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ecosystems

FUTURE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS COULD CAUSE MORE CLIMATE DISRUPTION

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Major volcanic eruptions in the future have the potential to affect global temperatures and precipitation more dramatically than in the past because of climate change, according to a new study led by the N
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Researchers probe explosion in the number of pyrosomes off Alaska

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Researchers at NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center are reporting a never-before-seen phenomenon in Alaska waters—an influx of strange organisms that resemble flattened, translucent sea pickles. It may s
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Peatland Plants Adapting Well to Climate Change, Suggests Study

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent They account for just three per cent of the Earth’s surface but play a major role in offsetting carbon dioxide emissions – and now a team of scientists led by the universities of Southampton and Utrecht ha
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Tropical Forest Reserves Slow Down Global Warming

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent National parks and nature reserves in South America, Africa and Asia, created to protect wildlife, heritage sites and the territory of indigenous people, are reducing carbon emissions from tropical defores
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NOAA and partners assess coral reef damage in Florida following Hurricane Irma

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Recently, scientists from Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary joined other partners from NOAA and outside organizations to conduct a rapid assessment of the Florida Coral Reef Tract, including areas in
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How Aquaculture Is Threatening the Native Fish Species of Africa

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent In 1995, Adrian Piers, a veteran aquaculture consultant, imported a batch of Australian red claw crayfish to the tiny southern African monarchy of Swaziland. He began raising the attractive blue-green crus
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Living Close to Green Spaces is Associated with Better Attention in Children

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent How do green spaces affect cognitive development in children? A new study from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), an institute supported by “la Caixa” Foundation, concludes that children
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Deforestation Linked to Palm Oil Production is Making Indonesia Warmer

In the past decades, large areas of forest in Sumatra, Indonesia have been replaced by cash crops like oil palm and rubber plantations. New research, published in the European Geosciences Union journal Biogeosciences, shows that these changes in land use increase temperatures in the r
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Scavenging to survive below the seafloor

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Microorganisms living in the sediments buried below the seafloor obtain their nutrients by using secreted enzymes to degrade adsorbed detritus. A new study shows that in order to survive for long time scal
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Taste, Not Appearance, Drives Corals to Eat Plastics

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Scientists have long known that marine animals mistakenly eat plastic debris because the tiny bits of floating plastic might look like prey. But a new Duke University study of plastic ingestion by corals s
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