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Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Microbes mediate the global marine cycles of elements, modulating atmospheric carbon dioxide and helping to maintain the oxygen we all breathe, yet there is much about them scientists still don’t understan

The living, breathing ocean may be slowly starting to suffocate. More than two percent of the ocean’s oxygen content has been depleted during the last half century, according to reports, and marine “dead zones” continue to expand throughout the global ocean. This deoxygenation, trigge

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent One hundred small streams in the Midwest were tested for pesticides during the 2013 growing season and found to contain, on average, 52 pesticides per stream More than 180 pesticides and their by-products

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Using isotope fingerprints in feathers, researchers have pinpointed the northern breeding grounds of a small, colourful songbird. Myrtle warblers breed across much of Canada and the eastern United States,

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent On the North Slope of Alaska, snow is melting earlier in the spring and the snow-in date is happening later in the fall, according to a new study by CIRES and NOAA researchers. Atmospheric dynamics and sea

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent An abnormal season of intense glacial melt in 2002 triggered multiple distinct changes in the physical and biological characteristics of Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys over the ensuing decade, new

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) have publicly released high-resolution maps of Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys, a globally unique polar desert. The high-resolution maps c

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent It is a painful lesson of our time that the things we depend on to make our lives more comfortable can also kill us. Our addiction to fossils fuels is the obvious example, as we come to terms with the slow

On the afternoon of March 21, 2011, a heavy-equipment operator named Shawn Funk was carving his way through the earth, unaware that he would soon meet a dragon. That Monday had started like any other at the Millennium Mine, a vast pit some 17 miles north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, ope

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent In the last 20 years, the field of animal coloration research has experienced explosive growth thanks to numerous technological advances, and it now stands on the threshold of a new era. That’s the c