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ecosystems

Less predictable precipitation

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent For Californians from Crescent City to Chula Vista, the second week of 2018 brought rain showers. Was it merely a fluke in the middle of an ongoing dry spell, or does it mean we’re on the verge of another
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Rise in severity of hottest days outpaces global average temperature increase

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent While our planet’s average annual temperature has increased at a steady pace in recent decades, there has been an alarming jump in the severity of the hottest days of the year during that same period, with
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Record Jump in 2014-2016 Temps Largest Since 1900

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Global surface temperatures surged by a record amount from 2014 to 2016, boosting the total amount of warming since the start of the last century by more than 25 percent in just three years, according to n
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Missing in Action

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Once abundant in Southern California, the foothill yellow-legged frog inexplicably vanished from the region sometime between the late 1960s and early 1970s. The reasons behind its rapid extinction have bee
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Saving Sharks With Trees: Researchers Aim To Save Key Branches Of Shark And Ray Tree Of Life

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent To shine light on and conserve rare shark, ray, and chimaera species (chondrichthyans), SFU researchers have developed a fully-resolved family tree and ranked every species according to the unique evolutio
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Tracking Wastewater's Path to Wells, Groundwater

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent We often “flush it and forget it” when it comes to waste from toilets and sinks. However, it’s important to be able to track this wastewater to ensure it doesn’t end up in unwanted places. A group of Canad
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Researchers Use Wild Rice to Predict Health of Minnesota Lakes and Streams

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent By studying wild rice in lakes and streams, a team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota has discovered that sulfate in waterways is converted into toxic levels of sulfide and increases other h
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Cougars Officially Declared Extinct in Eastern U.S., Removed from Endangered Species List

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Eastern cougars once roamed every U.S. state east of the Mississippi, but it has been eight decades since the last confirmed sighting of the animal. Now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has officially d
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Vaccines not protecting farmed fish from disease

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent The vaccines used by commercial fish farmers are not protecting fish from disease, according to a new study. The study was compiled by researchers at the University of Waterloo, the Pontifical Catholic Uni
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Climate change linked to more flowery tropical forests, FSU study shows

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent New research from a Florida State University scientist has revealed a surprising relationship between surging atmospheric carbon dioxide and flower blooms in a remote tropical forest. FSU researchers study
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