Carbon nanoparticles are widely used in medicine, electronics, optics, materials science and architecture, but their health and environmental impact is not…
A previously unrecognized player in the process by which gases produced by trees and other plants become aerosols—microscopically small particles in the…
Temple University biologist Erik Cordes and a team of researchers are developing a means for protecting vital coral communities from an expanding frontier of…
The discovery, made by Dr Arne Redsted Rasmussen and Dr Johan Elmberg, showed that Yellow-lipped Sea Kraits (Laticauda colubrina) use skin markings and…
Sangwon Suh and colleagues point out in the study that annual bioethanol production in the U.S. is currently about 9 billion gallons and note that experts…
“Today, the middle of Wyoming is a vast desert, and a few antelope and deer are all you see,” said lead author Michael Woodburne, honorary curator of geology…
A single mutation can put a flu virus on a new-enough path to re-infect people who had developed immunity to its previous form, said Katia Koelle, a Duke…
Shooting ranges are the major source of Pb contamination in Japan where over 600 sites are present mostly in remote locations.Remediation of Pb-contaminated…
Entire populations of North American fish already are being affected by several emerging diseases, a problem that threatens to increase in the future with…
Scientists have joined forces in a groundbreaking assessment on the status of marine fisheries and ecosystems. The two-year study, led by Boris Worm of…
Australian Beth Fulton, a fishery ecosystem scientist from the CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship, was among an international team of 19 co-authors of a report…
The answer, based on tests by the University of Wisconsin-Madison engine research group headed by Rolf Reitz, would be a diesel engine that produces…
You probably hadn't noticed — but the head shape and overall size of rodents has been changing over the past century. A University of Illinois at Chicago…
The ocean's smallest swimming animals, such as jellyfish, can have a huge impact on large-scale ocean mixing, researchers have discovered.”The perspective we…
While policymakers across of the globe are relying on environmental restoration projects to fuel emerging market-based environmental programs, an article in…
“We have developed a model that shows on maps how various types of plants develop in a Mediterranean landscape, with the role of fire included as an integral…
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