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Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent To halt the decline, the world needs to rein in both climate change and nutrient pollution, an international team of scientists including Lisa Levin, a biological oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oc

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent For the first time, an international team of researchers has measured the escalating rate of coral bleaching at locations throughout the tropics over the past four decades. The study documents a dramatic s

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Accelerating ocean acidification could be transforming the fundamental structure of California mussel shells, according to a new report from a Florida State University-led team of scientists. For thousands

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Methane hydrates, also known as flammable ice, occur in many regions of the oceans. But only under high pressure and cold temperatures the product of methane and water forms a solid compound. If the pressu

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Cultural evolution has made humans enormously potent ecosystem engineers and has enabled us to survive and flourish under a variety environmental conditions. Even hunter-gatherers, who obtain their food fr

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent We and all other animals wouldn’t be here today if our planet didn’t have a lot of oxygen in its atmosphere and oceans. But how crucial were high oxygen levels to the transition from simple, single-celled

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Dodder, a parasitic plant that causes major damage to crops in the U.S. and worldwide every year, can silence the expression of genes in the host plants from which it obtains water and nutrients. This cros

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Large areas of the Earth’s surface are experiencing rising maximum temperatures, which affect virtually every ecosystem on the planet, including ice sheets and tropical forests that play major roles in reg

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent In 1870, explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, trekking across the barren and remote ice cap of Greenland, saw something most people wouldn’t expect in such an empty, inhospitable landscape: haze. Nordenskiöld

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent The fungus behind white-nose syndrome, a disease that has ravaged bat populations in North America, may have an Achilles’ heel: UV light. White-nose syndrome has spread steadily for the past decade a