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• Optimizing Standard Sequential Extraction Protocol With Lake And...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  The environmental mobility/availability behavior of radionuclides in soils and sediments depends on their speciation. Experiments have been carried out to develop a simple but robust radionuclide sequential extraction method for identification of radionuclide partitioning in sediments and soils. The sequential ...
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• Hazardous golf balls take 1,000 years to decompose: Scientists

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  London, Nov. 11 (ANI): Golf balls are proving to be a huge environmental hazard, as they take between 100 and 1,000 years to decompose naturally, according to scientists. An estimated 300 million balls are lost each year in America alone, and when scientists searched the bottom of Loch Ness monster, they were startled ...
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• ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY VERIFICATION REPORT: STORMWATER SOURCE ...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  Verification testing of the Hydro International Downstream Defender® was conducted at the Madison Water Utility in Madison, Wisconsin. The system was designed for a drainage basin estimated at 1.9 acres in size, but during intense storm events, the system received water from an area up to approximately four acres. ...
  1 week ago

• No hot water in shower

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 159
  The shower in my ensuite is the highest flowing water in the house.Its on the regular hot water system (ie not a powered electric shower)It has a Mira control for hot and cold water.Hot water pressure in the shower has always been “weak” and hot water was always slow to start flowing. Saturday morning hot [...]
  2 weeks ago

• (Sieve) Size Matters

  
  Deep Sea News — Authority: 471
  Enter the sieve. It is a marine biologists best friend, saving hours of sorting and enabling quantification of fauna. In fact you can get these miracle  workers at McMaster-Carr for a mere $40-50. You take good care of these puppies and they will last several graduate student’s lifetimes! I prefer the 500 micron ...
  2 weeks ago

• Arctic Lake Sediments Show Warming, Unique Ecological Changes In...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  An analysis of sediment cores indicates that biological and chemical changes occurring at a remote Arctic lake are unprecedented over the past 200,000 years and likely are the result of human-caused climate change, according to a new study.
  2 weeks ago

• Current global warming unlike any other in the past

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Washington, Oct 24 (IANS) Current global warming seems to be unlike any other in the past, which were the outcome of natural processes, says new evidence unearthed by geologists.Sediments retrieved by University at Buffalo (UB) geologists from a remote Arctic lake are unlike those seen during previous warming ...
  3 weeks ago

• Glacial Melting May Release Pollutants Into The Environment

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  Those pristine-looking Alpine glaciers now melting as global warming sets in may explain the mysterious increase in persistent organic pollutants in sediment from certain lakes since the 1990s, despite decreased use of those compounds in pesticides, electric equipment, paints and other products.
  3 weeks ago

• Ancient Sediments from Arctic Lake Add to Evidence of Anthropogenic Warming

  
  Global Warming is Real — Authority: 495
  Human activity is changing climate in ways not seen on Earth for at least the past 200,000 years. Thats the conclusion of new research published earlier this week in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences , adding to the "large pile of evidence" that current climate change has diverged from the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Diverting Sediment-Rich Water Below New Orleans Could Lead To Extensive New Land

  
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  Diverting sediment-rich water from the Mississippi River below New Orleans could generate new land in the rivers delta in the next century.The land would equal almost half the acreage otherwise expected to disappear during that period, a new study shows.
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• Diverting Sediment-rich Water Below New Orleans Could Lead To Ex...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  Diverting sediment-rich water from the Mississippi River below New Orleans could generate new land in the rivers delta in the next century. Openings in Mississippi levees could build new land in sinking delta.
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• Arctic Lake Sediment Shows Warming, Unique Ecological Changes in Recent Decades

  
  Saving Gas — Authority: 161
  A University of Colorado at Boulder-led analysis of a 200,000 year-old sediment core from a Baffin Island lake indicates warming temperatures in the Arctic due to human activity are overriding a natural cooling trend in the region. (Photo by Jason Briner, University at Buffalo)An analysis of sediment cores indicates ...
  3 weeks ago

• Diverting Sediment-rich Water Below New Orleans Could Lead to Ex...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  Diverting sediment-rich water from the Mississippi River below New Orleans could generate new land in the rivers delta in the next century. The land would equal almost half the acreage otherwise expected to disappear during that period, a new study shows. read more
  3 weeks ago

• Killer algae may be guilty of world’s greatest mass extinctions

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Washington, October 20 (ANI): A new theory has suggested that the seemingly lowly algae may be the killer behind the world’s great species mass extinctions.Today, just about anywhere there is water, there can be toxic algae. The microscopic plants usually exist in small concentrations, but a sudden warming in the ...
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• The Deep Sea Vents

  
  Travel, Work, Life...! — Authority: 123
  A volcano erupts in the black dark night on a remote part of the Planet. Thick plumes like black smoke are coming out from it. The terrain temperatures rise to 600 F̊ while it comes out from the magma blankets; deep cracks formed around the volcano and superheated water seeps from them. Though the magma is deadly ...
  4 weeks ago

• No evidence of comet explosion over North America 13,000 years ago

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  London, October 13 (ANI): An independent study has cast more doubt on a controversial theory that a comet exploded over icy North America nearly 13,000 years ago, wiping out the Clovis people and many of the continent’s large animals.In 2007, a team led by Californian researchers announced a theory that a comet or ...
  4 weeks ago

• Cleaning Koi Fish Pond

  
  Handy Man Fix Home Repair — Authority: 478
  One of the most popular features in an outdoor space is a pond. Homeowners who spend time outdoors particularly love fishponds. But cleaning koi fish ponds is a task that should be done regularly. Many people who buy the beautiful, ornamental koi dont realize that keeping their environment clean is necessary for ...
  6 weeks ago

• Word clouds for two upcoming conference presentations

  
  Clastic Detritus — Authority: 109
  As I mentioned last week (as have others as well ) it is abstract-writing and presentation-preparation season. Thankfully, the deadline for abstracts for the April 2010 AAPG conference in New Orleans has been extended a couple of weeks. I’m presenting a talk at the GSA meeting in Portland next month about ...
  8 weeks ago

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