River beds on the move: Shifting flood risk?
(Phys.org) —A detailed study of shifting river beds, conducted by researchers at the University of St Andrews, could hold the key to more accurate flood prevention.
Apr 24, 2013
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Irrigation can give rise to increased precipitation
PhD candidate Obbe Tuinenburg defended his doctoral thesis on the 15th of April, 2013. His research related to the effects of large-scale irrigation in India on the atmosphere and rainfall. One of the conclusions ...
Apr 17, 2013
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Titan's methane: Going, going, soon to be gone?
(Phys.org) —By tracking a part of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan over several years, NASA's Cassini mission has found a remarkable longevity to the hydrocarbon lakes on the moon's surface.
Apr 16, 2013
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New technique measures evaporation globally
Researchers at Columbia Engineering and Boston University have developed the first method to map evaporation globally using weather stations, which will help scientists evaluate water resource management, assess recent trends ...
Apr 11, 2013
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Wet 2012 'catastrophic' for UK butterflies
Decreased water flow may be trade-off for more productive forest
Bubbling brooks and streams are a scenic and much loved feature of forest ecosystems, but long-term data at the U.S. Forest Service's Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest suggests that more productive forests ...
Mar 25, 2013
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A cold look at planet Earth: Learning from the world's frozen places
Water, the key to life, is also a key to understanding the way the natural world works. Water in the form of ice is especially instructive.
Feb 13, 2013
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Amazon freshwater ecosystems found vulnerable to degradation
A study published in Conservation Letters this week found that freshwater ecosystems in the Amazon are highly vulnerable to environmental degradation. River, lake and wetland ecosystems—encompassing approximately one-fi ...
Feb 04, 2013
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Fossilized conduits suggest water flowed beneath Martian Surface
(Phys.org)—Networks of narrow ridges found in impact craters on Mars appear to be the fossilized remnants of underground cracks through which water once flowed, according to a new analysis by researchers ...
Jan 29, 2013
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WISSARD team reaches subglacial Lake Whillans in Antarctica
(Phys.org)—This month is a turning point for ventures through recent years involving scientists trying to learn more about the buried lakes of the Antarctica. A team of scientists have been able to bore ...
Jan 28, 2013
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Improving flood predictions in developing nations
(Phys.org)—When deadly floodwaters devastated Pakistan in early September, Georgia Institute of Technology Professor Peter Webster and Research Associate Kristofer Shrestha weren't surprised. They had forecasted the disaster ...
Jan 09, 2013
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Cassini spots mini Nile River on Saturn moon Titan
(Phys.org)—The international Cassini mission has spotted what appears to be a miniature extraterrestrial version of the Nile River: a river valley on Saturn's moon Titan that stretches more than 400 km ...
Dec 12, 2012
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First rain on world's largest artificial watershed
Manmade hillsides inside the University of Arizona's Biosphere 2 provide researchers with the first opportunity to study how water, microbes, soil and plants interact in a setting realistic enough to improve ...
Dec 04, 2012
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Deforestation in snowy regions causes more floods
New research suggests that cutting down swaths of forest in snowy regions at least doubles – and potentially quadruples – the number of large floods that occur along the rivers and streams passing through ...
Oct 03, 2012
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