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ecosystems

Study Reveals Evolutionary History of Imperiled Salmon Stocks

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent New technologies for analyzing DNA may transform how imperiled species are considered and managed for conservation protection, according to a study published today in the journal Science Advances and led b
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Climate Change and Habitat Conversion Combine to Homogenize Nature

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Climate change and habitat conversion to agriculture are working together to homogenize nature, indicates a study in the journal Global Change Biology led by the University of California, Davis. In other w
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Seafood for Thought

Covering 70 percent of Earth’s surface, the world’s oceans are vast and deep. So vast, in fact, that nearly every coastal country has the potential to meet its own domestic seafood needs through aquaculture. In fact, each country could do so using a tiny fraction of its ocean territor
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Turning pollen into a low-cost fertilizer

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent As the world population continues to balloon, agricultural experts puzzle over how farms will produce enough food to keep up with demand. One tactic involves boosting crop yields. Toward that end, scientis
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Habitat destruction and poaching is threatening the Sungazer

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent The Sungazer (Smaug giganteus), a dragon-like lizard species endemic to the Highveld regions of South Africa, is facing an assault on two fronts as farming and industrialisation encroaches on its natural h
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Climate change projected to significantly increase harmful algal blooms in U.S. freshwaters

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Harmful algal blooms known to pose risks to human and environmental health in large freshwater reservoirs and lakes are projected to increase because of climate change, according to a team of researchers l
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University of Delaware look at adding silicon to soil to strengthen plant defenses

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent To help plants better fend off insect pests, researchers are considering arming them with stones. The University of Delaware’s Ivan Hiltpold and researchers from the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environmen
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Frogs That Adapt to Pesticides Are More Vulnerable to Parasites

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Amphibians can evolve increased tolerance to pesticides, but the adaptation can make them more susceptible to parasites, according to a team that includes researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. T
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Rare Opportunity to Study the Critically Endangered North Pacific right whale in the Bering Sea

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Even after so many years of doing field work, sometimes you are still left amazed. Because every now and then the stars all align, and everything works out exactly as you hoped it would. Today was one of t
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Urban floods intensifying, countryside drying up

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Drier soils and reduced water flow in rural areas but more intense rainfall that overwhelms infrastructure and causes flooding and stormwater overflow in urban centres. That’s the finding of an exhaustive
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