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ecosystems

NOAA research holds promise of predicting snowpack before snow falls

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent As farmers in the American West decide what, when and where to plant, and urban water managers plan for water needs in the next year, they want to know how much water their community will get from melting
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Plastic in the Oceans Increasing Risk of Disease in Coral Reefs

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent More than 11 billion pieces of plastic are lodged within coral reefs in the Asia-Pacific region. According to a new study published in the journal Science, as this plastic gets tangled, it often cuts the c
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New study examines the causes and consequences of the 2015 Wimberley floods

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent On Memorial Day weekend in 2015, the Blanco River rose to a record 40 feet. The swift rise of the water is known as a flash flood, a term familiar to Texans. The Texas Hill Country, where Wimberly is locat
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Research Finds Discrepancies Between Satellite and Global Model Estimates of Land Water Storage

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Research led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that calculations of water storage in many river basins from commonly used global computer models differ markedly from independent storage estima
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Century of data shows sea-level rise shifting tides in Delaware, Chesapeake bays

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent For the first time, an international team has found evidence of how sea-level rise already is affecting high and low tides in both the Chesapeake and Delaware bays, two large estuaries of the eastern Unite
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New study reveals how icy surface ponds on Himalayan glaciers influence water flow

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Writing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, a publication of the American Geophysical Union, a team of glaciologists led by Aberystwyth University in Wales have shown that the ponds, which form on
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Nearly Half of California's Vegetation at Risk From Climate Stress

Current levels of greenhouse gas emissions are putting nearly half of California’s natural vegetation at risk from climate stress, with transformative implications for the state’s landscape and the people and animals that depend on it, according to a study led by the University of Cal
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Think Of Honeybees As 'Livestock' Not Wildlife, Argue Experts

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent The ‘die-off’ events occurring in honeybee colonies that are bred and farmed like livestock must not be confused with the conservation crisis of dramatic declines in thousands of wild pollinator species, s
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Oceanic plastic trash conveys disease to coral reefs

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent “Plastic debris acts like a marine motor home for microbes,” said the study’s lead author, Joleah Lamb, a postdoctoral research fellow at Cornell. She began collecting this data as a doctoral candidate at
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The Big Picture of Great Lakes Mercury Pollution

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Mercury is a widespread environmental toxicant and pollutant that travels up the food chain onto people’s dinner plates. Although a global issue, mercury regulations vary worldwide. Depending on wher
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