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Natural Soil Bacteria Pump New Life Into Exhausted Oil Wells
April 8, 2013 — Technology that enlists natural soil bacteria as 21st century roughnecks now is commercially available and poised to recover precious oil remaining in thousands of exhausted oil wells. The process ... > full story -
Total Buzz Kill: Metals in Flowers May Play Role in Bumblebee Decline
April 2, 2013 — Beekeepers and researchers nationally are reporting growing evidence that a powerful new class of pesticides may be killing off bumblebees. Now, research points toward another potential cause: metal ... > full story -
Soils in Newly Forested Areas Store Substantial Carbon That Could Help Offset Climate Change
April 1, 2013 — Surface appearances can be so misleading: In most forests, the amount of carbon held in soils is substantially greater than the amount contained in the trees themselves, according to new ... > full story -
Proximity to Coal-Tar-Sealed Pavement Raises Risk of Cancer, Study Finds
March 28, 2013 — People living near asphalt pavement sealed with coal tar have an elevated risk of cancer, according to a new study. Much of this calculated excess risk results from exposures in children, age six or ... > full story -
Growing Plants on Mars
March 28, 2013 — Concrete plans for a one-way ticket to Mars have been forged. Food will have to be grown on location. Is this a distant future scenario? Not for scientists researching whether or not it is possible ... > full story -
Caffeine-'Addicted' Bacteria: Finding May Lead to New Decontamination Methods, New Medicines
March 27, 2013 — Some people may joke about living on caffeine, but scientists now have genetically engineered E. coli bacteria to do that -- literally. Their report describes bacteria being "addicted" to caffeine in ... > full story -
Decreased Water Flow May Be Trade-Off for More Productive Forest
March 25, 2013 — As the need for carbon sequestration, biofuels, and other forest products increases, study suggests that there might be unintended consequences to enhancing ecosystems using ... > full story -
Losing Wetlands to Grow Crops
March 24, 2013 — Getting enough to eat is a basic human need – but at what cost to the environment? New research demonstrates that as their crops on higher ground fail due to unreliable rainfall, people in ... > 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 -
Can Intraplate Earthquakes Produce Stronger Shaking Than at Plate Boundaries?
March 20, 2013 — New information about the extent of the 1872 Owens Valley earthquake rupture, which occurs in an area with many small and discontinuous faults, may support a hypothesis that these types of quakes ... > full story
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