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Ecology May 12, 2025

Clear waters, hidden toxins: Viruses that combat algal blooms may actually increase risks for people and ecosystems

New laboratory research shows that when viruses attack a species that forms toxic algal blooms, those thick, blue-green slicks that choke waterways and that threaten ecosystems, drinking water, and public health, what results ...

Environment Apr 30, 2025

Cyanobacteria culprit behind Lake Erie's toxin uncovered in new study

In the warm summertime waters of Lake Erie, cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, can proliferate out of control, creating algal blooms that produce toxins at a rate that can harm wildlife and human health.

Environment Apr 8, 2025

Rivers are increasingly being given legal rights

A district council in England has passed a motion to grant its local river the rights to flow freely, to be free from pollution and to enjoy its native biodiversity. The move by Lewes District Council in East Sussex to recognize ...

Astronomy Mar 22, 2025

Webb telescope directly observes exoplanet CO₂ for first time

The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first time, scientists announced Monday.

Astronomy Mar 17, 2025

JWST captures its first direct images of carbon dioxide outside solar system

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a key target for planet formation ...

Analytical Chemistry Mar 11, 2025

DNL-17: Researchers synthesize small-pore aluminophosphate molecular sieve for selective adsorption, energy storage

Aluminophosphate (AlPO) molecular sieves (MSs) are crystalline microporous materials made from alternating PO4 tetrahedra and AlO4 tetrahedra, forming ordered channel systems and cage-like structures.

Environment Feb 24, 2025

Will Lake Erie completely freeze over?

Lake Erie, the shallowest of the five Great Lakes, last froze over in 1996.

Ecology Feb 3, 2025

Green is the new black: Study sheds light on reforestation and post-fire recovery

Post-fire tree planting significantly accelerates forest recovery in burned areas, increasing regrowth rates by 25.7%.

Environment Jan 30, 2025

Examining the economic impacts of aquatic dead zones

A West Virginia University researcher is working to understand and estimate environmental cleanup costs associated with agricultural runoff that causes polluted "dead zones" in downstream coastal systems.

Ecology Jan 21, 2025

Looking to Kenya's Lake Victoria and cyanobacteria for what may come for Lake Erie

To try to understand how harmful algal blooms might evolve in Lake Erie in a warming climate, University of Michigan scientists helped conduct a survey of cyanobacteria in a gulf of Kenya's Lake Victoria.

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