Along the muddy banks of the Pamunkey River in Virginia's New Kent County, Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have built an irrigation system that is allowing them to simulate the potential effects of climate change ...
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Jul 28, 2015
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Salmon are severely impacted by the loss of floodplain habitats throughout the West Coast. In few places is this more pronounced than in Oregon's Tillamook Bay, where nearly 90 percent of estuaries' tidal wetlands have been ...
Ecology
Jun 19, 2015
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Determining whether estuaries and tidal wetlands are net emitters or absorbers of carbon dioxide is the object of a NASA-funded study by a national team of researchers. The three-year, $1.2-million study, led by Penn State ...
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May 5, 2015
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Millions of birds that stop at coastal wetlands during annual migrations could die as rising sea levels and land reclamation wipe out their feeding grounds, researchers warned Monday.
Environment
May 6, 2013
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(Phys.org) —According to a 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, global sea level is expected to increase one half meter or more over the next century. Along the Mid-Atlantic coast of the United ...
Environment
Apr 18, 2013
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It may be the most ambitious habitat restoration project ever conceived in the United States.
Environment
Mar 26, 2013
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As sometimes happens with science, Greg Hood went looking for one thing, and found something else: tidal beavers.
Ecology
May 24, 2009
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