An international team of scientists, including two from Oregon State University, conducted a biological assessment of the world’s rivers and the limited data they found presents a fairly bleak picture.
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Researchers Demonstrate New Method to Track Genetic Diversity of Salmon, Trout
Scientists at Oregon State University and the U.S. Forest Service have demonstrated that DNA extracted from water samples from rivers across Oregon and Northern California can be used to estimate genetic diversity of Pacific salmon and trout.
Pandemic Got You Down? A Little Nature Could Help
Having trouble coping with COVID?
Northern Hemisphere Cold Surges Result of Arctic and Tropical Pacific Synergistic Effects
China is just one of many countries in the Northern Hemisphere having what researchers are calling an “extremely cold winter,” due in part to both the tropical Pacific and the Arctic, according to an analysis of temperatures from Dec. 1, 2020, to mid-January of 2021.
Human Impact on Solar Radiation Levels for Decades
In the late 1980s and 1990s, researchers at ETH Zurich discovered the first indications that the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth’s surface had been steadily declining since the 1950s.
Release of Nutrients From Lake-Bottom Sediments Worsens Lake Erie’s Annual ‘Dead Zone,’ Could Intensify as Climate Warms
Robotic laboratories on the bottom of Lake Erie have revealed that the muddy sediments there release nearly as much of the nutrient phosphorus into the surrounding waters as enters the lake’s central basin each year from rivers and their tributaries.