ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Borneo deforested 30 percent over past 40 years Posted: 16 Jul 2014 11:13 AM PDT Forest cover in Borneo may have declined by up to 30% over the past 40 years, according to a new study. he native forests of Borneo have been increasingly impacted …
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Expedition yields unexpected clues to ocean mysteries
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Expedition yields unexpected clues to ocean mysteries Posted: 03 Dec 2013 04:11 PM PST Geoscientists have revealed new discoveries about Earth’s development, following a major international expedition that recovered the first-ever drill core from the lower crust of the Pacific Ocean. Antarctic fjords are …
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Pacific Ocean temperature influences tornado activity in US
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Pacific Ocean temperature influences tornado activity in US Posted: 17 Oct 2013 02:40 PM PDT A researcher has found that the temperature of the Pacific Ocean could help scientists predict the type and location of tornado activity in the US. Unique skull find rebuts …
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News : Frogs, salamanders and climate change
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Frogs, salamanders and climate change Reading rock to understand how climate change unfolds Invasive species: ‘away-field advantage’ weaker than ecologists thought Frogs, salamanders and climate change Posted: 18 May 2013 12:37 PM PDT Increasingly erratic rainfall patterns can lead to declines in southeastern frog and salamander …
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: More hurricanes for Hawaii?
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News More hurricanes for Hawaii? As climate changes, boreal forests to shift north and relinquish more carbon than expected New cost-effective genome assembly process Brighter clouds, cooler climate? Organic vapors affect clouds, leading to previously unidentified climate cooling Global highways of invasive marine species calculated More …
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Studying meteorites may reveal Mars’ secrets of life
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Studying meteorites may reveal Mars’ secrets of life Startling survival story at historic Jamestown: Physical evidence of survival cannibalism Soil may harbor answer to reducing arsenic in rice Health defects found in fish exposed to Deepwater Horizon oil spill, three years later Seahorse’s armor gives engineers …
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News :Genetic analysis saves major apple-producing region of Washington state
ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Genetic analysis saves major apple-producing region of Washington state Acoustic monitoring of Atlantic cod reveals clues to spawning behavior Computer simulations yield clues to how cells interact with surroundings When a gene is worth two: Same gene fulfills different biological roles in plants Invasive species: Understanding …
Density of invasive reed, Phragmites australis, mapped in Great Lakes
Density of invasive reed, Phragmites australis, mapped in Great Lakes Posted: 17 Dec 2012 01:25 PM PST Scientists have used satellite technologies to map the location and density of Phragmites australis, an invasive species of reed, in the coastal wetlands of all five Great Lakes. Scientists decode three bacterial strains …