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Alpine rivers hold important clues for preserving biodiversity and coping with climate change

This finding provides important clues for protecting Europe's rivers against a combined onslaught from human development and climate change, which are tampering with existing ecosystems and chang...

Earth Sciences |

Liquid or solid? Charged nanoparticles in lipid membrane decide

Using charged nanoparticles, researchers at the University of Illinois have found a new way to stimulate patchiness in phospholipid membranes."We are seeing a previously unsuspected respo...

Life Sciences |

Early Americans faced rapid late Pleistocene climate change and chaotic environments

The environment encountered when the first people emigrated into the New World was variable and ever-changing, according to a Penn State geologist. "The New World was not ...

Earth Sciences |

Tsunami research shows destructive path worse in developed areas

Last December’s tsunami was a destructive force of nature that swept entire villages away and resulted in the deaths of approximately 200,000 people. Now, a team of researchers includ...

Earth Sciences |

Israeli, U.S., German Researchers Use Acoustic 3-D Imaging System To Unveil Remarkable Behavior Of Ocean Plankton

An international team of scientists from Israel, the United States and Germany, led by Prof. Amatzia Genin of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Interuniversity Institute for Marin...

Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |

Hawaiian soils reveal clues to cultural history

Oliver Chadwick is a doctor of dirt. The soil scientist –– or biogeochemist, as he is known in some circles –– is helping to shed light on the historical interactions between people and...

Agricultural and Forestry Science |

January Geology and GSA Today media highlights

The January issue of GEOLOGY covers a wide variety of potentially newsworthy subjects. Topics include: new insights into conditions during the Neoproterozoic and Cryogenian; evidence challengin...

Earth Sciences |

Pocket gophers serve as ’ecosystem engineers’

Love them or hate them, pocket gophers have an important effect on the soil and plants where they live. They serve as small "ecosystem engineers" generating major impacts on the physical en...

Ecology, The Environment and Conservation |

Forest Fragmentation May Increase Lyme Disease Risk

Patchy woods-common in cities and suburbia, and even in rural areas-may have more Lyme disease-carrying ticks, which could increase risk of the disease in these forest remnants, scientists have...

Health and Medicine |

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