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...ings of the National Academy of Sciences ." "These deltaic sediments can serve as a history book of sorts on land-use change in these large drainage basins which is useful for upland and coastal management decisions as related to climate change issues," Bianchi explains. "Although the information stored...Better water use could reduce future food crises
... If the overall water resources in river basins were acknowledged and managed better, future food crises could be significantly reduced, say researchers from Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm...Stanford scientists find new solutions for the arsenic-poisoning crisis in Asia
...the contamination in the Himalaya Mountains, where sediments containing naturally occurring arsenic were carried downstream to heavily populated river basins below. But one mystery remained: Instead of remaining chemically trapped in the river sediments, arsenic was somehow working its way into the groun...A new view of oceanic phytoplankton
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