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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
Engineers at MIT and Caltech have demonstrated an ingestible sensor whose location can be monitored as it moves through the digestive tract, an advance that could help doctors more easily diagnose gastrointestinal motility disorders such as constipation, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and gastroparesis.
Communities of microbes that work together release more carbon dioxide than competitive communities, contributing more to climate change.
In the wake of a series of destructive storms in late December and early January, California’s long-ailing mountain reservoirs have risen, satellite images from NASA show.
Humans are artificially expanding cities’ coastlines by extending industrial ports and creating luxury residential waterfronts.
Santa Barbara Channel’s natural oil seeps are a beach-goer’s bane, flecking the shores with blobs of tar. But the leaking petroleum also creates fascinating geologic and biologic features.
Climate change is a global environmental concern. A major contribution to climate change comes from excessive burning of fossil fuels.
