A young man breathes deeply from a gas-filled bag. He begins to feel a pleasurable sensation "particularly in the chest and extremities" before dancing around and then collapsing in a heap. A few minutes later he comes to ...
Environment
Apr 20, 2023
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The USDA's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) promotes sustainable agricultural practices to improve habitat, soil and water quality. It may have an unintended benefit of improving air quality, too, according to new research ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 12, 2022
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The COVID-19-related lockdowns granted scientists an unexpected and detailed glimpse as to how human activities impact atmospheric composition.
Planetary Sciences
Jun 24, 2022
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"Based on field experiments with increased carbon dioxide concentration, artificial warming, and modified water supply, scientists understand quite well how future climate change will affect grassland vegetation. Such knowledge ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 24, 2021
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The presence of high salt and nitrogen concentrations in high-tunnel soils may make it more challenging to rebuild a healthy soil microbiome following a soil-clearing event, according to microbial ecologists in Penn State's ...
Environment
Feb 11, 2021
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Corals have evolved over millennia to live, and even thrive, in waters with few nutrients. In healthy reefs, the water is often exceptionally clear, mainly because corals have found ways to make optimal use of the few resources ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 8, 2021
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Philosopher Nicholas Rescher once wrote, "Scientific discoveries are often made not on the basis of some well-contrived plan of investigation, but through some stroke of sheer luck."
Astronomy
Apr 21, 2020
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As the global population has exploded over the last century, nitrogen has become one of the most common water contaminants in the world.
Environment
Dec 13, 2018
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The goal to offset rises in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations by increasing soil carbon storage by 4 per mille (0.4%) per year is unrealistic, say scientists from The Netherlands, The United Kingdom and the United ...
Environment
Apr 21, 2017
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Good news - the quality of water in the Illinois River has improved in one important aspect. A new study from the University of Illinois reports that nitrate load in the Illinois River from 2010 to 2014 was 10 percent less ...
Environment
May 10, 2016
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