ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Pine beetle outbreak buffers watersheds from nitrate pollution

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News Pine beetle outbreak buffers watersheds from nitrate pollution Surprising twist to protein misfolding discovered 4,000-year-old shaman’s stones discovered near Boquete, Panama Salmon runs boom, go bust over centuries ‘Bipolar’ marine bacteria discovered: Refutes ‘everything is everywhere’ idea Potential harvest of most fish stocks largely unrelated to …

Research Links Extreme Summer Heat Events to Global Warming

kristyTrendspotting, Earth Systems Science

ScienceDaily (Aug. 6, 2012) — A new statistical analysis by NASA scientists has found that Earth’s land areas have become much more likely to experience an extreme summer heat wave than they were in the middle of the 20th century. The research was published today in the journal Proceedings of …