of organic farming documented by major study
- Ocean's most abundant organisms have clear daily cycles
- Polar zone ozone and UV exposure, under closer scrutiny than ever
- Odor communication in wild gorillas: Wild gorillas signal using odor
- One secret of ancient amber revealed
- First snapshots of water splitting in photosynthesis
- Short circuit in the food web: Complex interaction between algae and viruses
- Solar energy gets a boost: 'Singlet fission' can increase solar cell efficiency by as much as 30 percent
- Record levels of solar ultraviolet on Earth's surface measured in South America
- Logging and burning cause the loss of 54 million tons of carbon a year in Amazonia
- Low doses of arsenic cause cancer in male mice
- Lights out: Light pollution alters reproduction cycle in lemurs
- NASA launches carbon mission to watch Earth breathe
- Plants respond to leaf vibrations caused by insects' chewing
- Solar panels light the way from carbon dioxide to fuel
- Kudzu can release soil carbon, accelerate global warming
- Ancient Arctic sharks tolerated brackish water 50 million years ago
- 'Microbe sniffer' could point way to next-generation bio-refining
- Carbon footprint of flowering trees
- Green spaces in cities may increase erosion of building materials such as stone, concrete and steel
- Green planning needed to maintain city buildings
- Emperor penguin in peril: Climate change threatens dramatic declines
- High carbon dioxide levels cause warming in tropics
- Marine bacteria are natural source of chemical fire retardants
- Water-cleanup catalysts tackle biomass upgrading
- Team develops a geothermometer for methane formation
- Ancient ocean currents may have changed pacing and intensity of ice ages: Slowing of currents may have flipped switch
- Packing hundreds of sensors into a single optical fiber for use in harsh environments
- Organic agriculture boosts biodiversity on farmlands
- NASA's OCO-2 will track our impact on airborne carbon
- New NASA images highlight U.S. air quality improvement
- Managing specialized microbes to clean stubborn chemicals from environment
- Few obstetricians counsel patients on environmental toxics
- Win-win-win solution for biofuel, climate, and biodiversity
- Origin of life: Stanley Miller's forgotten experiments, analyzed
- Scientists create new battery that's cheap, clean, rechargeable ... and organic
- Carbon monoxide hazards on houseboats highlighted by study
- Study links Greenland ice sheet collapse, sea level rise 400,000 years ago
- Fracking flowback could pollute groundwater with heavy metals
- A new view: NASA/NOAA water vapor animations over oceans
- Eco-friendly versatile nanocapsules developed
- Organic standards go global
- BPA Substitute as bad as BPA? Exposure to BPA substitute causes hyperactivity and brain changes in fish
- Plant and bacteria genes could be used as early biomarkers of stress due to heavy metals
- Air pollution controls linked to lower death rates in North Carolina
- One step to solar-cell efficiency: Chemical process may improve manufacturing
- Testing biological treatment for pathogens that are killing honeybees and bats
- Re-routing flights could reduce climate impact, research suggests
- Winds of change for the shipping sector
- Where has all the soil gone? Focusing on soil loss important to researchers
- Nanoparticles from dietary supplement drinks likely to reach environment: Potentially harmful substances
- Quantum biology: Algae evolved to switch quantum coherence on and off
- New NASA space observatory to study carbon conundrums
- Wind turbine payback: Environmental lifecycle assessment of 2-megawatt wind turbines
- Forging new ground in oil forensics: Deepwater Horizon Oil on shore even years later, after most has degraded
- New evidence for 'oceans' of water deep in Earth: Water bound in mantle rock alters view of Earth's composition
- The 'microbial garden' taking the shine off glaciers
- How Earth avoided global warming, last time around
- More than just food for koalas: Scientists sequence genome of eucalyptus -- a global tree for fuel and fiber
- Home, office ventilation should be key issue during construction planning
- Forest loss starves fish: Forest debris that drains into lakes is important to freshwater food chains
- Snowballs to soot: The clumping density of many things seems to be a standard
- Geologists confirm oxygen levels of ancient oceans
- A plan to share carbon budget burden
- How much fertilizer is too much for the climate?
- Mosquito control pesticide use in coastal areas poses low risk to juvenile oysters, hard clams
- Earth's breathable atmosphere a result of continents taking control of the carbon cycle
- New England lakes recovering rapidly from acid rain
- Saving trees in tropics could cut emissions by one-fifth, study shows
- Fecal source tracking in Norwegian water catchments: New methods
- New insights into biomass breakdown provided by scientists
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