A University of Michigan researcher is developing a unique way to reconcile these crucial data. “If we're going to adapt to climate change, we need to be able…
If you are a fish eater, it's likely that the salmon you had for dinner was not caught in the wild, but was instead grown in a mesh cage submerged in the open…
Imagine you live in the suburbs of Chicago and you must commute hundreds of miles to a job in Iowa just to put food on the table. Magellanic penguins living on…
In the rush to market, products also bring hitchhikers: invasive species. These exotics often overtake native species, ravage agriculture, fisheries and…
Investigations into coral disease, red tides and other marine environmental issues have led to discoveries of new chemicals as a source for pharmaceuticals….
Putting a price tag on carbon dioxide emitted by different land use practices could dramatically change the way that land is used – forests become increasingly…
More than 20 million tons of plastic are placed in U.S. landfills each year. Results from a new University of Missouri study suggest that some of the largely…
A Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning study on climate change, published February 10, 2009 online by Environmental Science and Technology, shows that…
It has generally been assumed that many of these animals live only on seamounts, and are found nowhere else. However, two new research papers show that most…
Nitrogen from agricultural fertilizers leaches through soils to groundwater and runs off into rivers and lakes, increasing aquatic dissolved nitrate. Too much…
This information is vital for examining changes in cropland production and management techniques and could play an even bigger role as more land is devoted to…
The decline of amphibian populations worldwide has been documented primarily in frogs, but salamander populations also appear to have plummeted, according to a…
These new technologies include improved monitoring of large-scale water distribution systems to sensors at individual households capable of detecting dangerous…
Storrs Olson, research zoologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, and geologist Paul Hearty of the Bald Head Island Conservancy…
Research at the University of Minnesota has revealed that road salt used throughout the winter is making the state's lakes and rivers saltier, which could…
The study adds to growing literature supporting source and component specific differences in toxicity of pollutant particles of a given size, and challenges…
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