Green infrastructure has been embraced as a tool to help cities achieve sustainability and resilience goals while improving the lives of urban residents. How green infrastructure is defined guides the types of projects that ...
Environment
Jan 5, 2022
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Forest restoration treatments can reduce future fire severity and benefit populations of California spotted owls, even with temporary disruptions within owl habitats in the Sierra Nevada, CA.
Ecology
Dec 17, 2021
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Across the U.S., road crews dump around 25 million metric tons of sodium chloride—much like table salt—to unfreeze roads each year and make them safe for travel.
Ecology
Dec 9, 2021
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Personality differences that account for varying behaviors within species should be taken into account in ecosystem management, according to researchers in the University of Maine Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 8, 2021
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As Earth's average temperature rises, climate change impacts grow around the globe. Hurricanes and wildfires are bigger and more destructive. Extreme rain events are more common. Droughts last longer.
Ecology
Oct 6, 2021
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Results of a new study by ecologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst show that 1,330 nurseries, garden centers and online retailers are still offering hundreds of invasive plant species as ornamental garden plants. ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 9, 2021
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Research co-led by the Center for Research on Desertification (CIDE, CSIC-UV-GVA) describes the mechanisms that make major forest fires possible. Climate emerges as one of the main triggers by fostering the flammability of ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 15, 2021
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Major ecosystem changes like sea-level rise, desertification and lake warming are fueling uncertainty about the future. Many initiatives—such as those fighting to fully eradicate non-native species, or to combat wildfires—focus ...
Ecology
Jul 8, 2021
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Humans regularly exert a powerful influence on the survival and persistence of species, yet social-science information is used only sporadically in conservation decisions.
Ecology
Jun 3, 2021
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North Carolina State University researchers have developed a computer simulation tool to predict when and where pests and diseases will attack crops or forests, and also test when to apply pesticides or other management strategies ...
Ecology
Jun 3, 2021
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