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Posted January 14, 2002:

• Pondering A Climate Conundrum In Antarctica; Unique, Distinct Cooling Trend Discovered On Earth's Southernmost Continent

Posted January 7, 2002:

• Evolutionary "Speed Limit" Governs How Quickly Life Bounces Back After Extinction; Biodiversity Recovers More Slowly Than Thought

Posted December 19, 2001:

• On California's Channel Islands, Native Predators Became Prey When Feral Pigs Rearranged The Food Web

Posted December 13, 2001:

• Livermore Scientists To Present Global Warming Mitigation Tool For Ridding The Atmosphere Of Excess Carbon
• Engineered Strategies To Mitigate Global Warming Could Influence Biosphere

Posted December 4, 2001:

• A Curve Ball Into The Snowball Earth Hypothesis?

Posted December 3, 2001:

• Past Fire Regime Is Key To Managing Chaparral Fires In Southern California

Posted November 29, 2001:

• Healy Researchers Make A Series Of Striking Discoveries About Arctic Ocean

Posted November 20, 2001:

• Earth's Ecosystems Slowed Greenhouse Gas Buildup In 1990s, Climate Changes Could Speed It Up Again
• Ocean Circulation Shut Down By Melting Glaciers After Last Ice Age

Posted November 2, 2001:

• Scientists Succeed At First-Ever Attempt To Sequence DNA At Sea; Pioneering Technologies Allow Real-Time Sequencing Of Organisms From Hydrothermal Vents In Pacific Ocean

Posted October 29, 2001:

• Studying Coastal Eddies: Restaurants And Nurseries Of The Sea

Posted October 26, 2001:

• Diversity Of Species Triumphs

Posted October 12, 2001:

• Researchers Report On Possible Biological Effects Of Deep-Sea CO₂ Sequestration

Posted October 11, 2001:

• Accumulated Change Courts Ecosystem Catastrophe
• Invading Ants Disrupt Ecosystem

Posted October 10, 2001:

• Crayfish Research Illustrates Environmental Health

Posted September 21, 2001:

• New Study Shows That Salmon "Feed" The Very Forests That Nurture Them

Posted September 20, 2001:

• New Computer Model Tracks And Predicts Paths Of Earth's Dust

Posted September 14, 2001:

• University Of Rhode Island Oceanographers Link Warmer Water Temperatures And The Decline Of Winter Flounder

Posted September 5, 2001:

• Secret To Earth's "Big Chill" Found In Underground Water

Posted August 6, 2001:

• Wave Of The Future? Dams As River Restoration

Posted July 23, 2001:

• Arctic Ecosystems Being Nibbled Away

Posted July 11, 2001:

• World Land Database Charts A Troubling Course

Posted July 2, 2001:

• Where There's Soup, There's Life

Posted June 19, 2001:

• Muddy Waters: Letting The Gulf Of Mexico Breathe Again

Posted June 14, 2001:

• Study Says Bleaching Could Be A Hidden Strength For Corals

Posted June 12, 2001:

• Climate Change Affecting Even Remote Arctic Environment, Study Says

Posted May 24, 2001:

• Soil Fertility Limits Forests' Capacity To Absorb Excess CO₂

Posted April 27, 2001:

• Rhode Island Scientists To Study Life Beneath The Ocean Floor

Posted April 18, 2001:

• NSF Ships To Probe Biological Enigmas Of The Frozen Southern Ocean

Posted April 15, 2001:

• Increased Use Of Chemicals In Agriculture Worldwide Seen As Major Environmental Threat

Posted April 12, 2001:

• Biodiversity Increases Ecosystems' Ability To Absorb CO₂ And Nitrogen

Posted April 6, 2001:

• Small Streams Contribute Far More Than Previously Thought To Cleaning Waterways

Posted February 20, 2001:

• AAAS Atlas Shows Human Impact On Environment

Posted February 15, 2001:

• Major Unique New Study Shows Infrequent Inspections Lead To Greater Stream Pollution

Posted February 7, 2001:

• Sea Grant Study Indicates Potentially Harmful Human Viruses In Coastal Waters

Posted February 5, 2001:

• Tallgrass Prairies May Provide Early Warning Of Climate Change

Posted January 22, 2001:

• Amazon Roads May Lead To Peril For Rainforest

Posted January 11, 2001:

• Scientists Find That Grasslands Can Act As "Carbon Sinks"

Posted January 10, 2001:

• Energy From The Sea Floor Could Power Oceanographic Equipment

Posted December 18, 2000:

• Chemical May Deter Starfish From Devouring Endangered Coral Reefs

Posted December 14, 2000:

• Scientists Track Phosphate To Better Understand Global Warming

Posted November 17, 2000:

• Microbial Transport At Yellowstone: By Land, Sea Or Air?

Posted November 16, 2000:

• University At Buffalo Research Offers First Evidence That Massive Lava Flows Triggered Apocalyptic Climate Changes

Posted November 10, 2000:

• Changes In North American Land Use Have Had Major Impact On Global Environment

Posted October 26, 2000:

• Global Coral Reef Monitoring Now Feasible With New Landsat 7 Data Archive

Posted October 23, 2000:

• Astrobiologists Probe A Desert Galapagos To See Evolution's Great Leap

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