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Little-Understood Weather Pattern May Cause Floods, Says UF Scientist

GAINESVILLE —Ocean cooling in another part of the world may help explain sudden storms that flood Florida rivers and streams during summer, says a University of Florida researcher.

Filed under Environment, Research, Sciences on Friday, June 21, 1996.

Environmental Chemicals Can Combine To Create Potential Hazzard

NEW ORLEANS — The combination of two environmental chemicals commonly found in insecticides and pesticides produces a response 1,000 times more powerful than each individual chemical, possibly causing harmful effects to the endocrine system, according to scientists at the Tulane-Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research (CBR) in New Orleans.

Filed under Environment, Research, Sciences on Thursday, June 6, 1996.

UF Scientist’s Discovery Challenges Assumptions About Killer Bird

GAINESVILLE — Scientists are searching for more fossils after a University of Florida paleontologist discovered a wing bone that revealed a 2-million-year-old killer bird so tough that it survived the collision of two continents.

Filed under Florida, Natural History, Research, Sciences on Wednesday, June 5, 1996.