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An expert assessment helps quantify the amount of carbon dioxide that will be released in the Arctic following climate-related changes in the biomass.

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Terrestrial biosphere is contributing to climate change because of human activities including agriculture.

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A technique developed by Northern Arizona University researchers can help invasive pest managers make more informed decisions about how to control Japanese beetles and the extensive damage they cause.

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Trina Spencer, research director at the Institute for Human Development at Northern Arizona University, is helping remedy the national reading crisis through the roll-out of a revolutionary language intervention system called Story Champs. Educators across the nation are praising the program.

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Northern Arizona University researcher studies the impact of CMV on healthcare providers.

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Being diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening illness is distressing enough but a dearth of cohesive services often compounds the difficulty, according to an NAU researcher.

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Following a DNA trail through the secretive world of heroin use, an international team of researchers led by Paul Keim at Northern Arizona University answered questions about injectional anthrax while demonstrating the latest advances in whole genome sequencing.

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Scientists will use two methods of harvesting ambient energy to power marine sensors on elephant seals.

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As permafrost thaws and old carbon is released, the carbon feedback cycle may be accelerated.

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NAU researcher leads project to measure effects of severe boreal wildfires and the loss of permafrost on ecosystems. The NASA-funded research is part of the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment.

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NAU professor Chris Downum and his team of students have been documenting sites all over the northern Arizona region using photogrammetry technology.

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An article published in Science this week, suggests catastrophic wildfire danger could be reduced by increasing use of planning burning in land management plans.

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Jet fuel, when combined with sustained noise, may cause brain-related injury and lead to multiple conditions.

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Land managers may use fungi to ensure health of planting and reforestation efforts.

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The Center for Bioengineering Innovation at Northern Arizona University may have formulated a solution to more seamlessly integrate natural movement with mechanical support in a bionic ankle. An algorithm developed by the center forms the basis of a $225,000 National Science Foundation grant.

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Northern Arizona University has one of the world's few ice labs, where scientists are growing ice samples simulating Pluto's surface.

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A team of researchers took an ecological perspective toward the nose as an environment for microbes to investigate how other bacteria influence Staphylococcus aureus.

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Assistant professor Sharon Moses is unearthing artifacts under former slave quarters. Her research is filling in historical gaps of slaves, including black Indians.

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An EEG study performed by NAU researchers shows chocolate can increase brain characteristics of attention and significantly affect blood pressure levels.

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Scientists know more about how climate change may be affected by the thawing of billions of tons of organic carbon in the Arctic permafrost. climate change happens

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LiDAR technology is helping archaeologists see through the thick jungle to Maya ruins in Belize.

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Research of Africa's Lake Bosumtwi sediments provides insights into abrupt climate change

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Researchers are measuring bat populations in post-wildfire forests of Arizona. Bats are considered an indicator species of habitat health.

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NAU's RAPIDLab turns researchers ideas into objects to be used at conferences and to bring products to the marketplace.

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Students study impacts of bison overcrowding at Grand Canyon National Park. Officials will include student's research findings in the environmental impact statement process underway now.

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A Northern Arizona University researcher discovered one exercise session can improve the body's antioxidant system.

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NAU researchers are using DNA in guano to identify species, a practice assisting in bat preservation.

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The mortality of soil microbes in warmer temperatures may affect soil carbon storage.

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Some fish will leap out of water to escape a predator, but Northern Arizona University researcher Alice Gibb has observed that the mosquitofish chooses the most energy-efficient method for returning—a finding that has evolutionary implications.

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The varying health risks from exposure to natural uranium are well established, but Diane Stearns, professor of biochemistry at Northern Arizona University, and her team have identified a new target organ for uranium exposure: skin.

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Team of researchers from Northern Arizona University organized survey and rescue mission for threatened gartersnake species in Oak Creek Canyon.

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With a $1 million award from the W. M. Keck Foundation, a transdisciplinary research team at Northern Arizona University aims to transform current understanding about muscle contraction by devising a way to make a direct observation of the protein titin.

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What seemed to be rock-solid assumptions about the nature of small asteroids may end in rubble or even a cloud of dust. Northern Arizona University researchers David Trilling and Michael Mommert presented their findings about asteroid 2011 MD during a NASA event on the Asteroid Redirect Mission.

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Research published in Science found that increased levels of CO2 in the atmosphere cause soil microbes to produce more carbon dioxide, accelerating climate change.Two Northern Arizona University researchers led the study, which challenges previous understanding about how carbon accumulates in soil.

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Blunting the sinister potential of melioidosis may hold the promise of life-saving precision medicine. With $7 million in Pentagon funding, a research team at Northern Arizona University will use genetic sequencing and high-performance computing in the quest to treat or even prevent the disease.

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A casual look at Easter Island yields familiar and enduring images of stone statues scattered on a barren, wind-swept landscape—a popularized symbol of catastrophic environmental collapse. But what Britton Shepardson sees with archaeologist eyes is not a sterile monument to human futility.

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A bird flapping its wings or a fish’s deep dive may be pictures of nature in action, but in their elegant simplicity Michael Shafer sees the complex challenges of merging technology with a biological system.

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A group of researchers focused on sustainable practices, geography and earth sciences found something unexpected during their work in Central America: the effects of drug trafficking are leaving deep scars on a sensitive landscape.

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A small, secretive creature with unlikely qualifications for defying gravity may hold the answer to an entirely new way of getting off the ground. Analysis of high-speed film reveals how salamanders—or at least several species of the Plethodontidae family—achieve vertical lift.

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Northern Arizona University joined an international team of scientists in discovering that two of the world’s most devastating pandemics—the plague of Justinian and the Black Death—were caused by distinct strains of the same pathogen.

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As drylands of the world become even drier, water will not be the only resource in short supply. Levels of nutrients in the soil will likely be affected, and their imbalance could affect the lives of one-fifth of the world’s population.

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Lessons from underground nuclear tests and explosive volcanoes may hold the answer to how a category of unusual impact craters formed on Mars.

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For 30 years, a large near-Earth asteroid wandered its lone, intrepid path, passing before the scrutinizing eyes of scientists while keeping something to itself: (3552) Don Quixote, whose journey stretches to the orbit of Jupiter, now appears to be a comet.

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Forests have a limited capacity to soak up atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study from Northern Arizona University.

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A project funded by NASA will make use of existing satellite imagery to produce the first-ever global survey of croplands.

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Ushering in a new chapter in 21st century higher education, Northern Arizona University has announced the launch of its Personalized Learning program, offering accredited, competency-based online bachelor’s degrees for just $5,000 a year.

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A plague from 1,500 years ago—a reputed ancestor to the Black Death—found its way back to relevance via labs in Germany and at Northern Arizona University, which collaborated to resolve a debate: The Justinianic Plague that started in A.D. 541 can indeed be placed on the family tree of the disease.

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Researchers found pronounced regional differences in past temperature changes while assembling the most comprehensive study to date of temperature change of Earth's continents over the past 1,000 to 2,000 years.

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Vectors of Autism presents a frank, artistic portrait of Laura Nagle, who says she is “not good at life.” But at 59, she strives to get better at it. The film, produced by Northern Arizona University professor Susan Marks to tell Nagle’s story as a window into autism, has already earned two awards.

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“Gathering for Impact!”, the 2013 International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Planetary Defense Conference, will be held in Flagstaff, Ariz., on April 15-19. The conference brings together world experts on subjects related to planetary defense, including what we currently know about potentially threatening asteroids and comets, techniques that might be used to deflect a threatening object, and political and policy issues that might affect a decision to take action. The conference will include an exercise where participants develop civil protection and threat mitigation responses to a hypothetical threat.