News tagged with land management
Traumatized trees: Bug them enough, they get fired up
(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether forests are dying back, or just drying out, projections for warming show the Pacific Northwest is becoming primed for more wildfires.
Apr 12, 2010 |
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Forest Service Web-based tool helps manage environmental risk
The U.S. Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (EFETAC) recently launched the Comparative Risk Assessment Framework and Tools (CRAFT), a user-friendly, Web-based support system that helps natural ...
Sep 25, 2009 |
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Exotic timber plantations found to use more than twice the water of native forests
Ecologists have discovered that timber plantations in Hawaii use more than twice the amount of water to grow as native forests use. Especially for island ecosystems, these findings suggest that land management ...
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Asia faces food shortage by 2050 without water reform
A comprehensive new study of irrigation in Asia warns that, without major reforms and innovations in the way water is used for agriculture, many developing nations face the politically risky prospect of having ...
Aug 17, 2009 |
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A quarter of the world's population depends on degrading land
A new study published in the journal Soil Use and Management attempts for the first time to measure the extent and severity of land degradation across the globe and concludes that 24% of the land area is degrading - ofte ...
Mar 20, 2009 |
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Attempt to move Forest Service could spark turf war
In what eventually could become a major bureaucratic turf war, there have been stirrings on Capitol Hill about moving the U.S. Forest Service from the Agriculture to the Interior Department.
Mar 01, 2009 |
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Pathogenic soil bacterium is influenced by land management practices
Researchers from Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin, Australia have found that the soil bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, which causes the emerging infectious disease melioidosis in humans and animals, is ass ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 21, 2009 |
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