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ecosystems

How to Help Californians Affected by the North Bay Wildfires

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Fast-moving wildfires are devastating parts of Northern California, including Sonoma and Napa Counties, just north of the Bay Area. Victims — and their animals — displaced by evacuation orders and property
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Improving Lake Erie's Water Quality

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent The conditions in Lake Erie continue to pose several health risks to Ohioans in coastal communities, making it difficult to maintain good water quality for citizens, state and local policymakers. Working i
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Best way to save the caribou? Look at white-tailed deer and moose

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent The most effective way to save North America’s dwindling caribou herds is to keep numbers of invading prey animals—like deer and moose—low, according to a new UAlberta research study. “Prey like moose and
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Microbes Dictate Regime Shifts Causing Anoxia in Lakes and Seas

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Gradual environmental changes due to eutrophication and global warming can cause a rapid depletion of oxygen levels in lakes and coastal waters. A new study led by professors Jef Huisman and Gerard Muyzer
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Heating Dirt Could Cause a Runaway Rise in Carbon Emissions

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Tucked into the apple-growing hills of Western Massachusetts is the Harvard Forest, a 3,700-acre wooded preserve that hosts school kids on field trips, day-tripping hikers, and, for more than a quarter cen
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What Earth's climate system and topological insulators have in common

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Topological insulators, materials that insulate on the inside but conduct electricity along their outer edges, have created quite a buzz in condensed matter physics. Now a new study in the journal Science
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Clear Lakes Disguise Impaired Water Quality

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Looks can be deceiving. Look at a hundred lakes in the agricultural heartland of the United States and you will likely see green lakes surrounded by green fields. The nitrogen and phosphorus in agricultura
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Conservationists' Eco-Footprints Suggest Education Alone Won't Change Behaviour

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Conservationists work to save the planet, and few are as knowledgeable when it comes to the environmental pressures of the Anthropocene. However, the first wide-ranging study to compare the environmental f
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Soil Holds Potential to Slow Global Warming, Stanford Researchers Find

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent If you want to do something about global warming, look under your feet. Managed well, soil’s ability to trap carbon dioxide is potentially much greater than previously estimated, according to Stanford rese
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Australia Experiences Surge in Deforestation

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Nearly 1 million acres of trees were cut down in Queensland, Australia from 2015 to 2016, representing a 33 percent rise in deforestation, according to a new government land survey. Tree-loss, driven prima
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