Google announced today a vast expansion of its popular Google Earth application to include seabed maps and underwater imagery. The launch event was held at…
In urban areas diesel vehicles are causing air pollution (from carbon particles, nitrogen oxides (NOX)) and unburned hydrocarbons). As the European legislation…
According to the study, in Europe days of extreme cold are decreasing and days of extreme heat increasing. From 0.5ºC to 1ºC in the average minimum…
A team of scientists has successfully flown from the Arctic to the Antarctic this month aboard an advanced research aircraft, the first step in a three-year…
And yet, the profusion of prey in the region could potentially support more than 900 individuals of the emblematic African lion, according to new research –…
“It is very important to get IDs on species that are struck,” he said. “If we don’t know which birds are struck then we don’t know how to prevent it.”The…
“The most common method to clean-up groundwater is biodegradation — using microbes to consume the contaminants and break them down into more benign end…
The research, conducted by an international team led by Raymond Pollard of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, and included Matthew Charette, a…
A part of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which separates Washington state from Canada's British Columbia, is a potential “hot spot” for toxic harmful algal blooms…
You don't have to visit the Galapagos Islands to see evolution in action. Sometimes, all you have to do is hatch some eggs.Layered in the sediments of rivers…
It involves gathering billions of tons of cornstalks, wheat straw, and other crop residue from farm fields, bailing it, shipping the material to seaports, and…
Their study, the first to report on how different pH levels may affect the safety of QDs, appears in the Jan.15 issue of ACS’ Environmental Science &…
That is a significant amount of carbon, the process can be accomplished with existing technology and it can be done year after year, according to Stuart…
The team will use sophisticated mathematical techniques to fill information gaps between the satellite's direct measurements, the closest of which will be 93…
The paper, co-authored by five researchers including WHOI biologists Stephanie Jenouvrier and Hal Caswell, uses mathematical models to predict the effect on…
Scientists studied the impact that current carbon emissions have on the delicate balance between air and sea carbon exchange. They found that the ocean’s…
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