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Seabirds Need Effective Marine Conservation in Wake of Discard Ban, Warns Study
March 21, 2013 — Conservationists have renewed urgent calls for effective marine protection in European waters, after a new study revealed that the recent EU ban on fish discards could have a significant short-term ... > full story -
Understanding the Continuous Corn Yield Penalty
March 21, 2013 — As escalating corn prices have encouraged many farmers to switch to growing corn continuously, they wonder why they have been seeing unusually high yield reductions over the past several ... > full story -
Restoration and Recommendations for Flood-Damaged Bottomlands
March 20, 2013 — Although the 2012 drought in the Midwest may have dimmed the memories for some of the 2011 Ohio and Mississippi River flood, engineers, landowners, conservationists, crop scientists and soil ... > full story -
Ten Times More Hurricane Surges in Future, New Research Predicts
March 18, 2013 — How much worse will the frequency of extreme storm surges get as temperatures rise in the future? How many extreme storm surges like that from Hurricane Katrina, which hit the U.S. coast in 2005, ... > full story -
When It Rains These Days, Does It Pour? Has the Weather Become Stormier as the Climate Warms?
March 17, 2013 — Scientists have shown that the signature of an increase in storminess could be extracted from precipitation data for the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. The scientists suspect the same ... > full story -
An Accurate Way of Predicting Landslides
March 13, 2013 — A landslide can seriously injure or even kill people. Now, a new early warning system will be the first to employ geological data in tandem with the latest weather forecasts to provide a concrete ... > full story -
Remote Clouds Responsible for Climate Models' Glitch in Tropical Rainfall
March 11, 2013 — New research shows that cloud biases over the Southern Ocean are the primary contributor to the double-rain band problem that exists in most modern climate ... > full story -
Monsoon Failure Key to Long Droughts in Southwest
March 11, 2013 — Long-term droughts in the Southwestern North America often mean failure of both summer and winter rains, according to new tree-ring research. For the severe, multi-decadal droughts that occurred from ... > full story -
Pittsburgh's Leaky Faucet: How Aging Sewers Are Impacting Urban Watersheds
March 11, 2013 — Aging sewer systems are spilling a considerable amount of nitrogen into urban watersheds, diminishing both the quality of water and ecosystems' habitats. However, many studies documenting the impacts ... > full story -
Extreme Work Clothes for the Artic
March 11, 2013 — Roughnecks working on oil and gas installations in the Arctic need clothes that monitor the health. Research scientists are developing a jacket with built-in sensors. It will monitor both body ... > full story
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