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A Push From the Mississippi Kept Deepwater Horizon Oil Slick Off Shore, Penn Research Shows

Research by a trio of geoscientists, including the University of Pennsylvania’s Douglas Jerolmack, now offers an explanation for why some of the oil stayed out…

Tracking Down a Big Nutrient Pollutant in Chesapeake

Such is the case in the Chesapeake Bay, North America’s largest estuary, where an overabundance of nutrients fosters the formation of an oxygen-starved “dead…

First Forecast Calls for Mild Amazon Fire Season in 2012

Fire season across most of the Amazon rain forest typically begins in May, peaks in September and ends in January. The new model, which forecasts the fire…

You're beautiful, Vesta

When UCLA's Christopher T. Russell looks at the images of the protoplanet Vesta produced by NASA's Dawn mission, he talks about beauty as much as he talks…

Climate scientists discover new weak point of the Antarctic ice sheet

These predictions are made by climate researchers of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association in the coming…

Fighting Ecological Invaders Efficiently

By disinfecting the ballast water in ships, a system named Sicure protects marine environments from damage due to the introduction of alien plant and animal…

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