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Man's impact on the planet brings about new epoch in earth's history

They believe that human dominance has so physically altered the earth that the Holocene epoch has ended and we have entered a new epoch – the Anthropocene. Dr…

Bad news for coastal ocean: less fish out, means more nitrogen in

A Canada-U.S. research team has found that commercial fisheries play an unexpected role in the decline of water quality in coastal waters. In the latest issue…

River plants may play major role in health of ocean coastal waters

This work, which appeared in the Dec. 25 issue of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics (JFM), describes the physics of water flow around aquatic plants and…

Agriculture is changing the chemistry of the Mississippi River

“It’s like the discovery of a new large river being piped out of the corn belt,” said Pete Raymond, lead author of the study and associate professor of…

El Nino at play as source of more intense regional US wintertime storms

Researchers now believe that some of the most intense winter storm activity over parts of the United States may be set in motion from changes in the surface…

Making (Accurate Predictions of) Waves

A new review of tsunami hazards concludes that the 2004 catastrophe was far from the worst possible in many Indian Ocean borderlands – and notes that warning…

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