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Scripps Studies Offer New Picture of Lake Tahoe's Earthquake Potential
For more than a decade, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have been unraveling the history of fault ruptures below the cobalt blue waters of Lake Tahoe one earthquake at a time.   view more (2009-04-30)

Annual Tahoe Report Says Asian Clam Invasion Is Growing Fast
Released today, UC Davis' annual Lake Tahoe health report describes a spreading Asian clam population that could put sharp shells and rotting algae on the spectacular mountain lake's popular beaches, possibly aid an invasion of quagga and zebra mussels, and even affect lake clarity and ecology.   view more (2009-08-19)

Researchers discover key gene involved in bark beetle pheromone production
University of Nevada, Reno scientists have ended a decade-long controversy over the process by which bark beetles make pheromones: they manufacture their own monoterpenes - the fragrant substances plants produce and which are often used in perfumes.   view more (2005-06-28)

Study: urban black bears 'live fast, die young'
Black bears that live around urban areas weigh more, get pregnant at a younger age, and are more likely to die violent deaths, according to a study by the Wildlife Conservation Society.   view more (2008-10-01)

Experts at Nevada develop technology to increase effectiveness of tsunami warning systems
Scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno are at the forefront on a number of seismological fields, including helping the world better determine whether an earthquake is big enough to generate an ocean-wide tsunami.   view more (2007-04-03)

Scientists believe photograph depicts wolverine in California
U.S. Forest Service scientists believe an Oregon State University graduate student working on a cooperative project with the agency's Pacific Southwest Research station on the Tahoe National Forest has photographed a wolverine, an animal whose presence has not been confirmed in California since the 1920s.   view more (2008-03-10)

History and timing of human impact on Lake Victoria, East Africa
Lake Victoria, the world's largest tropical lake, suffers from severe eutrophication and the probable extinction of up to half its 500+ species of endemic cichlid fishes. New sediment-core data show that increased algal production developed from the 1930s onwards, paralleling human population growth and agricultural activity in the surrounding... view more... (2002-02-12)

Origins of wolverine in California genetically verified
A wolverine first photographed by a remote-controlled camera on the Tahoe National Forest in February 2008 is most closely related to Rocky Mountain populations, according to a team of 10 federal, state and university scientists.   view more (2009-04-30)

Exploration of lake hidden beneath Antarctica's ice sheet begins
A four-man science team led by British Antarctic Survey's (BAS) Dr Andy Smith has begun exploring an ancient lake hidden deep beneath Antarctica's ice sheet.   view more (2008-01-16)

Global Warming Affects World's Largest Freshwater Lake
Russian and American scientists have discovered that the rising temperature of the world's largest lake, located in frigid Siberia, shows that this region is responding strongly to global warming.   view more (2008-05-01)

MSU researchers recommend ways to fight lake trout invasion in Glacier National Park
Natural barriers like waterfalls play an important role in preventing lake trout from spreading through Glacier National Park, so maintaining those barriers should be a priority, Montana State University researchers said after conducting a four-year study in the park.   view more (2008-04-25)

Cheap love costs the Earth
Ecology and conservation biologist at the University of Leicester, Dr David Harper, who has conducted research for over 25 years at Lake Naivasha in Kenya, today warned that cut-price Valentine roses exported for sale in the UK were 'bleeding that country dry'.   view more (2009-02-13)

Experts probe deaths of flamingos
Tens of thousands of flamingos at Lake Bogoria in the Great Rift Valley are simply keeling over and dying, sending alarm bells ringing among environmentalists across the globe.   view more (2000-03-08)

Nitrate in Lake Superior: On the rise
Nitrate levels in Lake Superior, which have been rising steadily over the past century, are about 2.7 percent of the way toward making the lake's water unsafe to drink, according to a study by University of Minnesota (UMN) researchers.   view more (2007-06-06)

Climate change has surprising effect on endangered naked carp
Forthcoming in the January/February 2007 issue of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, a groundbreaking study reveals an unanticipated way freshwater fish may respond to water diversion and climate change.   view more (2006-12-20)

Primitive Visitor From Space Arrives In UK
Scientists from the Natural History Museum (NHM) in London, working with colleagues from the Open University (OU) in Milton Keynes, have been examining an intriguing arrival from outer space. The Tagish Lake meteorite, which fell in the Yukon region of northern Canada on the morning of 18 January 2000, contains some of the most primitive material... view more... (2001-03-31)

Alberta's hidden valleys offer both resources and danger
Alberta is crisscrossed with hidden glacial valleys that hold both resource treasures and potential danger. University of Alberta researcher Doug Schmitt discovered a 300 metre deep, valley hidden beneath the surface of the ground near the community of Rainbow Lake in northwestern Alberta.   view more (2009-11-13)

Climate change threatens Lake Baikal's unique biota
Siberia's Lake Baikal, the world's largest and most biologically diverse lake, faces the prospect of severe ecological disruption as a result of climate change, according to an analysis by a joint US-Russian team in the May issue of BioScience.   view more (2009-05-01)

Brown papers reveal widespread, hardworking water on ancient Mars
For decades, scientists have theorized - romanticized, even - that Mars has harbored water. The evidence has grown stronger as recent missions to the Red Planet have revealed in stunning detail Martian topography, mineralogy and clues to past climate. But how much water, where it was or is located and what it was doing have been hard to pin down.   view more (2008-07-17)

Glacial melting may release pollutants in the environment
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.   view more (2009-10-22)
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