Getting Saltier: Great Salt Lake on Path to Hyper-Salinity, Mirroring Iranian Lake
Starved for freshwater, the Great Salt Lake is getting saltier. The lake is losing sources of freshwater input to agriculture, urban growth, and drought. According…
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Capturing a True Picture of Wolves in Yellowstone: Reevaluating Aspen Recovery Success Story
New research shows that the effects of wolves on the recovery of aspen has been exaggerated by how it was measured. It’s an environmental success…
Plastic Planet: Tracking Pervasive Microplastics Through the Atmosphere and Across the Globe
Really big systems, like ocean currents and weather, work on really big scales. And so too does your plastic waste, according to new research from…
US and Iranian Researchers Work Together on Lake Urmia Restoration
In a rare exchange, scientists and water resources engineers from Iran and Utah are collaborating on a bold scientific study to restore one of the…
Tipping Point: Irreversible Hotter and Drier Climate Over Inner East Asia
Heatwaves Pushing Mongolia’s Climate to a Tipping Point Mongolia’s semi-arid plateau may soon become as barren as parts of the American Southwest due to a…
Explaining Everything: Mathematicians Unravel a Thread of String Theory
Thomas Hill and Andreas Malmendier of Utah State University explore a string duality between F-theory and heterotic string theory in eight dimensions. Simply put, string…
Fascinating Evolution of White Thistle-Down Velvet Ants – Which Are Actually Wasps in Disguise
Multiple approaches used to investigate adaptive coloration of Dasymutilla gloriosa. Driving across the arid American Southwest, one views miles upon miles of scrubby creosote bushes….
Fang’tastic: They May Not Be Snakes, but These Amphibians Have a Venomous Bite
Utah State University and Butantan Institute scientists publish evolutionary findings in iScience. Utah State University biologist Edmund ‘Butch’ Brodie, Jr. and colleagues from São Paulo’s…
Each Year More Than 1000 Tons of Plastic Rains on Western US Protected Lands
Microplastic particles and fibers spiral through the Earth system, accumulating even in protected wilderness areas and national parks in the western US. Utah State University…
Uniting Irrigation Science and Agronomy: Water Management Grows Farm Profits
A healthy lifestyle consists of a mixture of habits. Diet, exercise, sleep, and other factors all must be in balance. Similarly, a sustainable farm operates…
