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Source of Organic Matter Affects Bay Water Quality
April 23, 2013 — Organic carbon in runoff from urbanized landscapes is more likely to persist as it is carried downstream, thus contributing to low-oxygen "dead zones" in coastal ... > full story -
Flexible Partnership Allows Lichens to Occur in Different Habitats
April 23, 2013 — A group of researchers has discovered the survival secrets of a lichen that occurs in polar regions of the northern and southern Hemisphere, but curiously also dwells in the warm climate of the ... > full story -
Contact Killing of Salmonella by Human Fecal Bacteria
April 23, 2013 — Researchers have recently found a novel mode of interaction between Salmonella, a foodborne pathogen, and the bacteria that live in our guts. Fecal bacteria collected from healthy donors effectively ... > full story -
Less Rainfall Expected for the Hawaiian Islands
April 23, 2013 — Almost imperceptibly, rainfall over the Hawaiian Islands has been declining since 1978, and this trend is likely to continue with global warming to the end of this century, according to ... > full story -
NASA's HyspIRI: Seeing the Forest and the Trees and More
April 22, 2013 — Light contains fingerprints of materials that can be detected by sensors that capture the unique set of reflected wavelengths. The technique was applied to Earth during new work by ... > full story -
Rivers Act as 'Horizontal Cooling Towers' for Power Plants, Study Finds
April 22, 2013 — Running two computer models in tandem, scientists have detailed for the first time how thermoelectric power plants interact with climate, hydrology, and aquatic ecosystems throughout the northeastern ... > full story -
Cocktail of Multiple Pressures Combine to Threaten the World's Pollinating Insects
April 22, 2013 — A new review of insect pollinators of crops and wild plants has concluded they are under threat globally from a cocktail of multiple pressures, and their decline or loss could have profound ... > full story -
Nitrogen Has Key Role in Estimating Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Land Use Change
April 19, 2013 — A new global-scale modeling study that takes into account nitrogen -- a key nutrient for plants -- estimates that carbon emissions from human activities on land were 40 percent higher in the 1990s ... > full story -
Global Warming: 'Black Carbon' Flowing from Soil to Oceans
April 19, 2013 — A smaller proportion of black carbon created during combustion will remain in soil than have been estimated before. Contrary to previous understanding, burying black carbon in the ground in order to ... > full storyMore: -
Sea-Ice Ecosystem Possibly Triggered Evolution of Baleen Whales and Penguins
April 18, 2013 — The origin of the unique plankton ecosystem of the circum-Antarctic Southern Ocean can be traced back to the emergence of the Antarctic ice sheets approximately 33.6 million years ago. This discovery ... > full story
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