Dam problems, win-win solutions
Decisions about whether to build, remove or modify dams involve complex trade-offs that are often accompanied by social and political conflict. A group of...
Hydropower, innovations and avoiding international dam shame
For sweeping drama, it's hard to beat hydropower from dams -- a renewable source of electricity that helped build much of the developed world....
Turning marginal farmlands into a win for farmers and ecosystems
Many farms have areas where the ground either floods or does not retain enough water or fertilizer for crops to thrive. Such marginal lands...
Changing temperatures are helping corn production in US — for now
Increased production of corn in the United States has largely been credited to advances in farming technology but new research shows that changing temperatures...
Villagers follow the geology to safer water in Bangladesh
Water researchers have found a way to fight the 'king of poisons' that accounts for one of every 20 deaths in Bangladesh.
Organisms with small genomes, cells found thriving in hot soils
As our planet warms, what life will survive and thrive? If the coal fire-fueled soils around Centralia, Pennsylvania, are any indication, organisms with smaller...
More affordable and effective conservation of species
No one had reported seeing the strange creature -- a cross between a bear and a monkey -- since before the Great Depression. Then,...
How to reduce the impact of shipping vessel noise on fish? Slow them down
One concern with the increase vessel transits in the western Canadian Arctic is how noise pollution can detrimentally affect marine animals. Researchers have found...
Despite government claims, orangutan populations have not increased
Orangutan populations are still declining rapidly, despite claims by the Indonesian Government that things are looking better for the red apes. Scientists criticize the...
Magnetic pumping pushes plasma particles to high energies
The solar wind is not a calm summer breeze. Instead, it is a roiling, chaotic mess of turbulence and waves. There is a lot...
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