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Plant Water Demands Shift With Water Availability
January 22, 2013 Plants can adapt to extreme shifts in water availability, such as drought and flooding, but their ability to withstand these extreme patterns will be tested by future climate change, according to a ... > full story -
Tiny Fossils Hold Answers to Big Questions on Climate Change: Research Explores 12,000 Year Fossil Record
January 22, 2013 A new study reveals a unique 12,000 year record of marine algae fossils that may hold clues about past climate ... > full story -
Bubbling Up Organics in an Ocean Vent Simulator
January 22, 2013 Fizzy ocean water and the alkaline fluid that bubbles up from deep ocean vents are coursing through a structure at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. that is reminiscent of the ... > full story -
Synchrotron Infrared Unveils a Mysterious Microbial Community
January 22, 2013 A cold sulfur spring in Germany is the only place where archaea are known to dominate bacteria in a microbial community. How this unique community thrives and the lessons it may hold for ... > full story -
Wood on the Seafloor: An Oasis for Deep-Sea Life
January 22, 2013 Sunken woods promote the dispersal of rare deep-sea animals, forming hotspots of biodiversity at the deep ... > full story -
Climate Events Drive High-Arctic Vertebrate Community Into Synchrony: Extreme Weather Potent Force for Arctic Overwintering Populations
January 17, 2013 Climate change is known to affect the population dynamics of single species, such as reindeer or caribou, but the effect of climate at the community level has been much more difficult to document. ... > full story -
Great Oxidation Event: More Oxygen Through Multicellularity
January 17, 2013 The appearance of free oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere led to the Great Oxidation Event. This was triggered by cyanobacteria producing the oxygen which developed into multicellular forms as ... > full story -
Arctic Sea Ice Decline and Ice Export Between Greenland and Svalbard
January 14, 2013 The Arctic sea ice is shrinking, both in extent and thickness. In addition to the humanmade contribution to the sea ice loss, there are also natural factors contributing to this loss. In a new study ... > full story -
Saline Hiding Places for Bacteria in Río Tinto Could Be Like Those on Mars
January 11, 2013 Researchers have identified microorganisms that live inside salt deposits in the acidic and ferrous environment of the Tinto River in Huelva, Spain. The extreme conditions of these microniches appear ... > full story -
Cave Dwelling Nettle Discovered in China
December 28, 2012 British and Chinese botanists have discovered several new species of nettles growing in the entrance caverns of caves in 0.04 to 3 percent daylight. There has been little exploration of these caves ... > full story
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