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Research finds mangroves being fed to death
May 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New UQ Science research has found the increase in nutrients coming out of our river systems is putting pressure on our mangrove forests and making them far more susceptible to environmental ...
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Double trouble for water life
May 18, 2009 |
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Excess phosphorus and nitrogen produced by human activities on neighboring land is making its way into our coastal waters and degrading both water quality and aquatic life. Although historically the priority has been to control ...
Researcher strives for watershed moment
May 21, 2008 |
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According to the World Health Organization, water scarcity affects four out of every 10 people around the world and population growth, urbanization and increased domestic and industrial water use are making the problem worse. ...
Numerical simulations of nutrient transport changes in Honghu Lake Basin
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 20, 2008 |
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Nutrients transported from catchments are one of the most important sources for lake eutrophication. The Honghu Lake Basin, located at the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, was chosen as the study area, the numerical simulations ...
Nile Delta fishery grows dramatically thanks to run-off of sewage, fertilizers
Jan 19, 2009 |
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While many of the world's fisheries are in serious decline, the coastal Mediterranean fishery off the Nile Delta has expanded dramatically since the 1980s.
Nile Delta fishery grows dramatically thanks to run-off of sewage, fertilizers
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While many of the world’s fisheries are in serious decline, the coastal Mediterranean fishery off the Nile Delta has expanded dramatically since the 1980s.
Fertilization intensifies competition for light and endangers plant diversity
Apr 30, 2009 |
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When grasslands are fertilized their productivity is increased but their plant diversity is diminished. In the last 50 years levels of plant-available nitrogen and phosphorous have doubled worldwide. This additional supply ...
Seabird ammonia emissions contribute to atmospheric acidity
Sep 23, 2008 |
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Ammonia emissions from seabirds have been shown to be a significant source of nitrogen in remote coastal ecosystems, contributing to nutrient enrichment (eutrophication) and acidification in ecosystems. While most ammonia ...
Higher carbon dioxide may give pines competitive edge
Aug 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Pine trees grown for 12 years in air one-and-a-half times richer in carbon dioxide than today's levels produced twice as many seeds of at least as good a quality as those growing under normal ...
Researchers explore long-term adolescent vulnerability to drugs
Sep 16, 2009 |
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As part of efforts to understand drug abuse, Georgia State University researchers are finding that adolescent rats appear to be less vulnerable to the long-term effects of withdrawal and relapse in certain types of drug use ...
New research to unravel how nutrients drive toxic 'brown tides' on East Coast
Sep 17, 2009 |
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NOAA has awarded Massachusetts-based Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution $120,000 as part of an anticipated three-year, nearly $500,000 project, to determine how nitrogen and phosphorus promote brown tides on the East Coast. ...
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