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Surge of Mahdi network threatens U.S. efforts
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BAGHDAD - A Muslim imam dropped his cloak to the sidewalk. It was
a signal for the gunmen to move.
They surrounded the top Iraqi security official in a north Baghdad
district. Iraqi military vehicles - commandeered by other Shiite
militiamen - screeched into a cordon, blocking his exit. A gun was
put to his head.
Brig. Gen. Falah Hassan Kanbar, a fellow Shiite, managed to escape
when his bodyguards pulled him into a vehicle that sped down an
alley.
Details of the Aug. 5 ambush emerged this week in interviews with
Kanbar, U.S. military and intelligence officials. It remains unclear
whether the ...
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Planet's nitrogen cycle overturned by 'tiny ammonia eater of the seas'.
Newspaper article from: Global Warming Focus
; ...shows that archaea can scavenge nitrogen-containing ammonia in the most...are central to the planetary nitrogen cycles on which all life depends...our basic understanding of the nitrogen cycle." In the tree of life, archaea...
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PLANET'S NITROGEN CYCLE OVERTURNED BY 'TINY AMMONIA EATER OF SEAS'
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...shows that archaea can scavenge nitrogen-containing ammonia in the most...are central to the planetary nitrogen cycles on which all life depends...our basic understanding of the nitrogen cycle." In the tree of life, archaea...
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Teaching the Nitrogen Cycle and Human Health Interactions
Magazine article from: Journal of Geoscience Education
; ...validating these materials. THE NITROGEN CYCLE The nitrogen cycle is one of several major biogeochemical cycles (e.g., the water cycle, the carbon cycle) that exist in the world. The nitrogen cycle affects many aspects of...
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The nitrogen cycle is out of balance.
Magazine article from: World Watch
; ...to the global carbon cycle, scientists are beginning...circuit: the global nitrogen cycle. Human activities...doubling the amount of nitrogen each year that is "fixed...Alteration of the Global Nitrogen Cycle" can be obtained from...
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Using the Campus Nitrogen Budget to Teach about the Nitrogen Cycle
Magazine article from: Journal of Geoscience Education
; ...why and how to use the campus nitrogen budget as a class project. INTRODUCTION The nitrogen cycle is one of the many geochemical cycles that play out in the spheres...biosphere (Figure 1). The nitrogen cycle is a very important cycle as...
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Tallying nitrogen's increasing impact. (human activities' influence on the nitrogen cycle)
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...the dominant force in the nitrogen cycle," says ecologist G. David...70 million metric tons of nitrogen that had been stored in biomass. The nitrogen glut is evident throughout the biogeochemical cycle, according to the report...
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Rewriting the nitrogen story: plant cycles nutrient forward and backward.(This Week)
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...arrow to textbook drawings of the nitrogen cycle. The horseshoe vetch (Hippocrepiscomosa...already have a special place in the nitrogen cycle because they typically house live...colonies of the bacteria that convert nitrogen from the air into ammonium. Schimel...
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Humans are disrupting the nitrogen cycle, say scientists.
News Wire article from: Asian News International
; ...have determined that humans are disrupting the nitrogen cycle by altering the amount of nitrogen that is stored in the biosphere. The chief culprit for disruption in the nitrogen cycle is fossil fuel combustion, which releases...
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UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND RESEARCHERS OBSERVE REVERSAL OF NARRAGANSETT BAY NITROGEN CYCLE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...surprising reversal in the nitrogen cycle. Instead of removing nitrogen, the sediments have...fundamental nutrient cycles," said Nixon...changing nutrient cycle in Narragansett Bay...measured the flux of nitrogen gas, they found...
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Changing global nitrogen cycle is impacting human health.
Newspaper article from: Malaria Weekly (Atlanta, GA)
; ...Research said changes in the global nitrogen cycle, while beneficial in increasing...Roughly half of the inorganic nitrogen ever used on the planet has occurred...obvious, positive aspect of using nitrogen as a fertilizer has been a huge...
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