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Color-coded Bacteria Can Spot Oil Spills Or Leaky Pipes And Storage Tanks
Oil spills and other environmental pollution, including low level leaks from underground pipes and storage tanks, could be quickly and easily spotted in the future using color-coded bacteria, scientists report.
Dirty clothes could cut emissions
Almost three quarters of a t-shirt's carbon footprint is caused by washing and drying, but hanging clothes out to dry can cut emissions, according to an expert.
Feature: Reading climate signatures in the Southern Ocean
The polar regions are sensitive barometers of environmental change – what we see at both the poles foreshadows what we can expect elsewhere on the globe in a changing climate,...
New program tracks Aussie water
A new program has been developed that tracks how Australia's water drains across the surface of the continent, data that will help climate change projections.
No-till Practices Show Extended Benefits On Wheat And Forage
With more than 3 million acres of wheat in north Texas, 50 percent or more of which is grazed by 1 to 2 million head of cattle, it is important...
Dirty Air Brings Rain – Then Again, Maybe Not: Scientists Reconcile Contradictory Effects
Scientists have come up with a surprising finding to the disputed issue of whether air pollution increases or decreases rainfall. The conclusion: both can be true, depending on local environmental...
Lucky Country-brand licorice is recalled
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of Lucky Country-brand natural black licorice products due to elevated levels of lead.
VIDEO: Green Polar Bears Draw Stares
Thanks in part to their hollow hairs, polar bears at a Japanese zoo have turned green from algae in their pond.
Scientists Develop Model To Map Continental Margins
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a new exploration method to assist the oil and gas industry in identifying more precisely where the oceans and continents meet.
International experts collect alpine fungi in Beartooth Mountains of Montana
Armed guards once kept polar bears away while Cathy Cripps collected mushrooms and fungi on the island of Svalbard between Norway and the North Pole. Another time, Cripps encountered musk-oxen...
Miramichi pathology inquiry enters final phase
The public inquiry into alleged problems in the pathology lab at New Brunswick's Miramichi Regional Hospital enters its third and final phase on Monday.
Antarctic Earthquakes Shake at Glacial Speed
Seismic signals from Antarctica's Whillans Ice Stream are as strong as a magnitude-7 earthquake.
Health Report Data Called Substandard
Substandard science has hurt the CDC's seven-year effort to document possible links between industrial pollution and health problems in the Great Lakes region, an independent review panel said.
'Climate crisis' needs brain gain
The former UK chief scientist says the climate challenge is so great, it demands the most brilliant minds tackle it.
Pesticides may reduce invasive fish
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Federal researchers say they have discovered pesticides that can control voracious round gobies that have invaded the U.S. Great Lakes and Mississippi River.
Fewer April Showers for U.S. Southwest as Climate Changes
The already parched U.S. Southwest is drying up even more, at least in early spring, because of climate change. A new study in Geophysical Research Letters shows that since 1978,...
Ancient Amazon Actually Highly Urbanized
In 1925 British adventurer Colonel Percy Fawcett disappeared into the wilds of the Amazon, never to be heard from again after going there in search of a lost city he...
Major Flooding Risk Could Span Decades After Chinese Earthquake
Up to 20 million people, thousands of whom are already displaced from their homes following the devastating Chinese earthquake, are at increased risk from flooding and major power shortages in...
Beach performs weekly balancing act
Although a single wave can shift the sea bed, research has found beaches change very little over a week, suggesting nature has its own way of achieving equilibrium.
Students making sustainable changes
Students are all action when it comes to the environment - over three quarters have tried to reduce their greenhouse emissions, a New South Wales' study has found.
Cooling oceans helped biodiversity
There was a link between cooling oceans and increasing biodiversity 500 million years ago, according to research on a group of tiny fossils.
Spring ice keeps krill alive
Rising water temperatures could threaten Antarctic krill, as research has found that their survival is dependent on spring-time growth of sea ice algae.
U.N. ties red meat to global warming
LONDON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Cutting back on red meat will curb global warming, a Nobel Prize-winning United Nations climate expert says.
China launches environmental satellites
BEIJING, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- Chinese officials say they have launched two natural disaster and environment monitoring satellites.
Wanted - plumber to protect Antarctic pipes
The British Antarctic Survey is advertising for a plumber to maintain one of the world's most remote research stations.
Hanna-Ike-Josephine storm trio isn't an anomaly
Global warming can't be blamed for the trifecta -- headed toward the Southeast U.S. -- meteorologists say. It's just 'peak season in an active hurricane cycle.' ...
Alfalfa sprouts recalled for Salmonella
OLYMPIA, Wash., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Sprouters Northwest Inc. has recalled alfalfa sprouts after an outbreak of Salmonellosis in Oregon and Washington state.
Virginia Tech Research Magazine Features Environmental Research
From air quality to wildlife scat, the Summer 2008 Virginia Tech Research magazine provides articles about environmental research.