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Is the California Drought Causing Land to Sink?
Posted: August 21, 2015As Californians continue pumping groundwater in response to the historic drought, the California Department of Water Resources today released a new NASA report showing land in the San Joaquin Valley…
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MIT analysis improves estimates of global mercury pollution
Posted: August 21, 2015Once mercury is emitted into the atmosphere from the smokestacks of power plants, the pollutant has a complicated trajectory; even after it settles onto land and sinks into oceans, mercury…
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China's carbon emissions may be lower than estimated
Posted: August 20, 2015The IPCC has over-estimated China's emissions since 2000 by 14%, almost 3 gigatonnes of carbon since 2000, while its energy consumption has been 10% higher than realised, writes Eliza Berlage….
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Mercury and Selenium are Accumulating in the Colorado River Food Web
Posted: August 20, 2015Although the Grand Canyon segment of the Colorado River features one of the most remote ecosystems in the United States, it is not immune to exposure from toxic chemicals such…
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Air pollution in China is bad, REALLY bad!
Posted: August 20, 2015There can be no question that the epic story of our time is our struggle to endure against the threatening demons of our own creation. In that story, China must…
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Scientists discover what causes soil acidification
Posted: August 19, 2015Australian and Chinese scientists have made significant progress in determining what causes soil acidification – a discovery that could assist in turning back the clock on degraded croplands.
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How will global food supply be affected by climate change?
Posted: August 19, 2015In 2007, drought struck the bread baskets of Europe, Russia, Canada, and Australia. Global grain stocks were already scant, so wheat prices began to rise rapidly. When countries put up…
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Help the Monarch recover
Posted: August 19, 2015Jode Roberts has spent a lot of the summer checking out ditches and fields along the sides of roads, railways and trails. At first, he didn’t like what he was…
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The Fukushima Accident Lives On
Posted: August 18, 2015New evidence from Fukushima shows that as many as 2,000 people have died from necessary evacuations, writes Ian Fairlie, while another 5,000 will die from cancer. Future assessments of fatalities…
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Dissecting the Farm-to-Table Fable
Posted: August 18, 2015The vibrant, mega-million-dollar farm to table movement is under increasing scrutiny these days. In San Diego, where produce is an $1.8 billion industry and year-round farmers markets can be found in almost…
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