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Millions of students and educators nationwide examining carbon footprints during National Environmental Education Week, April 13-19.
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Microbes living in the oceans play a critical role in regulating Earth's environment, but very little is known about their activities and how they work together to help control natural cycles of water, carbon and energy.
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As scientific concern grows about global climate change, few people appreciate that two-thirds of the planet is ocean.
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Antarctica is home to the largest body of ice on Earth. Prior to approximately 10 years ago, no one thought that life could exist beneath the Antarctic ice sheets, which can be more than two miles thick in places, because conditions were believed to be too extreme. However, Brent Christner, assistant professor of biological sciences at LSU, has spent a great deal of time in one of the world's most hostile environments conducting research that proves otherwise.
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Scientists from three leading UK research institutes have just released new findings that could have major implications for food production and global warming in the 21st century.
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