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A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine calls for an international, multi-institutional comprehensive campaign of research, observation, and analysis activities that would help improve understanding and prediction of the Gulf of Mexico’s Loop Cu

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Methane emissions have been rising sharply since 2006. Different research teams have produced viable estimates for two known sources of the increase: emissions from the oil and gas industry, and microbial

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent The fascinating array of genetic changes that confer pesticide resistance in Anopheles mosquitoes is reviewed in an article published today in Trends in Parasitology. The paper is written by Colince Kamdem

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Forty percent of the world’s 2.5 billion people live in coastal cities and towns. A team including Smithsonian marine biologists just released 25 years of data about the health of Caribbean coasts from the

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Scientists at Michigan State University have shown that streams can be key health indicators of a region’s landscape, but the way they’re being monitored can be improved. New research featured in Ecology L

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent It is well understood how flowers use complex color patterns and smells to attract pollinating bees. But now, scientists have discovered that flowers also emit heat to advertise themselves to insects — cre

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Humans may be the dominant cause of global temperature rise, but they may also be a crucial factor in helping to reduce it, according to a new study that for the first time builds a novel model to measure

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent The air we breathe contains particulate matter from a range of natural and human-related sources. Particulate matter is responsible for thousands of premature deaths in the United States each year, but leg

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Charcoal remains after a forest fire help decompose fine roots in the soil, potentially accelerating CO2 emissions in boreal forests. Boreal forests are a huge carbon sink. The fine roots, not only the lea

Lakes Environmental Lakes Environmental Research Inc., Receives Landmark Patent Naturally occurring algae on Greenland’s massive ice sheet absorb large amounts of the sun’s energy and speed up the melting of the ice sheet even more than black carbon and mineral dust, according to a ne