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Study finds greenhouse gas reduction strategy may be safe for soil animals

A new study has found that an emerging tool for combating climate change may cause less harm to some soil animals than initial studies suggested.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Planning strategies needed to protect food sources

(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate change and urban expansion could threaten the sustainability of horticultural industries in the Adelaide Hills unless a long-term strategy is employed, according to a senior geographer at the University ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Humans may have helped the decline of African rainforests 3000 years ago

(PhysOrg.com) -- Large areas of rainforests in Central Africa mysteriously disappeared over three thousand years ago, to be replaced by savannas. The prevailing theory has been that the cause was a change ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 21 | with audio podcast report

The hills are evolving: New model predicts speed of spreading valleys

From high above the Florida Panhandle, the Apalachicola Bluffs -- a winding system of steep ravines -- look like the branching veins of a leaf.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Yellow-cedar are dying in Alaska: Scientists now know why

Yellow-cedar, a culturally and economically valuable tree in southeastern Alaska and adjacent parts of British Columbia, has been dying off across large expanses of these areas for the past 100 years. But ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New biodiversity map of the Andes shows species in dire need of protection

The Andes-Amazon basin of Peru and Bolivia is one of the most biologically rich and rapidly changing areas of the world. A new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Ecology has used information collec ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New research expected to help utility companies predict service life of pipelines

Regression models presented in the American Society of Civil Engineers' Journal of Infrastructure Systems by researchers at Syracuse University's L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science are expected to hel ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Solutions for a nitrogen-soaked world

Nitrogen is both an essential nutrient and a pollutant, a byproduct of fossil fuel combustion and a fertilizer that feeds billions, a benefit and a hazard, depending on form, location, and quantity. Agriculture, industry ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Microbe metabolism: For the smallest organisms, size determines how microbes spend energy

Every living organism balances a budget of sorts — by allocating energy to various parts of its body to fuel essential life processes. Throughout its lifetime, an organism may rebalance this budget to ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Possible new explanation found for sudden demise of Khmer Empire

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Khmer Empire, known to many as the Angkor Civilization, was a society of people that lived for several centuries in Southeast Asia in what is now Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and Viet Nam. ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (20) | comments 30 | with audio podcast report

Exotic plants do not necessarily become invasive

Introduced plant species do not necessarily have to outgrow indigenous plant species. That makes it difficult to predict the potential harm of exotic plants. NWO-funded researcher Annelein Meisner recently published an article ...

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Location, location, location: Economists document key role of spatial component in economic growth

Location and other geographical factors play an important role in supporting economic growth and development in emerging markets, a new study from the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty has found.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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