The Hans Jenny Memorial Lecture in Soil Science - The Genius of Soil
Garrison Sposito holds the Betty and Isaac Barshad Chair in Soil Science at Berkeley. He was a personal friend of Hans Jenny for nearly 30 years ...
Science at the Theater: Secrets of the Soil
Four Berkeley Lab scientists unveil the "Secrets of the Soil"at this Nov. 7, 2011 Science at the Theater event. Eoin Brodie, Janet ...
Looking Inside the Brains of 'Lucid Dreamers'
FAITH LAPIDUS: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I’m Faith Lapidus.
BOB DOUGHTY: And I’m Bob Doughty. Today, we tell how warmer weather in the Arctic could speed up climate change around the world. We offer two possible explanations for a magnetic field on the moon. And we tell about a new study of dreams.
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FAITH LAPIDUS: As Earth warms, the higher temperatures are melting ice in places like the North Pole. But ice is not all that is changing. The increased warmth is also melting permafrost -- frozen ground that stays at or below zero degrees Celsius for an extended period.
A new American report says melting permafrost can free microbes that produce methane gas. Methane is considered more threatening to the environment than carbon dioxide.
Janet Jansson of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California led the study. She worked with researchers from the United States Department of Energy, the Joint Genome Institute and the Earth Sciences Division within the Berkeley lab.
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Permafrost science heats up in the United States “This is a large challenge,” says Susan Hubbard, a subsurface scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, who is a co-principal investigator on the project. The permafrost programme represents a new direction for the ... |
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Looking Inside the Brains of 'Lucid Dreamers' She worked with researchers from the United States Department of Energy, the Joint Genome Institute and the Earth Sciences Division within the Berkeley lab. BOB DOUGHTY: Her team studied microbes in soil from a forest of black spruce trees in the state ... |
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African trees victims of climate change BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Human-caused climate change is killing trees in a region in Africa south of the Sahara Desert, a study by US researchers says. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, say their conclusion is based on ... |
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UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, say their conclusion is based on climate change records, aerial photos dating back to 1954, recent satellite images and fieldwork involving counting and measuring more than 1500 trees in the Sahel ... |
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December Puddles (potential for first brown Christmas since 2006?) A team of scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) came to this conclusion after analyzing 19 different ... |
