The timing and duration of the Last Interglacial period have been controversial, with some studies suggesting a relatively short duration that is orbitally forced and others suggesting a long duration that is at most only partly related to orbital forcing. New, high-precison thermal ionization mass spectrometric (TIMS) U-series ages of Last Interglacial corals from Hawaii and Bermuda test these...

House dust mite allergy is present in up to 90% of Asian atopic patients, with increasing incidence and prevalence of sensitization and clinical allergy from childhood through to adulthood. This far exceeds the reported prevalence of 50%–70% in Western populations [1]. House dust mite allergy is particularly common in the tropical areas of Southeast Asia due to the warm, humid climate [2]. In c...

The Arctic Ocean marine carbon cycle: evaluation of air-sea CO2 exchanges, ocean acidification impacts and potential feedbacks N. R. Bates and J. T. Mathis Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, Ferry Reach, Bermuda School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA Received: 18 June 2009 – Accepted: 21 June 2009 – Published: 9 July 2009 Correspondence to: N. R. ...

soil and sediments of the estuaries and wetlands in northwest of persian gulf are recently polluted with different heavy metals because of municipal and industrial wastewaters. therefore an urgent soil cleaning up and remediation program is vital in this region. consequently, this study was initiated to screen two plant species (festuca arundinacea and cynodon dactylon) for hyperaccumulation of...

Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA, MOE Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, Department of Marine Sciences, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, University of Georgia, Savannah, GA, USA, Department of Chemistry, ...

a Department of Marine Sciences and Oceanography, Texas A&M University, Galveston, TX 77553, USA b Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, Bermuda and Ecosystems Center, MBL, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA c School of Freshwater Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53204, USA d Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland e European Commission, DG-Energy, Luxembourg f De...