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ICE WORLD When the Arctic coast retreats, life in the shallow water areas drastically changes

The thawing and erosion of Arctic permafrost coasts has dramatically increased in the past years and the sea is now consuming more than 20 metres of land per year at some locations. The earth masses removed in this process increasingly blur the shallow water a... more

WATER WORLD Ageing dams pose growing threat: UN

The report, "Ageing water infrastructure: An emerging global risk," by UNU's Canadian-based Institute for Water, Environment and Health, says most of the 58,700 large dams worldwide were constructed between 1930 and 1970 with a design life of 50 to 100 years, ... more

OIL Why Is The US Reluctant To Bomb ISIS Oil Fields?

There has been some revealing new information coming out recently regarding the strategy against ISIS. One aspect many find troubling is the apparent failure of U.S. and coalition forces to sufficiently target and destroy oil infrastructure located in ISIS ter... more

FLORA FAUNA Researchers identify the microbes in 100-year-old snail guts

Now, a century later, a team of ecologists from the CU museum have returned to those snails, obtaining surprising insights into something that Henderson couldn't have predicted at the time: the diverse communities of bacteria and other microbes, known collecti... more

ENERGY TECH Gamma ray camera offers new view on ultra-high energy electrons in plasma

Researchers at General Atomics (GA) have invented a new kind of gamma ray camera that can image beams of energetic electrons inside ultra-hot fusion plasma. The device is used in ongoing global research that is developing fusion into a new clean energy source.... more

CARBON WORLDS Seagrasses Can Store as Much Carbon as Forests

Seagrasses are a vital part of the solution to climate change and, per unit area, seagrass meadows can store up to twice as much carbon as the world's temperate and tropical forests. So report researchers publishing a paper in the journal Nature Geoscience. Th... more

WOOD PILE Eastern forests shaped more by Native Americans' burning than climate change

"I believe Native Americans were excellent vegetation managers and we can learn a lot from them about how to best manage forests of the U.S.," said Marc Abrams, professor of forest ecology and physiology in the College of Agricultural Sciences. "Native America... more

CLIMATE SCIENCE Climate change not to blame for Bronze Age collapse

Scientists will have to find alternative explanations for a huge population collapse in Europe at the end of the Bronze Age as researchers prove definitively that climate change - commonly assumed to be responsible - could not have been the culprit. Archaeolog... more