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Mohonk Lake is getting warmer and more stagnant with climate change
… begins to equalize throughout the lake, and the warm surface layer mixes with cooler waters below. When this happens, new oxygen circulates … at NAO data, you could predict, for example, that the Northeastern US will have a colder, wetter spring. For …
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Troubling waters: Antiviral medications in wastewater may drive resistance in bat-borne viruses
Troubling waters: Antiviral medications in wastewater may drive … bat species and estimated pharmaceutical concentrations in surface waters, highlighting areas that might be at highest … squarely into one scientific discipline. For example, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves medications …
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Living with wildfire: Q&A with Winslow Hansen, Forest Ecologist
… Q&A with Winslow Hansen, Forest Ecologist We should expect that the direct and indirect effects of fire … smoke from Canadian wildfires made its way south into the Northeastern US, causing unprecedented declines in air … causes water to be increasingly pulled from the land’s surface, which dries out trees, downed branches, brush, and …
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Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost?
Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost? Salting roads can make winter … on Dalian’s roads after heavy snowfalls. Residents of the north-eastern Chinese city even reported hearing their … with high blood pressure, while high chloride levels in surface water are toxic to certain types of fish, insects …
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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… Gary M. Lovett , forest ecologist and Senior Scientist Emeritus at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, died on … the Catskill Science Collaborative , and the Northeastern Ecosystem Research Cooperative . Colleague … deep and will be missed by many.” Raised in New York’s Capital Region, Lovett was shaped by summers at Helderberg …
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July: Stay cool
… cool and refreshing, or know just how frigid Michigan’s waters can be on the hottest summer day. So let’s take a … Michigan or Lake Superior (brrr) knows. The average July surface temperatures in these lakes are 67 degrees and 53 … are in the 80s in lower Michigan and in the 70s even in the U.P. Some waters are even colder than this in July, but …
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Fifty-year-old law proves we can address environmental challenges
… 700 billion pounds of toxic pollutants from reaching our waters each year. Photo by National Archives June … clear rivers filled with fishes and waterfowl to: “The surface (of the Cuyahoga River) is covered with the brown … Water Act fell far short of its goals. It did not make all U.S. waters fishable and swimmable. Having no releases of …
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Trump's gutting of environmental rules is pushing us back into dark days of ignorance [Opinion]
Trump's gutting of environmental rules is pushing us back into … with alternative ways of managing mosquitoes, and now the recovery of bald eagles is a huge success in environmental … it's dangerous. His ongoing efforts to disable existing Waters of the United States (WOTUS) protections are an …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
How Lyme disease became unstoppable There was nothing inevitable about … with their acorns, deer, mice, and ticks, had made a major recovery. At the same time, Connecticut had seen a huge … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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How it all started
… Dr. William H. Schlesinger President Emeritus, Biogeochemist … life evolve on Earth about 3500 million years ago? The land surface is unlikely, as it would have been subject to a … at less than 0.1% of the rate we find in the surface waters. Normally, we might overlook this low-level of …
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