Photograph of the concentration flow cell. Two plates clamp the cell together, which contains two narrow channels fed with either synthetic freshwater or seawater through the plastic lines.
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Penn State researchers have...
A 'free-fall funnel', part of the drilling process.
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An international team of scientists has found evidence suggesting the dehydration of minerals deep below the ocean floor influenced the severity of the Sumatra earthquake, which took...
Diagnostic sensor applied to the exhaust of a car.
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An international team of researchers has uncovered the mechanism that allowed Volkswagen to circumvent U.S. and European emission tests over at least six years before the Environmental...
Okefenokee Swamp Wildfire Smoke rises from the wildfire burning across 150,000 acres of the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia and Florida.
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The wildfire that has raged across more than 150,000 acres of the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia and Florida has...
This study adds to previous evidence that air pollution causes oxidative stress, which can damage lipids, proteins, and DNA.
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Children and teens exposed to high levels of traffic-related air pollution have evidence of a specific...
Becky Alexander in the cold room of the UW's IsoLab with sections of an ice core. Her group is analyzing these samples from Antarctica to see if they show the same trend as the Greenland cores.
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Trees in cities have many benefits but can increase ozone during heat waves.
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Planting trees is a popular strategy to help make cities "greener," both literally and figuratively. But scientists have found a counterintuitive effect of...
Dam in Sabiñanigo town, Spain. There are currently in excess of 70,000 large dams worldwide. With the continuing construction of new dams, more than 90 per cent of the world's rivers will be fragmented by at least one dam...
Deforested land. Central American forests are giving way to pasture land for cattle ranches.
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Central American tropical forests are beginning to disappear at an alarming rate, threatening the livelihood of indigenous peoples there and endangering some of...
Far from being the pristine 'deserted island' that people might imagine of such a remote place, Henderson Island is a shocking but typical example of how plastic debris is affecting the environment on a global scale, say the researchers.
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In a series of paired interactions, the most competitive fungus was Phlebiopsis flavidoalba, which is the top fungus in the upper right corner of the photo. One of the least competitive was Armillaria tabescens (not shown), and one of...
