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Pioneering new research has provided a fascinating new insight in the quest to determine whether temperature or water availability is the most influential factor in determining the success of global, land-based carbon sinks.
The research, carried out by an international team of climate scientists including Professors Pierre Friedlingstein and Stephen Sitch from the University of Exeter, has revealed new clues on how land carbon sinks are regulated on both local and global scales.
Sediment found at the site of one of the largest lakes in Earth’s history could provide a fascinating new insight into how inland regions responded to global climate change millions of years ago.
A pioneering new study, carried out by a team of British-based researchers, has analysed sediments from the site of the vast lake which formed in the Sichuan Basin, in China, around 183 million years ago in the Jurassic period.
Michigan State University-led research has found a big difference in the yields produced by alternative agricultural practices in commercial fields compared with the same practices in the small experimental plots ordinarily used to test them.
Rainfall patterns in the Sahara during the 6,000-year "Green Sahara" period have been pinpointed by analyzing marine sediments, according to new research led by a UA geoscientist.
What is now the Sahara Desert was the home to hunter-gatherers who made their living off the animals and plants that lived in the region's savannahs and wooded grasslands 5,000 to 11,000 years ago.
A team of scientists led by prof. Adrian Liston (VIB–KU Leuven) and prof. Isabelle Meyts (UZ Leuven – KU Leuven) were able to characterize a new genetic immunodeficiency resulting from a mutation in a gene named STAT2. This mutation causes patients to be extremely vulnerable to normally mild childhood illnesses such as rotavirus and enterovirus. Prof. Liston’s comprehensive analysis of the genetic defect allows clinicians to provide children with the proper therapies before illnesses prove fatal. The findings of the research have been published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
El próximo 21 de febrero de 2017 dará inicio el Primer Congreso Internacional de Ingeniería Ambiental en Tabasco, México, organizado por el Colegio de Ingenieros Ambientales de México, A.C. (CINAM) y tendrá su sede en el Centro de Convenciones de la Ciudad de Villahermosa, Tabasco, México.
Este evento es el primero en su tipo en México y con él se busca fomentar el desarrollo y la excelencia de la Ingeniería Ambiental en México mediante la difusión de la investigación científica y de los avances tecnológicos en Ingeniería Ambiental en todo el mundo.
También se trata de informar y orientar a la opinión pública y privada, a los tres niveles de gobierno en México y al público en general, sobre las posibles soluciones a los problemas ambientales del país y que estas soluciones sirvan como referencia para la solución de problemas ambientales similares en otras partes del mundo.
En este evento estarán presentes el Gobierno del Estado de Tabasco, el Ayuntamiento del Municipio de Centro (Villahermosa) Tabasco, la Secretaría del Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales de México (SEMARNAT), la Comisión Estatal de Agua y Saneamiento de Tabasco y otras organizaciones públicas y privadas.
