Earth

  1. Earth

    The Long Burn: Warming drove recent upswing in wildfires

    Major forest fires in the western United States have become more frequent and destructive over the past two decades, in step with rising average temperatures in the region.

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    Underwater landslides tallied near Puerto Rico

    An oceanographic survey off the northern coast of Puerto Rico has found remnants of many underwater landslides, a handful of which were large enough to have caused deadly tsunamis.

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    Fast-food flies ferry foul fauna

    Houseflies buzzing around fast-food restaurants could be spreading antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

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    Asian sediments betray age of nearby desert

    Grains of silt embedded in thick sediments of northwestern China may settle a debate about the age of the Taklimakan Desert.

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    Dirty Little Secret

    Recognition is growing that many communities have soils laced with asbestos, which has prodded several federal agencies to probe the hazards they might pose.

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    Toxic Leftovers: Microbes convert flame retardant

    Bacteria can break down a common flame retardant into more-toxic forms.

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    Something’s fishy about these hormones

    Synthetic steroids used to beef up cattle can impair reproduction in female fish and even give them macho physical traits.

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    Main source of airborne pollen varies by month

    A 15-year study conducted in the New York City area charts how air concentrations of different types of allergy-causing pollen vary throughout an average year.

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    Mineral Deposit: Asbestos linked to lupus, arthritis

    Already known to cause lung cancer, asbestos has now been associated with three autoimmune diseases.

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    Cleaning up pollution, whey down deep

    Lab and field tests hint that dairy whey, a lactose-rich by-product of the dairy industry, could be used to clean up underground water supplies tainted by the solvent trichloroethylene.

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    Subglacial lakes may not be isolated ecosystems

    Large volumes of water may occasionally flow between the lakes that lie deep beneath Antarctica's kilometers-thick ice sheet.

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    Gasp! Ozone limits don’t protect babies

    In healthy infants, even ozone concentrations well below those allowed by federal law trigger asthmalike symptoms.

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