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Is the Dead Sea dying?

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The water levels in the Dead Sea - the deepest point on Earth - are dropping at an alarming rate with serious environmental consequences, according to Shahrazad Abu Ghazleh and colleagues from the University ...





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FDA OKs Voluven for post-op blood loss

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 28, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Voluven as a treatment for blood loss after surgery.


Help students think like soil scientists

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Emphasizing cross-disciplinary concepts in teaching soil science courses, such as mass-volume relationships, can help undergraduates learn real-world, problem-solving skills that are crucial to their success in soil science ...


How much water does the ocean have?

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The calculation of variations in the sea level is relatively simple. It is by far more complicated to then determine the change in the water mass. A team of geodesists and oceanographers from the University of Bonn, as well ...


3-D laser scanning: A new soil quality measurement

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 03, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Soil researchers pay close attention to bulk density, as it is one of the most common soil measurements and it is often used as a measure of soil quality. A soil's bulk density can be indicative of the ease of root penetration, ...


Slow melt of heavy snow better for the environment

Slow melt of heavy snow better for the environment

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 20, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Water is on the minds of many Canadians at the moment, and not just because this Saturday is World Water Day. The record level accumulation of snow laden with imported moisture brought up from the Gulf of ...


Pickleweed tolerates irrigation with seawater and high levels of boron

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 08, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Reuse of agricultural drainage water (DW) for irrigation is one of the few on-farm water management options available to growers on the west side of California's San Joaquin Valley (SJV) for reducing drainage water volumes ...


Sunlight has more powerful influence on ocean circulation and climate than North American ice sheets

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 06, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (33) | comments 11

A study reported in today's issue of Nature disputes a longstanding picture of how ice sheets influence ocean circulation during glacial periods.


Energy-efficient water purification

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Water and energy are two resources on which modern society depends. As demands for these increase, researchers look to alternative technologies that promise both sustainability and reduced environmental impact. Engineered ...


Whispering bats are 100 times louder than previously thought

Biology /

created Dec 12, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Annemarie Surlykke from the University of Southern Denmark is fascinated by echolocation. She really wants to know how it works. Surlykke equates the ultrasound cries that bats use for echolocation with the beam of light ...


Rocky water source

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 11, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Gypsum, a rocky mineral is abundant in desert regions where fresh water is usually in very short supply but oil and gas fields are common. Writing in International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, Peter van der Ga ...



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