Archive: Earth & environment
Earth & environment 2009 Research Highlights
Oceanography: One trouble after another
Felix Cheung
Published online: 25 November 2009 | doi:10.1038/nchina.2009.225
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& Combined effects of ocean acidification and solar UV radiation on photosynthesis, growth, pigmentation and calcification of the coralline alga Corallina sessilis (Rhodophyta). Glob. Change Biol. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02113.x (2009).
Top of pageGeology: When all hell breaks loose this content is Open !
Felix Cheung
Published online: 14 October 2009 | doi:10.1038/nchina.2009.201
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et al. Slip maxima at fault junctions and rupturing of barriers during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. Nature Geosci. doi:10.1038/ngeo636 (2009).
Top of pageClimate change: The coming plague this content is Open !
Felix Cheung
Published online: 30 September 2009 | doi:10.1038/nchina.2009.189
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, & Impacts of climate change on historical locust outbreaks in China. J. Geophys. Res. 114, D18104 (2009).
Top of pageGreen chemistry: Treating waste with waste this content is Open !
Felix Cheung
Published online: 09 September 2009 | doi:10.1038/nchina.2009.176
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, , & Facile eco-friendly treatment of a dye wastewater mixture by in situ hybridization with growing calcium carbonate. J. Mater. Chem. doi:10.1039/b911830f (2009).
Top of pageEnvironmental chemistry: Solving two crises in one go this content is Open !
Anne Pichon
Published online: 19 August 2009 | doi:10.1038/nchina.2009.164
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et al. A new method for water desalination using microbial desalination cells. Environ. Sci. Technol. doi:10.1021/es901950j (2009).
Top of pageEnvironmental sciences: Dying sturgeons
Ai Lin Chun
Published online: 01 July 2009 | doi:10.1038/nchina.2009.137
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et al. Malformations of the endangered Chinese sturgeons, Acipenser sinensis, and its causal agent. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 23, 9339–9344 (2009).
Top of pagePalaeogeography: Cold mountain this content is Open !
Felix Cheung
Published online: 01 July 2009 | doi:10.1038/nchina.2009.138
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et al. The Gamburtsev mountains and the origin and early evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Nature doi:10.1038/nature08024 (2009).
Top of pageAtmospheric chemistry: Radical recycling
Anne Pichon
Published online: 24 June 2009 | doi:10.1038/nchina.2009.132
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et al. Amplified trace gas removal in the troposphere. Science doi:10.1126/science.1164566 (2009).
Top of pageClimate science: Desert on the move this content is Open !
Felix Cheung
Published online: 03 June 2009 | doi:10.1038/nchina.2009.121
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, & Responses of dune activity and desertification in China to global warming in the twenty-first century. Global Planet. Change 67, 167–185 (2009).
Top of pageGreenhouse gases: Hanging in the balance
Felix Cheung
Published online: 29 April 2009 | doi:10.1038/nchina.2009.86
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et al. The carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems in China. Nature doi:10.1038/nature07944 (2009).
Top of pageMicrobiology: Under the sea
Felix Cheung
Published online: 25 March 2009 | doi:10.1038/nchina.2009.58
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et al. GeoChip-based analysis of metabolic diversity of microbial communities at the Juan de Fuca Ridge hydrothermal vent. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA doi:10.1073/pnas.0810418106 (2009).
Top of pageAgricultural science: Less is more
Jane Qiu
Published online: 04 March 2009 | doi:10.1038/nchina.2009.38
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et al. Reducing environmental risk by improving N management in intensive Chinese agricultural systems. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA doi:doi:10.1073/pnas.0813417106 (2009).
Top of pageGeochemistry: The Cenozoic cycle
Tim Reid
Published online: 04 February 2009 | doi:10.1038/nchina.2009.15
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, , & Evolution of the Cenozoic carbon cycle: The roles of tectonics and CO2 fertilization. Global Biogeochem. Cycles doi:10.1029/2008GB003220 (2009).
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