Month: November 2012
Plumbing systems operate on a razor’s edge, leaving forests vulnerable. This by Susan Milius in ScienceNews. “Trees in most forests, even wet ones, live perilously close to the limits of…
Ok, I’ll be honest. As plant biochemists we usually cheer for the guys in green (in this case, the seaweeds). But even we can make an exception when fleshy…
Ocean fertilization is a type of geoenginerring involving the addition of limiting nutrients to ocena surfaces with the goal of increasing phytoplankton productivity, which may take up and store…
Our recent PLoS ONE paper, coauthored by Dickinson students Hannah Leahey, Chris Mealey, and Kelly Maers, passed the 1,500 download milestone this month. Not bad for a…