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Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Major floods and droughts receive a lot of attention in the context of climate change, but University of Illinois researchers analyzed over five decades of precipitation data from North America to find tha

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Tapping into the public’s passion for the ocean environment could be the key to reducing the threats posed to it by plastic pollution, a new report suggests. Millions of tons of plastic particles accumulat

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent A discovery by Indiana University researchers could advance the long-term storage of nuclear waste, an increasingly burdensome and costly task for the public and private agencies that protect people from t

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Polygons are widespread  in nature: Drying mud may crack into many-sided blocks, and bees shape honeycomb into regular, six-sided cells. Hexagons also appear in broad sheets of clouds across parts of Earth

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Around Mount Erebus, an active volcano on Ross Island in Antarctica, steam has hollowed out extensive cave systems. Lead researcher Dr Ceridwen Fraser from the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society,

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but the mold on it could make you sick. Rhiannon Wallace, a PhD candidate at UBC Okanagan’s campus, has developed a way to stop, or at least control, blue mold—a pa

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent The shock from a young electric eel feels like accidentally touching a horse fence. A big one is more like getting tasered — by nine of those devices at once. Vanderbilt University researcher Ken Catania k

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent A new study evaluating models of future climate scenarios has led to the creation of the new risk categories “catastrophic” and “unknown” to characterize the range of threats posed by rapid global warming.

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Clouds are an important part of the Arctic climate because they trap warm air at the surface like a blanket. There has been a continuous increase in cloud cover over the Arctic for the past two decades and

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Popular portrayals of “nature reclaiming civilization” in flood-damaged New Orleans, Louisianna, neighborhoods romanticize an urban ecology shaped by policy-driven socioecological disparities in redevelopm