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Environment News tagged with study

UK Nitrogen Feeds Bacteria in the Arctic
Environment  (tags: climate, environment, Study, Arctic, bacteria )

Katie
- 5 days ago - planetearth.nerc.ac.uk
A mass of air laden with industrial nitrogen pollution may be hardly noticed in Britain, but it can cause a flurry of activity in bacteria living in extreme environments as far as the Arctic Svalbard archipelago, north of Norway.
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Amazon's Low Salt Content Keeps Carbon Emissions at Bay
Environment  (tags: News, study, world, amazon, Amazon Rainforest, carbon emissions )

Katie
- 13 days ago - news.preview.nationalgeographic.com
Supposedly the most robust of the world's rain forests, the Amazon jungle suffers from "chronic malnutrition" due to a lack of salt, according to the lead scientist behind a new study.
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Climate Change Study Shows Earth Is Still Absorbing Carbon Dioxide
Environment  (tags: Study, climate-change, world, CO2emissions, greenhousegases )

Katie
- 13 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The research, by Bristol University, suggests that despite rising emissions, the world is is still able to store a significant amount of greenhouse gases in oceans and forests.
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Sea Lion Brain Mapped to Study Toxins' Effects
Environment  (tags: Study, researchers, wildlife, oceans, Ocean lion, effects )

Katie
- 19 days ago - dsc.discovery.com
Mapping the California sea lion's brain with a combination of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and volumetric measuring, scientists want to better understand how toxins in the water are causing neurological damage among marine mammal populations.
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Half of World's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Caused By Livestock
Environment  (tags: environment, animals, report, study )

Katie
- 21 days ago - ecoworldly.com
According to a new report published by the Worldwatch Institute, global emissions caused by the "lifecycle and supply chain of animals raised for food" are much higher than previously thought.
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Volcanic Eruptions Caused Ancient Warming And Cooling
Environment  (tags: environment, study, reports, volcano, volcano eruptions, cooling trend )

Katie
- 25 days ago - livescience.com
Volcanic eruptions were responsible for a deadly ice age 450 million years ago, as well as -- in an ironic twist -- a period of global warming that preceded it, a new study finds.
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Arctic Lake Sediments Show Warming, Unique Ecological Changes In Recent Decades
Environment  (tags: environment, arctic lake, ice melting, study, report )

Katie
- 26 days ago - sciencedaily.com
An analysis of sediment cores indicates that biological and chemical changes occurring at a remote Arctic lake are unprecedented over the past 200,000 years and likely are the result of human-caused climate change, according to a new study.....
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West Antarctic Ice Sheet May Not Be Losing Ice As Fast As Once Thought
Environment  (tags: global warming, antarctic, ice melting, study )

Katie
- 34 days ago - sciencedaily.com
New ground measurements made by the West Antarctic GPS Network (WAGN) project, composed of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, The Ohio State University, and The University of Memphis, suggest the rate of ice loss of the West Antarctic ice
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Ancient Rainforests Resilient To Climate Change
Environment  (tags: environment, ecosystems, globalwarming, habitat, habitatdestruction, nature, climate, investigation, science, research, study, discovery, ancient, rainforests )

Tom
- 49 days ago - sciencedaily.com
These discoveries radically change our understanding of the Earth's first rainforests. We used to think these were stable ecosystems, unchanged for tens of millions of years. Now we know they were incredibly dynamic, constantly buffeted by climate change.
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Earth's Biogeochemical Cycles, Once In Concert, Falling Out Of Sync
Environment  (tags: environment, ClimateChange, acid rain, destruction, endangered, globalwarming, water, oceans, habitat destruction, Earth, biology, geology, chemistry science, research, study, scientists )

Dee
- 112 days ago - sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily- What do the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone," global climate change, and acid rain have in common? They're all a result of human impacts to Earth's biology, chemistry and geology, and the natural cycles that involve all three.
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Love Songs Of Bowhead Whales: Whales Sings With 'More Than One Voice'
Environment  (tags: Science, whales, bowhead, songs, research, study, discovery, performance, interesting, globalwarming )

Dee
- 113 days ago - sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (Aug. 3, 2009)-It wasn't that many years ago that the bowhead whale was written off as extinct in the waters around Greenland and especially in Disko Bay in northwest Greenland where University of Copenhagen has its Arctic Field Station.
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Greenpeace Says Big Brands Destroying Rainforest
Environment  (tags: Brazil, amazon, rainforest, deforestation, animals, destruction, cattle, fires, burning, pollution, CO2emissions, environment, globalwarming, ecosystems, humans, nature, wildlife, trees, Sustainabililty, conservation, climatechange, research, study )

Tom
- 153 days ago - environmentalleader.com
The expansion of Brazil's cattle sector is driving the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and threatens to undermine Brazil's pledge to cut deforestation by 72 percent by 2018. The cattle industry is the largest source of deforestation in the world.
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Worst Environmental Problem? Overpopulation, Experts Say
Environment  (tags: environment, overpopulation, ClimateChange, humans, habitat, pollution, research, study )

Dee
- 217 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Overpopulation is the world's top environmental issue, followed closely by climate change and the need to develop renewable energy resources to replace fossil fuels, according to a survey of the faculty at the SUNY College of Environmental Science---
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Forests Could Turn Against Us In Climate Change Battle
Environment  (tags: forests, world, science, scientists, research, report, study, environment, news, ecosystems, earth, climate, climatechange, globalwarming, humans, tech, ClimateChange, CO2emissions, conservation, destruction, globalwarming, nature )

SirRobert
- 219 days ago - canada.com
The world's forests have long been considered a critical ally in the battle against climate change, but new scientific reports have revealed more bad news!
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Photos: Five Global Warming "Tipping Points"
Environment  (tags: climate-change, global-warming, climate, weather, science, tech, technology, research, study, earth, world, photos, news, humans, wildlife, environment, habitat destruction, endangered, species, tipping-points, nature, oceans, ecosystems )

SirRobert
- 251 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
National Geographic reveals photos of five global warming 'tipping points', and their corresponding ramifications upon our global environment according to current scientific opinion.
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