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Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Amphibians—the big-eyed, swimming-crawling-jumping-climbing group of water and land animals that includes frogs, toads, salamanders and worm-like caecilians—are the world’s most endangered vertebrates.  On

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent A team of researchers from Environment Canada and Climate Change Canada and McMaster University have found that fish living downstream from a wastewater treatment plant showed changes to their normal behav

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent To help untangle fact from speculation, Cornell climate scientists and their colleagues have developed a “robust null hypothesis” to assess the odds of a megadrought – one that lasts more than 30 years – o

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent It may take until the 2060s to know how much the sea level will rise by the end of this century, according to a new Rutgers University–New Brunswick-led analysis. The study is the first to link global and

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Approaching the second half of the century, the United States is likely to experience increases in the number of days with extreme heat, the frequency and duration of heat waves, and the length of the grow

The world’s largest ice sheet may be less stable than previously thought, posing an even greater threat to Florida’s coastline. The first-ever marine geologic survey of East Antarctica’s Sabrina Coast, published this week in Nature, concludes that some regions of the massive East Anta

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Near the top of Cheat Mountain in West Virginia, bulldozer operator Bill Moore gazes down a steep slope littered with toppled conifers. Tangled roots and angled boulders protrude from the slate-colored soi

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Agriculture and domestic activities consume much of the Colorado River water that once flowed to the Colorado Delta and Northern Gulf of California. The nature and extent of impact of this fresh-water loss

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Hundreds of marine turtles die every year after becoming entangled in rubbish in the oceans and on beaches,  including plastic ‘six pack’ holders and discarded fishing gear.   The rise in plastic refuse in

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent The federally endangered bird, the snail kite, was faced with an interesting dilemma: The island apple snail was good to eat, but about two to five times bigger than the native snail that the bird usually