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Groundbreaking estuary study by Dr. Chuanqiao Zhou of Institute of Science Tokyo and Dr. Fei He of Nanjing Institute of Environment Sciences reveals the hidden dance between terrestrial pollution, ...

I spent last week in the US Virgin Islands, collecting samples to reconstruct records of sediment runoff from the steep mountainsides that surround sparkling bays ringing the island of St. John. When ...

Rising temperatures and precipitation driven by climate change would trigger heavy runoff into oceans and the resulting pollution will shoot up mercury levels in all oceanic creatures and harm the ...

As climate change progresses, rising temperatures may impact nitrogen runoff from land to lakes and streams more than projected increases in total and extreme precipitation for most of the continental ...

A highly toxic form of mercury could jump by 300 to 600 percent in zooplankton -- tiny animals at the base of the marine food chain -- if land runoff increases by 15 to 30 percent, according to a new ...

A highly toxic form of mercury could jump by 300 to 600 percent in zooplankton – tiny animals at the base of the marine food chain – if land runoff increases by 15 to 30 percent, according to a new ...

The hydrologic consequences of land resource development are a greater concern in the Deschutes Basin than in most watersheds. The uniform natural flow of the Deschutes River is sustained by ...