Environment
Colorado Mine Spill Aftermath: How to Clean a River
The EPA is now scrambling to mitigate the mess it created when agency workers inadvertently unleashed a pool of wastewater from an abandoned gold mine
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The Sciences
Can Plants Help Slow Soil Erosion?
A rainy science project from Science Buddies
Environment
Melting Antarctic Glaciers Create Iron Hot Spots
Extra iron may help life in the ocean flourish
Environment
Connecticut Turtle Atlas
Help scientists track turtles statewide to better understand threats to their habitat
Evolution
Bite Me: The Mutation That Made Corn Kernels Consumable
A single-point mutation in corn's ancestor teosinte got rid of the hard shell that used to encase every kernel
Environment
Massive Toxic Algae Blooms May Prove a Sign of Climate Change to Come
The blooms off the U.S. West Coast may become more frequent
Environment
Wastewater Spill from Colorado Gold Mine Triples in Volume
Some 3 million gallons of toxic wastewater have poured from a defunct Colorado gold mine into local streams since a team of EPA workers accidentally triggered the spill last week...
Environment
Fish Slime Inspires New Eco-Sunscreen Ingredient
Researchers have developed a new ecofriendly sunscreen molecule that protects against both UV-A and UV-B rays, and could also be used to create more durable paints and plastics. Christopher Intagliata reports...
Environment
EPA Team Spills Million Gallons of Waste Water into Colorado Rivers
A team of U.S. regulators probing contamination at a Colorado gold mine accidentally released a million gallons of orange-hued waste water containing sediment and metals into a local river system...
Evolution
Microbes Deep under Seafloor Reflect Ancient Land Origins
Microbes 2,500 meters below the seafloor in Japan are most closely related to bacterial groups that thrive in forest soils on land, suggesting that they might be descendants of ones that survived when their terrestrial habitat was flooded 20 million years ago ...
Environment
Killer Heat Grows Hotter around the World
Hot enough for you? This is just the beginning
Environment
Michigan Herp Atlas
Help the state’s Department of Natural Resources create a statewide survey and complete history of its amphibians and reptiles
Health
Caution Urged over Editing DNA in Wildlife
Rapid alteration of gene pools could fight disease—and harm ecosystems
Mind & Brain
Bonobo Peeps May Be Necessary Language Precursors
Animal communication studies have shown only fixed vocalizations, such as alarm cries. But Bonobo chimps appear to have a call that has different meanings in different contexts ...
Environment
Forests Suck Up Less Carbon after Drought
Tree growth lags below normal for several years following droughts, a detail about carbon sequestration that climate models currently overlook. Christopher Intagliata reports
Environment
Drought May Stunt Forests' Ability to Grow for Years
Drought holding back forests ability to store carbon may prove a vicious cycle of climate change
Environment
Can Planting Trees Make Up for Warming River Water?
An Oregon wastewater plant chooses to offset discharges by restoring riverside
Evolution
Melting Mummies Are on Thin Ice, Thanks to Climate Change
Glacial archaeologists scramble to save long-preserved specimens thawing out of vanishing ice before they are lost forever
Environment
The Alarming Environmental Costs of Beef
Producing beef for the table releases more heat-trapping greenhouse gases than most people realize—far more, pound for pound, than are generated by the production of most other kinds of food...
Environment
Dirty Air Correlates with Lower Grades in Texas Schoolchildren
El Paso school kids with higher exposure to air pollution had worse grades
