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Researchers chance viewing of river cutoff forming provides rare insight

Geography professor Bruce Rhoads and geology professor Jim Best were conducting research where the Wabash River meets the Ohio River in the summer of 2008 when…

Understanding methane's seabed escape

Methane is a powerful “greenhouse” gas and the research, carried out over the past week aboard the Royal Research Ship James Clark Ross, will improve…

NOAA researchers release study on emissions from BP/Deepwater Horizon controlled burns

In response to the spill, NOAA quickly redirected its WP-3D research aircraft to survey the atmosphere above the spill site in June. During a flight through…

Air quality has continued to improve in Finnish Lapland

Trends in the concentrations of nearly sixty atmospheric pollutants have been studied using the data collected in Finland at the Pallas-Sodankylä Observatory…

3-D microscope opens eyes to prehistoric oceans and present-day resources

U of A engineering professor Dileepan Joseph and two graduate students produced a 3-D imaging system called Virtual Reflected-Light Microscopy. The technology…

Deep oceans may mask global warming for years at a time

Earth's deep oceans may absorb enough heat at times to flatten the rate of global warming for periods of as long as a decade–even in the midst of longer-term…

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