Greek fires rage unabated for a week
Greek firefighters struggled on Friday to contain scores of blazes stretching nationwide—the largest fires in the European Union this year.
Environment
Aug 25, 2023
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News tagged with land areas
Leakage or spillover? Conservation parks boost biodiversity outside them, but there's a catch, new study shows
It's easy to assume protected areas such as national parks conserve wildlife—that seems obvious. But what is the proof? And how does park success vary across different ecosystems—in deserts versus tropical rainforests, ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 24, 2023
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Wildlife overflow enriches biodiversity beyond park boundaries
New research published in Nature has discovered the power of large national parks to not only enhance bird diversity inside their borders but boost mammal diversity in nearby unprotected areas.
Plants & Animals
Aug 23, 2023
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Novel socio-environmental vulnerability index pinpoints sustainability issues in Brazilian river basins
Brazilian researchers combined environmental physical, social and economic indicators to create an index that measures a region's vulnerability and used it to analyze the basins of the Parnaíba River and São Francisco River ...
Environment
Aug 10, 2023
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Climate protection: Land use changes cause the carbon sink to decline
Forests can bind large amounts of carbon on the land surface. In this way, they decisively contribute to reducing net greenhouse gas emissions. For some areas, however, data are still lacking. In Eastern Europe, in particular, ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 9, 2023
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Geoscientists aim to improve human security through planet-scale POI modeling
When geoinformatics engineering researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory wanted to better understand changes in land areas and points of interest (POIs) around the world, they turned to the ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 25, 2023
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Strawberry fields forever? Strawberry production leaves long-term plastic pollution, research finds
Researchers have found that the plastic mulch used to support the growth of Californian strawberries sheds large quantities of plastic mulch fragments. These particles have been shown to negatively impact soil qualities, ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 9, 2023
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Hurricanes found to push warm water deep into ocean, impacting climate in distant locales
A team of oceanographers at the University of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, working with one colleague from Brandeis University and two from Oregon State University, has found evidence of typhoons/hurricanes ...
Largest study of its kind explores rare heat patterns in plants
In a new study published in The Plant Journal, researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, University of Hamburg and partners have developed new approaches to compare and investigate the ability of plants in the genus ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 20, 2023
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Experiment in Brazil identifies flood-prone areas of cities
Scientists affiliated with the National Space Research Institute (INPE) in Brazil have combined models that predict urban expansion and land-use changes with hydrodynamic models to create a methodology capable of supplying ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 12, 2023
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