News tagged with water conditions
Plant hormone increases cotton yields in drought conditions
A naturally occurring class of plant hormones called cytokinins has been found to help increase cotton yields during drought conditions, according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists.
Mar 10, 2010 |
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Invading camels to be shot in Australian town
(AP) -- Australian authorities plan to corral about 6,000 wild camels with helicopters and gun them down after they overran a small Outback town in search of water, trampling fences, smashing tanks and contaminating ...
Nov 26, 2009 |
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Green heating and cooling technology turns carbon from eco-villain to hero
Carbon is usually typecast as a villain in terms of the environment but researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a novel way to miniaturise a technology that will make carbon a key material in ...
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Human Impacts and Environmental Factors Are Changing the Northwest Atlantic Ecosystem
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fish in U.S. waters from Cape Hatteras to the Canadian border have moved away from their traditional, long-time habitats over the past four decades because of fundamental changes in the regional ...
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Annual Tahoe Report Says Asian Clam Invasion Is Growing Fast
(PhysOrg.com) -- Released today, UC Davis' annual Lake Tahoe health report describes a spreading Asian clam population that could put sharp shells and rotting algae on the spectacular mountain lake's popular ...
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Harbingers of increased Atlantic hurricane activity identified
Reconstructions of past hurricane activity in the Atlantic Ocean indicate that the most active hurricane period in the past was during the "Medieval Climate Anomaly" about a thousand years ago when climate ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 12, 2009 |
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Yellow submarine to try again for Atlantic glide
(AP) -- A second try is about to get under way at sending a little yellow submarine gliding across the Atlantic Ocean to collect scientific data from beneath the waves.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 19, 2009 |
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Ancient ecosystem thrives millions of years below Antarctic glacier
(PhysOrg.com) -- A reservoir of briny liquid buried deep beneath an Antarctic glacier supports hardy microbes that have lived in isolation for millions of years, researchers report this week in the journal ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 16, 2009 |
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Silica algae reveal how ecosystems react to climate changes
A newly published dissertation by Linda Ampel from the Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology at Stockholm University in Sweden examined how rapid climate changes during the most recent ice ...
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Study Finds 'Pre-Existing Condition' Fueled Killer Cyclone
(PhysOrg.com) -- A "pre-existing condition" in the North Indian Ocean stoked the sudden intensification of last year's Tropical Cyclone Nargis just before its devastating landfall in Burma, according to a ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 26, 2009 |
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Great Lakes water level sensitive to climate change
The water level in the Great Lakes has varied by only about two meters during the last century, helping them to play a vital role in the region's shipping, fishing, recreation and power generation industries.
Jan 13, 2009 |
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