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ecosystems

As climate warms, mice morph

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent New research by McGill University biologists shows that milder winters have led to physical alterations in two species of mice in southern Quebec in the past 50 years – providing a textbook example of the
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Radioactivity Lingers from 1946-1958 Nuclear Bomb Tests

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Scientists have found lingering radioactivity in the lagoons of remote Marshall Island atolls in the Pacific Ocean where the United States conducted 66 nuclear weapons tests in the 1940s and 1950s.  Radioa
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Cranberry Growers Tart on Phosphorus

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent At Thanksgiving, many Americans look forward to eating roast turkey, pumpkin pie, and tangy red cranberries. To feed that appetite, cranberry farming is big business. In Massachusetts, cranberries are the
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SMU seismology research shows North Texas earthquakes occurring on “dead” faults

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Recent earthquakes in the Fort Worth Basin – in the rural community of Venus and the Dallas suburb of Irving – occurred on faults that had not been active for at least 300 million years, according to resea
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In Harm's Way

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent How safe is the water you drink? For the 45 million Americans who get their drinking water from private groundwater wells rather than a public utility, the answer is decidedly murky. The Environmental Prot
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Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula Reveals a Cryptic Methane-Fueled Ecosystem

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
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Where Corn Is King, the Stirrings of a Renaissance in Small Grains

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent To the untrained eye, Jeremy Gustafson’s 1,600-acre farm looks like all the others spread out across Iowa. Gazing at his conventional corn and soybean fields during a visit in June, I was hard-pressed to s
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Brazilian Ethanol Can Replace 13.7% of World's Crude Oil Consumption

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Expansion of sugarcane cultivation in Brazil for ethanol production in areas not under environmental protection or reserved for food production could potentially replace up to 13.7% of world crude oil cons
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'Lost' 99% of Ocean Microplastics to be Identified With Dye?

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Smallest microplastics in oceans – which go largely undetected – identified more effectively with innovative and cheap new method, developed by University of Warwick researchers New method can detect
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UBC Study Finds Family-Friendly Overpasses are Needed to Help Grizzly Bears

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Researchers have determined how female grizzly bears keep their cubs safe while crossing the Trans-Canada Highway. Adam Ford, Canada Research Chair in Wildlife Restoration Ecology at UBC’s Okanagan campus,
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