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ecosystems

Sensors Applied to Plant Leaves Warn of Water Shortage

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Forgot to water that plant on your desk again? It may soon be able to send out an SOS. MIT engineers have created sensors that can be printed onto plant leaves and reveal when the plants are experiencing a
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Dozens of New Wildlife Corridors Identified for African Mammals

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have identified 52 potential wildlife corridors linking protected areas across Tanzania. Using a cost-effective combination of interviews with local resi
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Reforestation: Knowing When to Let Nature Take its Course

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent The study, which concluded that active interventions are not always the best route for forest regeneration, was published today in Science Advances. There is currently a global effort to pledge 350 million
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Use of Glow Sticks in Traps Greatly Increases Amphibian Captures in Study

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent With amphibian populations declining around the world and funds to find the causes scarce, a team of Penn State researchers has shown that an unorthodox tactic will make it easier and therefore less expens
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With Climate Change, Mount Rainier Floral Communities Could 'Reassemble' With New Species Relationships, Interactions

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Central to the field of ecology is the mantra that species do not exist in isolation: They assemble in communities — and within these communities, species interact. Predators hunt prey. Parasites exploit h
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Hot News from the Antarctic Underground

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Although the heat source isn’t a new or increasing threat to the West Antarctic ice sheet, it may help explain why the ice sheet collapsed rapidly in an earlier era of rapid climate change, and why i
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Eyes on the Coast—Video Cameras Help Forecast Coastal Change

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Coastal communities count on beaches for recreation and for protection from large waves, but beaches are vulnerable to threats such as erosion by storms and flooding. Whether beaches grow, shrink, or even
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Easing the Soil's Temperature

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Soil characteristics like organic matter content and moisture play a vital role in helping plants flourish. It turns out that soil temperature is just as important. Every plant needs a certain soil tempera
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G7 on Health, Science Suggests Global Action to Reduce the Impact of Climate on Health

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Decisions that will be taken at the G7 Ministerial Meeting on Health that will be open by Minister Beatrice Lorenzin tomorrow in Milan have followed an intense dialogue with the international scientific co
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Briny Pool Bacteria Can Clean Up and Power Up

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Warm and salty wastewater is a by-product of many industries, including oil and gas production, seafood processing and textile dyeing. KAUST researchers are exploring ways to detoxify such wastewater while
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