Excess nutrients from fertilizer application, pollution discharge, and water regulations outflow through rivers from lands to oceans, seriously impacting coastal water quality and ecosystems.
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NASA-NOAA Satellite Provides Wide View of Tropical Cyclone Oma
When you look at a Tropical Cyclone Oma from space, you’ll get a sense of its massive size.
UC study: Antarctic Flies Protect Eggs with 'Antifreeze'
The good thing about the short Antarctic summer is it’s a lot like a Midwest winter.
CCNY’s Nir Krakauer in Monsoon Research Breakthrough
With average precipitation of 35 inches per four-month season over an area encompassing most of the Indian subcontinent, the South Asia summer monsoon is intense, only partly understood, and notoriously difficult to predict.
A Tasty Florida Butterfly Turns Sour
The viceroy butterfly is a mimic, modeling its orange-and-black colors after the queen butterfly, a bug that tastes so disgusting predators have learned not to eat it or anything that looks like it, including viceroys.
Capturing and Converting Carbon Dioxide into a Useful Product
Carbon dioxide is a troublemaker.