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ecosystems

Texas' odds of Harvey-scale rainfall to increase by end of century

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent As the city of Houston continues to recover and rebuild following the historic flooding unleashed by Hurricane Harvey, the region will also have to prepare for a future in which storms of Harvey’s magnitud
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VIMS study identifies tipping point for oyster restoration

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent We’re all familiar with tipping points, when crossing what might seem a minor threshold can lead to drastically different outcomes—the Super Bowl favorite that falls to last place with injury to a single l
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Climate change, sparse policies endanger right whale population

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent North Atlantic right whales – a highly endangered species making modest population gains in the past decade – may be imperiled by warming waters and insufficient international protection, according to a ne
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Research shows ice sheets as large as Greenland's melted fast in a warming climate

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent New research published in Science shows that climate warming reduced the mass of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet by half in as little as 500 years, indicating the Greenland Ice Sheet could have a similar fate. T
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Melting ice sheets will have global impact on ocean tides

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent The new results show that sea level does not increase uniformly across the globe in response to melting of the polar ice sheets. In fact, sea level changes in response to ice loss are highly spatially vari
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Global carbon dioxide emissions projected to rise after three stable years

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent By the end of 2017, global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels and industry are projected to rise by about 2% compared with the preceding year, with an uncertainty range between 0.8% and 3%. The
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Climate-influenced changes in flowering, fruiting also affect bird abundance, activities

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent “You are what you eat” might give way to “you are when you eat,” based on a new study tracking shifts in Hawaiian bird abundance, breeding and molting based on climate-related chang
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Atmospheric rivers could increase flood risk by 80 per cent

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent The global effect and impact of atmospheric rivers on rainfall, flooding and droughts has been estimated for the first time – revealing that in some regions the risks can be enhanced by up to 80 percent. T
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Changing climate to bring more landslides on logged land WSU research shows

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent In a study modelled on clear-cut lands on the Olympic Peninsula, they anticipate the climate of 2045 and conclude that there will be a 7-11 percent increase in the land that is highly vulnerable to landsli
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Baltic Clams and Worms Release as Much Greenhouse Gas as 20 000 Dairy Cows

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Worms and clams enhance the release of methane up to eight times more compared to sea bottoms without animals, shows a study by scientists at Stockholm University and Cardiff University. Sea bottoms discha
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