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Climate warming leads to earlier tick season
Posted: April 28, 2015The month of May brings many things, among them Mother’s Day, tulips, and Lyme Disease Awareness campaigns. But according to Dr. Richard S. Ostfeld, a disease ecologist at the Cary…
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A Global perspective on hazardous chemicals in the workplace
Posted: April 28, 2015Hazardous chemicals are a vital part of many industries, but lax and inconsistent safety standards put workers' health and lives at risk all over the world, writes Christian Friis Bach. Christian Friis Bach…
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Why Bees Can't Avoid Pesticides
Posted: April 27, 2015Pesticides such as as neonicotinoids are already under close scrutiny because research appears to show that, certainly for honey bees at least, they may interrupt the insect’s normal behaviors and they…
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How Desalination Technology Is Helping Solve California's Drought
Posted: April 27, 2015Four years of devastating droughts in California have pushed cities and counties in the Golden State to seriously consider turning to the one drinking source that is not depleting anytime soon – seawater. With the…
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Aluminum-ion battery technology advances
Posted: April 27, 2015A new high-performance 'aluminum-ion' battery could be the technical breakthrough needed to boost the renewable energy takeover. It's safe, uses abundant low-cost materials, recharges in one minute and withstands many…
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Nepal earthquake causes extensive damage and kills thousands
Posted: April 26, 2015Powerful aftershocks rocked Nepal on Sunday, panicking survivors of a quake that killed more than 2,300 and triggering fresh avalanches at Everest base camp, as rescuers dug through rubble in…
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How to help your brain age more slowly
Posted: April 25, 2015Brains age, just like the rest of the body, even for those don't get neurological disease, according to an Institute of Medicine."Some of the changes that one observes doesn't mean…
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Mountains warming faster than expected
Posted: April 24, 2015High elevation environments around the world may be warming much faster than previously thought, according to members of an international research team including Raymond Bradley, director of the Climate System…
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What's worse for polar bears- Global Warming or Pollution?
Posted: April 24, 2015As if melting ice in Polar bears' Arctic habitat was not enough, Norwegian scientists have found that organic pollutants such as pesticide residues are disrupting their thyroid and endocrine systems,…
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Cross-species animal fights explained by new research
Posted: April 24, 2015Why do animals fight with members of other species? A nine-year study by UCLA biologists says the reason often has to do with "obtaining priority access to females" in the…
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