Hurricane Ike in Texas showing condominiums with rising rushing waters. A combination of rising seas and dammed rivers could flood large swaths of wetlands this century in one or more bays from Alabama to Texas. (Credit: iStockphoto/Susan Long) The findings, which will be presented ...
Paul Larsen, an associate professor of biochemistry at UC Riverside, examines an Arabidopsis plant. (Credit: UCR Strategic Communications) For many years, scientists have puzzled over how toxic levels of aluminum damage the growing root. The popular understanding is that aluminum binds to several targets ...
South Beach, Miami, Florida. “It is easier to find inefficient commutes in the newer, more sprawl-like cities in the Sun Belt like Las Vegas or Miami, where there is not just one city center, but several. People may be going from their home ...
Arctic sea ice extent for September 2008 was 1.8 million square miles, second lowest on satellite record. University of Colorado at Boulder researchers believe it may be the lowest sea ice volume ever recorded. The light blue line in the Arctic shows the ...
Some places may produce more mercury emissions by switching from incandescent light bulbs to compact fluorescent lighting, a new study suggests. (Credit: iStockphoto/Jon Schulte) The study, which appears online October 1 in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, looked at all 50 states and ...
The bubbles visible in this piece from an Antarctic ice core sample contain carbon dioxide and other gases that were trapped in the ice when formed thousands of years ago. Researchers carefully crush the piece and capture the gases that escape when the ...
Parry Channel in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, as seen by Envisat’s ASAR on 25 August 2008, when the direct Northwest Passage was open (right image), and on 22 September 2008 when sea ice is closing the direct Northwest Passage. (Credit: ESA) This year marked ...
Morphology of a sandfish. (A) A living adult sandfish in the hand of the experimenter. (B) top-view (C) side-view of a 3D-reconstruction of a fixed sandfish. The spatula-shaped snout, the streamlined body shape, the smooth integument, long limbs as well as long and ...
According to Schultz there are two theories on how swarms find the way. In the ’subtle guide’ theory, a small number of scout bees, which had been involved in selecting the new nest site, guide the swarm by flying unobtrusively in its midst; near neighbours adjust their flight path to ...
Bald eagles live in high densities along the Aleutian archipelago off the coast of Alaska and place their nests on islets, coastal cliffs and shoreline sea stacks. Historically, more than 90 percent of the eagles’ food comes from the ocean. (Credit: Norm Smith, ...