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Breathing particulate matter (i.e., tiny particles suspended in the air) air pollution may trigger irregular heart rhythms (arrhythmias) in healthy teenagers, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association.
Insects that are adapted to perennially wet environments, like tropical rainforests, don’t tend to do well when their surroundings dry out.
It is seven o'clock in the evening on July 2nd, 2011. A cloudburst of historic proportions has just struck north of Copenhagen.
Research author Dr Milo Barham, from the Timescales of Mineral Systems Group within Curtin’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences said the finding further challenged the understanding that the Nullarbor Plain, which emerged from the ocean about 14 million years ago, was essentially flat and featureless.
Alien species pose one of the world’s major environmental problems.
Whether roaming wild or enclosed in floating feedlots on the ocean, Atlantic salmon are cold-water fishes.
