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11 March 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Earth & Environmental Sciences               Probabilistic evaluation of shallow groundwater resources at a hypothetical carbon sequestration site ▶     Zhenxue Dai, Elizabeth Keating, Diana Bacon et al.     Carbon sequestration in geologic reservoirs is an important approach for mitigating greenhouse gases emissions to the atmosphere. This study first develops an integrated Monte …             Mass Spectrometry of Flavonoid Vicenin-2, Based Sunlight Barriers in Lychnophora species ▶     Denise Brentan Silva, Izabel Cristina Casanova Turatti, Dayana Rubio Gouveia et al.     Lychnophora salicifolia plants collected from four different places in Brazil (three states: Goias, Minas Gerais and Bahia) revealed a conserved accumulation of vicenin-2, a di-C…             Responses of soil microbial activity to cadmium pollution and elevated CO2 ▶     Yi Ping Chen, Qiang Liu, Yong Jun Liu et al.     To address the combined effects of cadmium (Cd) and elevated CO2 on soil microbial communities, DGGE (denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis) profiles, respiration, carbon (C) …             Discovery of a living coral reef in the coastal waters of Iraq ▶     Thomas Pohl, Sameh W. Al-Muqdadi, Malik H. Ali et al.     Until now, it has been well-established that coral complex in the Arabian/Persian Gulf only exist in the coastal regions of Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Un…             Self-assembled nanocrystals discovered in Chelyabinsk meteorite ▶     D. A. Pavlov, A. I. Bobrov, N. V. Malekhonova et al.     Current interest in nanomaterials is focused mostly on artificial materials fabricated for various applications. However, naturally occurring nanocrystal arrays, like those …             Melanosomes or Microbes: Testing an Alternative Hypothesis for the Origin of Microbodies in Fossil Feathers ▶     Alison E. Moyer, Wenxia Zheng, Elizabeth A. Johnson et al.     Microbodies associated with fossil feathers, originally attributed to microbial biofilm, have been reinterpreted as melanosomes: pigment-containing, eukaryotic organelles. This …             Abnormal lithium isotope composition from the ancient lithospheric mantle beneath the North China Craton ▶     Yan-Jie Tang, Hong-Fu Zhang, Etienne Deloule et al.     Lithium elemental and isotopic compositions of olivines in peridotite xenoliths from Hebi in the North China Craton provide direct evidence for the highly variable δ7Li in Archean …             Southward spreading of the Fukushima-derived radiocesium across the Kuroshio Extension in the North Pacific ▶     Yuichiro Kumamoto, Michio Aoyama, Yasunori Hamajima et al.     The accident of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in March 2011 released a large amount of radiocesium into the North Pacific Ocean. 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