Mapping the benefits of the world's largest lakes
Fresh water is the most important substance on Earth, but it isn't equally distributed across the plant.
Environment
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Vanishing ice puts reindeer herders at risk
Deep in the Sayan Mountains of northern Mongolia, patches of ice rest year-round in the crooks between hills.
Archaeology
Nov 20, 2019
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Water war shifts to southwest Georgia as Florida takes aim at farmers
Christopher Worsham's 5,000-acre family farm produces a sweet corn crop twice a year that's sold fresh at grocery stores across the U.S. and Canada, made possible by southwest Georgia's warm climate and water irrigated from ...
Environment
Nov 7, 2019
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How the Aztecs could improve modern urban farming
Roland Ebel of the Sustainable Food Systems Program at Montana State University conducted a research project to determine the extent to which an ancient Aztec agricultural technique could benefit 21st century horticultural ...
Environment
Nov 1, 2019
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Putting the Water Framework Directive to the test
The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) is one of the most progressive regulatory frameworks for water management worldwide. Questioning its objectives and principles would seriously compromise the effective protection ...
Environment
Oct 29, 2019
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Research reveals harmful algal blooms' daily cycles
In new NSF-funded research, scientists at the Great Lakes Center for Fresh Waters and Human Health show that, as in the rest of life, timing is everything. Published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology, their recent ...
Ecology
Oct 22, 2019
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Research reveals harmful algal blooms' daily cycles
In new NSF-funded research, scientists at the Great Lakes Center for Fresh Waters and Human Health show that, as in the rest of life, timing is everything. Published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology, their recent ...
Ecology
Oct 22, 2019
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Scientists find early humans moved through Mediterranean earlier than believed
An international research team led by scientists from McMaster University has unearthed new evidence in Greece proving that the island of Naxos was inhabited by Neanderthals and earlier humans at least 200,000 years ago, ...
Archaeology
Oct 16, 2019
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Warm ocean water attacking edges of Antarctica's ice shelves
Upside-down "rivers" of warm ocean water are eroding the fractured edges of thick, floating Antarctic ice shelves from below, helping to create conditions that lead to ice-shelf breakup and sea-level rise, according to a ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 9, 2019
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A 2-kilometer freshwater journey to food security: Zambian farmers benefit from tree preservation
While some communities in Central Province of Zambia are resorting to cutting down trees as an alternative source of energy, a group of young farmers in Serenje District of the same province has vowed to keep trees around ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 27, 2019
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