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Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent The arrival 36 years ago of a strange bird to a remote island in the Galápagos archipelago has provided direct genetic evidence of a novel way in which new species arise. On Nov. 23 in the journal Science,

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Foraging is a centuries-old practice, but many of the mushrooms in British Columbia are just now being identified through DNA sequencing and the enthusiasm of amateur collectors. Mary Berbee, a professor i

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent It’s no secret that human activities affect fish, particularly those that must migrate to reproduce. Years of building dams and polluting rivers in some regions have left fish such as salmon struggling to

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent In the underground rivers and flooded caves of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, where Mayan lore described a fantastical underworld, scientists have found a cryptic world in its own right. Here, methane and the

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Active components on buildings such as blinds whose design was copied from naturally occurring solutions — that is the subject of the research conducted by a team from the Technical University of Munich (T

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent A new study from UBC’s Okanagan campus has found that BMAA—a toxin linked to several neurodegenerative diseases—is present in high concentrations during cyanobacteria blooms in Lake Winnipeg. “Cyanobacteri

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Environmental satellites are a forecaster’s best friend. Orbiting high above the planet, these “eyes in the sky” watch for extreme weather and climate conditions that threaten lives and property. But meteo

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent   Studies on mild fluctuations in weather have provided support for the idea that higher biodiversity results in more stable functioning of ecosystems, but critical appraisal of the evidence from extreme e

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent High in the snowfields atop the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, things are not as pristine as they used to be. Dust from the desert Southwest is sailing into the Rockies in increasing quantities and settling

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Nearly a third of the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere annually can be traced back to bacteria living in the soil, where they break down plant and animal matter for energy. For most soil microbe