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  Zebrafish Reveal Promising Process for Healing Spinal Cord Injury

  July 6, 2012 — Scientists are studying the mechanisms of spinal cord repair in zebrafish, which unlike humans and other mammals can regenerate their spinal cord following injury. Their findings suggest a family of ... > full story
• Severe Weather
  Storms
  Floods
  Tornadoes
  Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Weather
   
  

  NASA Sees Tropical Storm Debby's Clouds Blanket Florida

  June 25, 2012 — Like a white blanket, Tropical Storm Debby's clouds covered the entire state of Florida in a NASA satellite image. Two satellites have captured imagery that shows Tropical Storm Debby has thrown a ... > full story
• Oil Spills
  Oceanography
  Marine Biology
  Weather
  Global Warming
  Extinction
   
  

  Gulf of Mexico 'Dead Zone' Predictions Feature Uncertainty

  June 21, 2012 — Scientists are predicting that this year's Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone could range from a low of approximately 1,197 square miles to as much as 6,213 square miles. The wide range is the result of ... > full story
• Forest
  Birds
  Rainforests
  Nature
  Floods
  Biodiversity
   

  Restoring Streamside Forests Helps Songbirds Survive the Winter in California's Central Valley

  June 19, 2012 — Restoring floodplain forests in the Central Valley of California helps songbirds survive through the winter, a finding previously substantiated only for summer nesting ... > full story
• Global Warming
  Climate
  Floods
  El Nino and La Nina
  Biodiversity
  Geography
   
  

  Global Climate Change: Underestimated Impact of Sea-Level Rise on Habitat Loss?

  June 13, 2012 — Global climate change is expected to cause sea-level rise of approximately 1-2 meters within this century. Researchers have found that in more populated regions secondary effects can lead to an equal ... > full story
• Volcanoes
  Natural Disasters
  Air Quality
  Acid Rain
  Air Pollution
  Atmosphere
   
  

  Potential Iceland Eruption Could Pump Acid Into European Airspace

  June 12, 2012 — A modern recurrence of an extraordinary type of volcanic eruption in Iceland could inject large quantities of hazardous gases into North Atlantic and European flight corridors, potentially for months ... > full story
• Landslides
  Natural Disasters
  Water
  Geology
  Geography
  Earth Science
   
  

  Landslides Linked to Plate Tectonics Create the Steepest Mountain Terrain

  May 30, 2012 — New research shows some of the steepest mountain slopes in the world got that way because of the interplay between terrain uplift associated with plate tectonics and powerful streams cutting into ... > full story
• Oil Spills
  Environmental Issues
  Pollution
  Water
  Weather
  Oceanography
   
  

  Push from Mississippi Kept Deepwater Horizon Oil Slick Off Shore

  May 10, 2012 — Geoscientists offer an explanation for why the Deepwater Horizon oil spill didn't have the environmental impact that many had feared. Using publicly available datasets, their study reveals that the ... > full story
• Floods
  Computer Modeling
  Software
  Natural Disasters
  Information Technology
  Landslides
   
  

  Katrina Changed Everything: New Software Predicts How Water Will Spread

  April 18, 2012 — All over the country, millions of Americans still live behind dams or levees, and if these were to fail and unleash catastrophic flooding, as some did in New Orleans in 2005, property and life might ... > full story
• Dinosaurs
  Paleontology
  Fossils
  Floods
  Geology
  Extinction
   
  

  Duck-Billed Dinosaurs Endured Long, Dark Polar Winters

  April 11, 2012 — Duck-billed dinosaurs that lived within Arctic latitudes approximately 70 million years ago likely endured long, dark polar winters instead of migrating to more southern ... > full story

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