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Sea fan corals face new threat in warming ocean:copper(图)
Sea fan corals new threat warming ocean:copper
2019/12/6
For colorful, graceful sea fans swaying on coral reefs in the waters around Puerto Rico, copper is an emerging threat in an era of warming oceans.In an NSF-funded study published in the journal Ecolog...
Like atmospheric methane and carbon dioxide, ground-level ozone is on the rise. But ozone, a noxious chemical byproduct of fossil fuel combustion, has received relatively little attention as a potenti...
Inland flood threat increasing in South Florida(图)
Inland flood threat increasing South Florida
2017/12/19
As South Florida raises groundwater levels to fight saltwater intrusion, the threat of inland flooding will only increase, according to newly published research results.Although high groundwater level...
A stinging report:FSU research shows climate change a major threat to bumble bees(图)
FSU research climate change major threat bumble bees
2017/10/25
New research from a team of Florida State University scientists and their collaborators is helping to explain the link between a changing global climate and a dramatic decline in bumble bee population...
A highly toxic water pollutant, known as perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), last year caused a number of U.S. communities to close their drinking water supplies. Because of its historical use in Teflon pr...
UAB creates triple-threat cancer-fighting polymer capsules for guided drug delivery
UAB triple-threat cancer-fighting polymer capsules drug delivery
2017/4/27
Chemists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have designed triple-threat cancer-fighting polymer capsules that bring the promise of guided drug delivery closer to preclinical testing....
Fighting World Hunger:Researchers Discover a New Link to Fight Billion-Dollar Threat to Soybean Production
Fighting World Hunger Researchers Fight Billion-Dollar Threat Soybean Production
2017/3/13
Invisible to the naked eye, cyst nematodes are a major threat to agriculture, causing billions of dollars in global crop losses every year. A group of plant scientists, led by University of Missouri r...
Why the whitefly is such a formidable threat to food security
whitefly formidable threat food security
2016/12/27
Researchers have sequenced the genome of the whitefly (Bemisia tabici), an invasive insect responsible for spreading plant viruses worldwide, causing billions of dollars in crop losses each year.The g...
Study outlines threat of ocean acidification to coastal communities in U.S.
ocean acidification coastal communities U.S.
2015/3/4
Coastal communities in 15 states that depend on the $1 billion shelled mollusk industry (primarily oysters and clams) are at long-term economic risk from the increasing threat of ocean acidification, ...
New research outlines global threat of smoldering peat fires
global threat smoldering peat fires
2015/1/20
New research published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience, co-authored by Adam Watts, a fire ecologist at Nevada’s Desert Research Institute (DRI) and deputy director of DRI’s Climate, Ecosyst...
MANHATTAN — Two Kansas State University biologists are studying streams to prevent tallgrass prairies from turning into shrublands and forests.
By looking at 25 years of data on the Konza Prairie Bio...
Deforestation of sandy soils a greater climate threat
Deforestation of sandy soils greater climate threat
2014/4/16
Deforestation may have far greater consequences for climate change in some soils than in others, according to new research led by Yale University scientists — a finding that could provide critical ins...
The once-booming, now struggling Olympia oyster native to the West Coast could face a double threat from ocean acidification and invasive predators, according to new research from the University of Ca...
Seeing is believing - UQ study finds coral reefs under even greater threat(图)
coral reefs threat
2014/7/10
In a landmark study, scientists at The University of Queensland (UQ) have simulated future ocean conditions and found climate change will jeopardise the future of coral reefs.
Many Caribbean coral reefs have either stopped growing or are on the threshold of starting to erode with potential impacts to people, according to research from The University of Queensland (UQ).