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Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Concerns about biodiversity tend to focus on the loss of species from ecosystems, but a new study suggests that the loss of variation within species can also have important ecological consequences. Many sp

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent A compound found in seaweed could protect human skin from the damaging impact of the sun without causing harm to marine ecosystems.  The use of sunscreens is advocated to prevent sun damage, but most formu

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Some avian influenza, or bird flu, viruses that are able to enter North America from other continents through migrating birds can be deadly to poultry and can infect waterfowl populations, according to a r

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Ecologist Lindsey Rustad sculpts ice forests. She’s not a sculptor by trade, but in her latest ecology experiment, her team sprayed water over a portion of forest during the coldest part of the night. With

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Detailed global maps of key traits in higher plants have been made available for the first time, thanks to work led by researchers from the University of Minnesota’s (UMN) College of Food, Agriculture and

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent About 40 percent of northern Malaysian Borneo’s carbon stocks exist in forests that are not designated for maximum protections, according to new remote sensing and satellite mapping from Carnegie’s Greg As

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent NASA’s Terra satellite passed over the Arabian Sea on Dec. 4 and found Tropical Cyclone Ockhi moving north as desert dust pushed into the region north of the storm. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Sp

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent One of Africa’s last remaining wilderness areas is in good shape and could potentially support 50,000 elephants and 1000 lions, a University of Queensland-led study has found. Niassa National Reserve is Mo

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent An estimated 13,000 historic sites could be lost or damaged in the southeastern United States with just 3 feet of sea level rise, according to a new study by a team of archaeologists published in the journ

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have identified a common set of genes that enable different drought-resistant plants to survive in semi-arid conditions, which could p