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Sea Salt Holds Clues To Climate Change
What is climate change doing
to the saltiness, or
salinity, of our oceans?
This is an important
question because big shifts
in salinity could be a
warning that more severe
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Organic Dairy Manure May Offer High Quality Fertilizer Option
Dairy cows that produce
USDA-certified organic milk
also produce manure that may
gradually replenish soil
nutrients and potentially
reduce the flow of
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Neural Networks Used To Improve Wind Speed Forecasting
Scientists have invented a
new method for predicting
the wind speed of wind farm
aerogenerators. The system
is based on combining the
use of weather forecasting
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'Sobering' Decline Of Caribbean's Big Fish, Fisheries: Overfishing Deemed Most Likely Cause
Sharks, barracuda and other
large predatory fishes
disappear on Caribbean coral
reefs as human populations
rise, endangering the
... > full story
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Carbon Balance Of Terrestrial Ecosystems In China
May 6, 2009 — During the 1980s and 1990s, China showed a net carbon sink of 0.19–0.26 Pg carbon (PgC), which is smaller than that in the conterminous United States but comparable to that in geographic ... > full story -
How Social Insects Recognize Dead Nestmates
May 6, 2009 — When an ant dies in an ant nest or near one, its body is quickly picked up by living ants and removed from the colony. The predominant understanding among entomologists was that dead ants release ... > full story -
New Antarctic Seabed Sonar Images Reveal Clues To Sea-level Rise
May 6, 2009 — Motorway-sized troughs and channels carved into Antarctica's continental shelves by glaciers thousands of years ago could help scientists to predict future sea-level rise, according to a new article ... > full story -
Two Brown Bear Populations In Spain In Danger of Extinction Have Been Isolated For Past 50 Years
May 6, 2009 — The situation of bears in the Iberian Peninsula is critical. Researchers have confirmed that brown bears (Ursus arctos) belonging to the Cantabrian mountain range, divided into eastern and western ... > full story -
Origin Of Volcano's Carbon-based Lavas Revealed
May 6, 2009 — Researchers analyze gas samples collected from Tasmanian volcano to determine processes at work in Earth's upper ... > full story -
Ocean Carbon: Dent In Iron Fertilization Hypothesis Previously Proposed To Address Climate Change
May 6, 2009 — Oceanographers have analyzed data from an iron-fertilization experiment in the Southern Ocean. Unfortunately most of the carbon from lush plankton blooms, both artificially fertilized and natural, ... > full story -
Wind, Salt And Water Are Leading Indicators Of Land Degradation In Abu Dhabi Desert Lands
May 6, 2009 — The desert lands of Abu Dhabi are subjected to various land degradation stresses, including wind erosion, salinization, waterlogging, landfilling and overgrazing. Sustaining these lands has become an ... > full story -
Ants In Southern Hemisphere Richer And More Diversified Than Northern Hemisphere Ants
May 6, 2009 — Australia has more ants than the entire northern hemisphere. There are far fewer species of ants in the northern hemisphere than in the southern hemisphere. Scientists studied 1,003 local ant ... > full story -
Sewage Treatment In The East May Be Enough To Reduce Baltic Algal Blooms
May 6, 2009 — Upgrading sewage treatment in the southeastern Baltic Sea states to Swedish standards may suffice to reduce algal blooms in the Baltic to levels of the ... > full story -
Erupting Undersea Volcano Near Island Of Guam Supports Unique Ecosystem
May 5, 2009 — Scientists who have just returned from an expedition to an erupting undersea volcano near the Island of Guam report that the volcano appears to be continuously active, has grown considerably in size ... > full story
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