By Kathleen Wong, UC Natural Reserve System Thanks to a gift from retired UC Riverside faculty, the UC Riverside Natural Reserve System is offering an internship for undergraduates to participate in summer field research at one or more of the campus’s natural reserves. The Advancing Inclusivity Internship will provide diverse students from Southern California universities […]
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Following rain, desert microbes exhale potent greenhouse gas
By Jules Bernstein, UC Riverside New research at two UC Natural Reserves shows how, after it rains, microbes in desert soil convert one form of pollution into another—laughing gas. No laughing matter, nitrous oxide or N2O is the third most potent greenhouse gas. Scientists conducting the research were surprised to measure N2O production in the […]