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Plant a tree and save the Earth?

A new study says that it depends on where the trees are planted. It cautions that new forests in mid- to high-latitude locations could actually create a net…

Climate experts search for answers in the oceans

The Medspiration project, aimed at charting sea-surface temperatures, and the GlobCOLOUR project, aimed at developing a data set of global ocean colour, both…

Abrupt ice retreat could produce ice-free arctic summers by 2040

The study, by a team of scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the University of Washington, and McGill University, analyzes the…

Snottites, other biofilms hasten cave formation

“Cave biofilms are simpler than the microbes that occur in soils where there can be hundreds of thousands of species,” says Dr. Jennifer L. Macalady, assistant…

Pollution knows no borders

“There is a connection between pollution in Mexico City and in Houston, Texas,” says Dr. Anne M. Thompson, professor of meteorology, Penn State. “The spring,…

From hot springs to rice farms, scientists reveal new insights into the secret lives of archaea

For years, biologists have pigeonholed archaea as extremophiles-creatures that live in extreme conditions. Indeed, many species of archaea thrive in…

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