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Scientists Return from Expedition to Drill Beneath Frozen Russian Lake
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from the United States, Germany, Russia and Austria has just returned from a six-month drilling expedition to a frozen lake in Siberia: Lake El'gygytgyn, "Lake E" for ...
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Ecosystem, vegetation affect intensity of urban heat island effect
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 15, 2009 |
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NASA researchers studying urban landscapes have found that the intensity of the "heat island" created by a city depends on the ecosystem it replaced and on the regional climate. Urban areas developed in arid and semi-arid ...
Scientists warn restoration-based environmental markets may not improve ecosystem health
Jul 30, 2009 |
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While policymakers across of the globe are relying on environmental restoration projects to fuel emerging market-based environmental programs, an article in the July 31 edition of Science by two noted ecologists warns that t ...
Dogs used to detect rare carnivores
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Dec 17, 2007 |
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U.S. Forest Service scientists at the Pacific Southwest Research Station are using dogs to detect the presence of rare California carnivores.
New methods used to follow land use
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Jun 12, 2006 |
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Dutch researcher Koen Overmars has used a combination of analyses to gain insight into how land use is changing in San Mariano on the Philippines.
Headwater stream nutrient enrichment disrupts food web
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Human activity is increasing the supply of nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, to stream systems all over the world. The conventional wisdom -- bolstered by earlier research -- has held that these additional nutrients ...
Human Impacts and Environmental Factors Are Changing the Northwest Atlantic Ecosystem
Aug 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Fish in U.S. waters from Cape Hatteras to the Canadian border have moved away from their traditional, long-time habitats over the past four decades because of fundamental changes in the regional ...
In the warming West, climate most significant factor in fanning wildfires' flames
Jun 26, 2009 |
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The recent increase in area burned by wildfires in the Western United States is a product not of higher temperatures or longer fire seasons alone, but a complex relationship between climate and fuels that varies among different ...
Spring cold snap helps with stream ecosystem research
Jul 23, 2009 |
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A rare April freeze in 2007 provided researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory with further evidence that climate change could have negative effects on stream and forest ecosystems.
World's last great forest under threat: new study
Aug 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's last remaining "pristine" forest - the boreal forest across large stretches of Russia, Canada and other northern countries - is under increasing threat, a team of international researchers has ...
Coffee cultivation good for diversity in agrarian settlements but not in forests
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Feb 19, 2009 |
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Coffee shrubs, both in themselves and because they are most often cultivated in the shade of large trees, can have a positive impact on plant and animal diversity in those parts of the landscape that are deforested and dominated ...
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