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Randomness, not Environmental Selection, Key to Altering Bacteria in Arctic

In the Northeast, heat waves, heavy downpours, and sea level rise pose growing challenges. Infrastructure, agriculture, fisheries, and ecosystems will be increasingly compromised, according to NASA. Such climatic outcomes at lower latitudes could be, in part, affected by changes to microbial communities in the Arctic, where the thawing of permafrost changes how microbes contribute to global greenhouse gas production. To further understand and predict the implications of a thawing Arctic, scientists with the Âé¶ąapp's College of Life Sciences and Agriculture have focused on identifying ecological factors that play key roles in affecting changes to microbial communities.

Concord Monitor: Why is yet another grocery store coming to Concord?

In a state that has an increasing number ways to get our food, from farm stands to specialty markets to home delivery, do we still need 100,000-square-foot buildings full of every conceivable type of grocery item stuck in the middle of big parking lots? According to Jess Carson,Ěýresearch assistant professor at the Carsey School, the answer is yes.