Scientists from the University of Amsterdam are warning that problems with toxic cyanobacteria are likely to increase in the future. In an article in the journal Science Advances, they show that a common cyanobacterium adapts ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 20, 2020
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Even under modest climate warming scenarios, the continental United States faces a significant loss of groundwater—about 119 million cubic meters, or roughly enough to fill Lake Powell four times or one quarter of Lake ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 13, 2020
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Russia and one in France has found a possible explanation for the creation of ice circles in Lake Baikal—the deepest lake in the world. In their paper published ...
A team of researchers from the University of Oklahoma, Virginia Tech and the University of Notre Dame has found that populations of mayflies in parts of North America have fallen dramatically in recent years. In their paper ...
Every drop of fresh water contains thousands of different organic molecules that have previously gone unnoticed. By measuring the diversity of these molecules and how they interact with the environment around them, research ...
Environment
Nov 18, 2019
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A research team led by the University of Basel and the Université de Montréal examined how the ongoing climate warming affects the "behavior" of lakes. The researchers found out why, in near-bottom waters, lakes may even ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 9, 2019
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A new global study of how calcium concentrations are changing in freshwater lakes around the world has revealed that in widespread areas in Europe and eastern North America, calcium levels are declining towards levels that ...
Environment
Aug 6, 2019
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Melting Himalayan glaciers are releasing decades of accumulated pollutants into downstream ecosystems, according to a new study.
Earth Sciences
Aug 1, 2019
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Near the deepest spot in Lake Michigan, the crew aboard the research vessel Blue Heron lowers a device outfitted with a cluster of 8-liter bottles into the dark blue waters until it disappears from sight.
Ecology
Jul 12, 2019
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Changes in temperature and precipitation have already impacted the amount of nitrogen introduced into U.S. waterways, according to new research from a team of three Carnegie ecologists published this week in Environmental ...
Environment
Apr 24, 2019
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