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Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent A team of researchers from the University of Windsor and the University of Saskatchewan have discovered that methane can naturally migrate upwards through shale over millions of years and reach groundwater

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent The Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) is not monitoring enough spawning streams to accurately assess the health of Pacific salmon, according to a new study led by Simon Fraser University rese

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent The Great Barrier Reef, and most other large reefs around the world, owe their bulk in large part to a type of red algae that grows on corals and strengthens them. New research led by Anna Weiss, a Ph.D. c

Underground drinking water sources in parts of the U.S. and three Asian countries may not be as safe as previously thought due to high levels of manganese, especially at shallow depths, according to a study led by a researcher at the University of California, Riverside. Manganese, a m

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Fish are expected to shrink in size by 20 to 30 per cent if ocean temperatures continue to climb due to climate change. A new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia provides a deeper ex

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Pardon the pun, but Canada is practically overflowing with freshwater. And, believe it or not, that abundance causes problems for water researchers. “Canada is blessed with more freshwater than anywhere el

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent In the remote Namibian grasslands, visitors come not to see the grazing zebra and oryx but instead a longstanding ecological mystery: barren patches of ground known as fairy circles. These formations, 30 t

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent An international team of scientists investigating the effects of six planned or potential Andean dams on the Amazon river system has found that major negative ecological impacts can be expected both above

It all began with a bet at a conference in Italy in 2013. Nicolas Vogel, Ph.D., then a postdoctoral fellow in Joanna Aizenberg’s lab at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Scienc

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Kodiak brown bears are abandoning salmon–their iconic prey–due to climate change, according to a new study.   The bears are more interested in chowing down on early-arriving red elderberries. The likely re