Calcium may ease extra fluoride’s dental harm
DUKE (US) — Increased dietary calcium may be key to addressing widespread dental health problems faced by millions of people living in a remote region of Ethiopia. Continue…
Friday, April 27, 2012 15:47 - 3 Comments
Earth & Environment - Dec 13, 2011 11:55 - 2 Comments
Warm-up drives tropical birds to new heights
DUKE (US) — Tropical birds are moving to higher elevations because of climate change, but they may not be moving fast enough. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Nov 1, 2011 12:04 - 1 Comment
Trees lag behind climate change
DUKE (US) — More than half of eastern US tree species examined in a massive new study aren’t adapting to climate change as quickly or consistently as predicted. (more…)
Earth & Environment - May 11, 2011 11:43 - 2 Comments
Methane 17x higher in wells near fracking
DUKE (US) — Researchers found high levels of leaked methane in well water collected near shale-gas drilling and hydrofracking sites in Pennsylvania. (more…)
Science & Technology - May 2, 2011 12:23 - 0 Comments
Whale mob: All-U-can-eat krill
DUKE (US) — Scientists observed more than 300 humpback whales gorging on the largest swarm of krill seen in more than 20 years in bays along the Western Antarctic Peninsula. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Apr 22, 2011 16:52 - 6 Comments
Gold rush stripping Peruvian Amazon
DUKE (US) — Deforestation in parts of the Peruvian Amazon has increased six-fold in recent years, as small-scale miners, enticed by record gold prices, blast and clear the lowland rainforest. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Apr 6, 2011 15:38 - 2 Comments
Baby boom for Florida sea turtles
DUKE (US) — Conservation and recovery efforts are paying off for the endangered leatherback sea turtle in Florida where the number of nests has increased by 10.2 percent a year since 1979. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Nov 11, 2010 13:03 - 0 Comments
Will stored CO2 leak into drinking water?
DUKE (US) — There could be a serious downside to injecting carbon dioxide deep underground to mitigate climate change. New analysis suggests it can pollute drinking water aquifers. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Nov 2, 2010 10:37 - 0 Comments
Warmer temps linked to rainfall extremes
DUKE (US) — A doubling of abnormally wet or dry summer weather in the southeastern United States in recent decades has come from an intensification of the summertime North Atlantic Subtropical High (NASH), or “Bermuda High.” (more…)
Earth & Environment - Aug 10, 2010 16:35 - 0 Comments
Hotter nights threaten Asia’s rice crops
DUKE / UC BERKELEY / UC SAN DIEGO (US)—Global climate change and rising temperatures will harm the production of rice, the world’s most important crop for ensuring global food security and addressing poverty, according to an international team of scientists. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Apr 16, 2010 13:18 - 0 Comments
Millions of sea turtles trapped by fishing nets
DUKE (US)—The number of sea turtles inadvertently snared by commercial fishing gear over the past 20 years may reach into the millions, according to the first peer-reviewed study to compile sea turtle bycatch data from gillnet, trawl, and longline fisheries worldwide. (more…)
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