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Mar 3 | News
Phytoplankton are single-celled organisms that serve as the base of the marine food web and provide half the oxygen we breathe on Earth. They also play a key role in global climate change by removing carbon from the atmosphere and injecting it deep into the oceans.
Feb 16 | Featured Articles
Whatever the industry, researchers and scientist are likely to be using analytical instruments such as sensors, meters, analyzers, spectrometers, and more in their daily work. The questions then, are how efficient, how cost-effective, and how easy to use are the analytical tools currently on the market.
Feb 12 | News
A new Univ. of California, Davis, study by a top ecological forecaster says it is harder than experts thought to predict when sudden shifts in Earth's natural systems will occur—a worrisome finding for scientists trying to identify the tipping points that could push climate change into an irreparable global disaster.
Feb 9 | News
The weather system at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is set to intensify. The new Climate Service was announced this week, and it combines the various units of the Weather Service and Ocean Service that have been studying climate change. Pending congressional committee approval, the office will appear at the end of 2010.
Feb 4 | News
By analyzing sediments up to 4,000 years old, Susan Zimmerman, a scientist from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, is hoping to provide a tool to help predict future climate change.
Feb 1 | News
As climate change challenges continue to crop up around fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide, identifying renewable fuel materials and developing processes that produce environmentally friendly, cost-competitive biofuels are becoming increasingly important. MSU scientists are producing biofuels from cellulose and hemicellulose, the complex sugars that make grasses, plant stems and stalks, and leaves rigid.
Jan 22 | News
The bubbles in your champagne that appear to jump out of your glass and tickle your nose are exhibiting a behavior quite similar to the tiny bubbles found throughout the world’s oceans.
Jan 21 | News
Earth has warmed much less than expected during the industrial era based on current best estimates of Earth's "climate sensitivity"—the amount of global temperature increase expected in response to a given rise in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide.
Jan 20 | News
A U.N. warning that Himalayan glaciers were melting faster than any other place in the world and may be gone by 2035 was not backed up by science, U.N. climate experts said Wednesday—an admission that could energize climate change critics.
12/22/2009 | Featured Articles
To say that the outlook for government R&D laboratory executives is brighter for 2010 than 2009 would be a great understatement. At this time last year most laboratories were scrambling to adjust to a short-term financial upheaval brought about by an across-the-board freeze on budgets until March 2009.