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Study finds restoring seagrass meadows may reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase carbon stores Seagrasses could be the oceans’ best-kept secret, and a multibillion-dollar marketplace, for mitigating global climate change, according to a study published this week. Seagrass meadows act as a massive carbon sink, capable of storing as much carbon as [...]
On Earth Day, April 22, more than one billion people around the globe will mark the importance of protecting our planet. That’s nearly the same number of people who lack access to safe drinking water. Water is our most basic need—too little or too much impacts every aspect of our [...]
This article, co-authored by FIU Department of Earth and Environment Assistant Professor Hong Liu, was originally published in Tropical Garden magazine Spring 2012. By Hong Liu, Feng Chang-Lin, Shu-Wei Cai and Yi-Bo Luo Photos by Hong Liu You may have heard stories about emergency rescues of plants or animals from habitats [...]
When the Museum of Discovery and Science in Ft. Lauderdale recently opened its new EcoDiscovery Center, FIU researchers delivered a unique Everglades exhibit. Sitting at the center of the major, 34,000-square-foot expansion is a kiosk housing the latest tracking data for a variety of predators that currently populate the Everglades [...]
The Chronicle of Higher Education this week features FIU as an example of a university with a research growth strategy that has succeeded where many others have not. The Chronicle discovered that FIU’s efforts over the past decade to invest in growing federally funded scientific and engineering research has yielded [...]
The news.FIU.edu team caught up with Hugh Willoughby a few weeks ago to interview him for the Worlds Ahead Web site. His short profile video will launch with the site soon, but we thought that his description of flying through the eye of a hurricane was a great piece to [...]
Dr. Seza Gulec, an FIU Wertheim College of Medicine professor of surgery and radiology/ nuclear medicine, is a leading researcher in the development of this treatment and was the first in the United States to use SIRT in combination with chemotherapy for the treatment of liver cancers. He was originally [...]
MIAMI – Florida International University College of Engineering and Computing Dean Amir Mirmiran has been named the Miami-Dade American Society of Civil Engineers 2009 Engineer of the Year, adding to his list of accomplishments since assuming leadership of the college. Mirmiran, 48, who became the college’s dean in February after [...]
Listen to a WLRN interview with Dr. Gulec MIAMI – May 7, 2009 – A novel treatment for inoperable liver cancer that delivers high doses of radiation directly to the site of tumors is extending and improving the life of patients. Known as Selective Internal Radiation Therapy, this innovative treatment [...]
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