Imagine "carbon emissions", and what springs to mind? Most people tend to think of power stations belching out clouds of carbon dioxide or queues of vehicles burning up fossil fuels as they crawl, bumper-to-bumper, along ...
Environment
Feb 26, 2019
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More saltwater in the Everglades could make climate change worse, a new Florida International University study found.
Environment
Oct 31, 2018
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Are we restoring the Everglades just so the ocean can swallow a lot of it back up? Eighteen years into the multibillion-dollar restoration of the Everglades, a scientific review committee called Wednesday for a broad re-examination ...
Environment
Oct 18, 2018
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This is a story about a future president who tried to drain a swamp, and government workers who are making it wet again.
Environment
Oct 11, 2017
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Increasing the water table could help to slow down global warming, boost crop yields, and preserve peat soils according to a new study.
Environment
Feb 6, 2017
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Utilizing microcosms of peat soil, researchers mimicked naturally fluctuating conditions to study sulfate-reducing microbes and how they regulate methane production in peat microbial communities.
Environment
Jun 21, 2016
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Imagine a two-hour boat ride through the dark waters of the Mendaram River, a humid hike through flooded forest floors, and weeklong camp outs without Internet or phone access.
Environment
Feb 29, 2016
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Researchers from Radboud University Nijmegen and B-WARE Research Centre have discovered new methane-consuming bacteria in the soil beneath the Brunssummerheide peatland reserve in Limburg, the Netherlands. Although the bacteria ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 19, 2012
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Continued expansion of industrial-scale oil palm plantations on the island of Borneo will become a leading cause of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 unless strong forest and peatland protections are enacted and enforced, ...
Environment
Apr 26, 2012
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The earth rippled and squirmed on this Delta island Monday. It did not yawn open, but did reignite a debate about the seismic safety of levees in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Earth Sciences
Sep 2, 2011
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