Cleaning up aquatic pollution with mussels
Scientists and activists alike have been looking for a solution to the problem of aquatic nutrient pollution. Now one group reports that ribbed mussels...
Engineering microbial communities? Paradoxes in microbial economies
Scientist have described a trio of paradoxical dynamics that can arise in simple microbial economies. The work could be important for approaching engineered microbial...
We should use central pressure deficit, not wind speed, to predict hurricane damage
New research provides a physical understanding for why central pressure deficit is a better indicator of economic damage from hurricanes than peak wind speed.
It takes a microclimate to raise a pinyon tree
New research shows that the microclimate is an important factor in regional pinyon pine tree recovery after drought.
New approach to geoengineering simulations is significant step forward
Using a sophisticated computer model, scientists have demonstrated for the first time that a new research approach to geoengineering could potentially be used to...
Bringing back large herbivores to the steppes
On 24th October 2017, the first group of nine kulan (Asiatic wild ass) was released into an acclimatization enclosure on the edge of the...
How climate change may reshape subalpine wildflower communities
An unseasonably warm, dry summer in 2015 on Washington state's Mount Rainier caused subalpine wildflowers to change their bloom times and form 'reassembled' communities,...
Hot news from the Antarctic underground
A new NASA study adds evidence that a geothermal heat source called a mantle plume lies deep below Antarctica's Marie Byrd Land, explaining some...
First coast-to-coast land motion map of Scotland derived from satellite radar images
Using hundreds of satellite radar images a research team has created a complete map of mainland Scotland.
Measuring atoms for better navigation and mineral detection
Better navigation systems and tracking of minerals and water may be the result of a new discovery by physicists studying atom measurement devices.
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