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Climate change's future impact uncertain on Midwest water cycle, Dartmouth-led study finds
May 21, 2015 (SPX)
Will climate change make the U.S. Midwest drier or wetter during the summer growing season? A new Dartmouth-led study finds that the answer remains uncertain. T...
Historical land use an important factor for carbon cycling in northern lakes
May 21, 2015 (SPX)
The historical past is important when we seek to understand environmental conditions as they are today and predict how these might change in the future. This is...
Scientists discover tiny microbes with potential to cleanse waterways
May 21, 2015 (SPX)
A seven-year scientific study has revealed that microbial communities in urban waterways has the potential to play an important role in cleansing Singapore's wa...
Revealing the ocean's hidden fertilizer
May 20, 2015 (SPX)
Phosphorus is one of the most common substances on Earth. An essential nutrient for every living organism--humans require approximately 700 milligrams per day--...
Study reveals how rivers regulate global carbon cycle
May 20, 2015 (SPX)
Humans concerned about climate change are working to find ways of capturing excess carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and sequestering it in the Earth. Bu...
China illegally fishing in Africa, Greenpeace study finds
May 20, 2015 (AFP)
Chinese companies have been illegally fishing off the coast of West Africa, environmental campaign group Greenpeace said in a study Wednesday, at times sending ...
Europe's bathing waters cleaner, says Brussels
May 20, 2015 (AFP)
European beach and river bathing sites have cleaned up their acts, with 95 percent now meeting water quality standards in time for the summer holiday season, th...
Pakistan gets green loan from ADP
May 18, 2015 (UPI)
Pakistan will get as much as $65 million in loans to help advance hydroelectric power as a buffer against an aging grid, the Asian Development Bank said Monday....
Malaysian dam project opposed by tribes gets green light: report
May 16, 2015 (AFP)
Construction of a Malaysian dam that will flood a rainforested area half the size of Singapore and displace 20,000 tribespeople was given the green light Saturd...
Scientists tag a loggerhead sea turtle off US West Coast
May 15, 2015 (SPX)
Fifty miles out to sea from San Diego, in the middle of April, under a perfectly clear blue sky, NOAA Fisheries scientists Tomo Eguchi and Jeff Seminoff leaned ...
Solving corrosive ocean mystery reveals future climate
May 15, 2015 (SPX)
Around 55 million years ago, an abrupt global warming event triggered a highly corrosive deep-water current through the North Atlantic Ocean. The current's orig...
Gulf of Maine red tide bloom similar to past 3 years
May 15, 2015 (SPX)
New England's spring and summer red tides will be similar in extent to those of the past three years, according to the 2015 Gulf of Maine red tide seasonal fore...
River sediments, a dynamic reserve of pollutants
May 14, 2015 (SPX)
Metals are pollutants that have to be monitored in order to obtain a global overview of the quality of water systems, due to the fact that they remain in the en...
MIT engineers hand 'cognitive' control to underwater robots
May 14, 2015 (SPX)
For the last decade, scientists have deployed increasingly capable underwater robots to map and monitor pockets of the ocean to track the health of fisheries, a...
Mate competition weeds out GM fish from population
May 13, 2015 (SPX)
Purdue University research found that wild-type zebrafish consistently beat out genetically modified Glofish in competition for female mates, an advantage that ...
Not so cold-blooded creatures
May 13, 2015 (SPX)
Marine scientists have long known that some species of fish possess a unique physiological characteristic - a web of arteries and veins lying very close togethe...
Surprise from the deep ocean
May 13, 2015 (SPX)
How did the first complex eukaryotic cells with their organelles develop from simple prokaryotes, i.e. bacteria or archaea? This is a highly debated topic in ev...
Scientists go high-tech to study fragile cold-water reefs
May 13, 2015 (SPX)
In tropical reefs, the large diversity of species inhabiting the reef is evident to the naked eye. Cold-water coral reefs, in contrast, are less known to the pu...
Dissecting the ocean to learn where the heat, energy and nutrients go
May 13, 2015 (SPX)
Beyond the pounding surf loved by novelists and beachgoers alike, the ocean contains rolling internal waves beneath the surface that displace massive amounts of...
Fresh evidence for how water reached Earth found in asteroid debris
May 12, 2015 (SPX)
Water delivery via asteroids or comets is likely taking place in many other planetary systems, just as it happened on Earth, new research strongly suggests. Pub...
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