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Inmates conduct ecological research on slow-growing mosses
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Oct 20, 2008 |
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Nalini Nadkarni of Evergreen State College currently advises a team of researchers who sport shaved heads, tattooed biceps and prison-issued garb rather than the lab coats and khakis typically worn by researchers. ...
Chloride In Big Darby Creek Has Increased Three-Fold In Past 40 Years
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 20, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Chloride levels in central Ohio’s Big Darby Creek were three times higher in 2007 than the levels recorded in the late 1960s, and have more than doubled since 1992, according to an analysis conducted at Ohio ...
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Calif. scientists battle Kiwi mud snails
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Jun 12, 2006 |
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Southern California environmentalists are struggling to find ways to control invasive New Zealand mud snails.
Nature Conservancy buys Calif. ranchland in hopes of restoring salmon run
Mar 17, 2009 |
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The Nature Conservancy has bought ranchland near Mount Shasta to repair a cow-ravaged tributary of Shasta River, historically one of the most productive salmon streams in California.
Northern brown bears discovered feeding on whitefish runs
Sep 22, 2009 |
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The discovery of brown (grizzly) bears feeding on migrating broad whitefish in a stream in Mackenzie Delta region of the Northwest Territories has researchers advising increased care in petroleum extraction and infrastructure ...
A new dinosaur species, Pachyrhinosaur lakustai, unveiled from Pipestone Creek, Alberta, Canada
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 02, 2008 |
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The fossils revealed a herd of dinosaurs that perished in a catastrophic event 72.5 million years ago. The animals are characterized by a bony frill on the back of the skull ornamented with smaller horns. ...
As a river runs through it, a Death Valley stream offers insights into flooding and climate change
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 30, 2008 |
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Death Valley may be known by its three superlatives: hottest, driest, and lowest – as in temperature, rainfall, and elevation in the United States. But it was the flow of water through the National Park that ...
Hybrid 'Muttsucker' Has Genes of Three Species
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Jul 23, 2008 |
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In the murky waters of an inconspicuous stream in a remote area of Wyoming, researchers detail the potential impact that an introduced fish, the white sucker, could have on the evolutionary biology of fishes.
Pointing a finger at the source of fecal bacteria
May 23, 2007 |
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Excessive levels of fecal bacteria were to blame for almost 60 percent of Nebraska streams deemed impaired by federal and state environmental laws in 2004. In order to develop effective pollution-control strategies, ...
DOE unveils experimental metagenomics data
Mar 30, 2006 |
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The U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute has released IMG/M, an experimental metagenome data management and analysis system.
Biologists want to save trout with poison
Jun 19, 2006 |
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For the fifth time, biologists are reportedly proposing to poison a remote Sierra stream to restore what might be America's rarest trout.
Los Angeles beaches closed after spill
Aug 09, 2006 |
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Los Angeles County health officials ordered the closing of several Santa Monica Bay beaches after Ballona Creek was contaminated by 20,000 gallons of sewage.
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