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The smell of salt air, a mile high and 900 miles inland By News Releases (University of Washington) In a surprise with implications for air quality, researchers have found thatchemistry involving airborne chloride, thought to be restricted to seaspray, occurs at similar rates in air above Boulder, Colo., nearly 900 milesaway from any ocean.

Environmental engineers receive top science paper award for investigative work By News Releases (Virginia Tech) Research that contradicted years of government assertions that no residents in Washington, D.C., had been harmed by years of unnecessary exposure to very high levels of lead in their potable water has received the Environmental Science and Technology Editor's Choice Award for Best Science Paper of 2009.

NJIT electrical engineer Yanchao Zhang receives NSF CAREER Award By News Releases (New Jersey Institute of Technology) Yanchao Zhang, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at NJIT, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award for his research project titled "Dependable Data Management in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks."

Assessing antibiotic breakdown in manure By News Releases (United States Department of Agriculture-Research, Education, and Economics) Agricultural Research Service scientist Scott Yates is studying how oxytetracycline, an antibiotic that is administered to animals, breaks down in cattle manure.

Study: Arctic seabed methane stores destabilizing, venting By News Releases (University of Alaska Fairbanks) A section of the Arctic Ocean seafloor that holds vast stores of frozen methane is showing signs of instability and widespread venting of the powerful greenhouse gas, according to the findings of an international research team led by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists Natalia Shakhova and Igor Semiletov.

New evidence hints at global glaciation 716.5 million years ago By News Releases (Harvard University) Geologists have found evidence that sea ice extended to the equator 716.5 million years ago, bringing new precision to a "snowball Earth" event long suspected to have taken place around that time. The new findings -- based on an analysis of ancient tropical rocks that are now found in remote northwestern Canada -- bolster the theory that our planet has, at times in the past, been ice-covered at all latitudes.

Results of ecosystem restoration research at Tahoe to be unveiled By News Releases (University of Nevada, Reno) More than 200 scientists, agency staff and managers, and stakeholders will meet over two days to present results aimed at measuring the success of ecosystem restoration in the Lake Tahoe Basin.

Queen's University Belfast nets 3.5M for water quality research By News Releases (Queen's University Belfast) A Queen's University Belfast research center has netted a 3.5M ($4.8M) grant from the European Union to fund research into improving water quality and quantity for future generations.

Road salt and cars produce extreme water contamination in Frenchman's Bay, UTSC research reveals By News Releases (University of Toronto) The levels of contamination to water and sediment in Frenchman's Bay in Pickering, Ontario, greatly exceed provincial water quality standards, in some cases by as much as 250 percent, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. This is largely due to large amounts of road salt applied in winter, especially to Highway 401, the study finds.

Supermarket lighting enhances nutrient level of fresh spinach By News Releases (American Chemical Society) Far from being a food spoiler, the fluorescent lighting in supermarkets actually can boost the nutritional value of fresh spinach, scientists are reporting. The finding could lead to improved ways of preserving and enhancing the nutritional value of spinach and perhaps other veggies, they suggest in a study in ACS' bi-weekly Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.