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Study Probes Sources of Mississippi River Phosphorus
But according to new modeling research that examined phosphorus loading from all 1768 counties in the Mississippi River Basin (MRB), the true causes aren’t…
Native Americans Significantly Modified American Landscape Years Prior to the Arrival of Europeans
The study appears on-line in the journal Geology.Researchers attribute early colonial land-use practices, such as deforestation, plowing and damming with…
Study suggests alternative treatment for bacteria in oysters
A joint study by local oyster growers and researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science shows that moving farmed oysters into saltier waters just…
Pollution Triggers Genetic Resistance Mechanism in a Coastal Fish
Researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have joined colleagues from New York University (NYU) and NOAA to investigate this phenomenon and…
A Genetic Mutation Allows Hudson River Fish to Adapt to PCBs
In a study published in the February 18, 2011, online issue of Science, they report that a population of Hudson River fish apparently evolved rapidly in…
Spring Flooding Could Swell North Dakota Lake by 50 Square Miles
“We’re at a point in the lake level’s rise where the rate of change is dramatic,” he explains. “As bad as things have been, we’re transitioning into a period…