Before your favorite produce arrives at the grocery store, it must be carefully harvested and maintained across long stretches of time. A recent University of Georgia review published in Scientia Horticulturae suggests new ...
Research by ecologist Tom Heuts of Radboud University shows that several experimental measures taken at Frisian farms to restore biodiversity in former peatlands were unsuccessful. Three methods in which the water levels ...
Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford have shown that weathering of rocks in the Canadian Arctic will accelerate with rising temperatures, triggering a positive feedback loop that will ...
What do Venice, Jakarta, Manilla and Bangkok have in common? They are or were sinking cities. Wageningen researcher Philip Minderhoud studies the causes of subsidence in these cities. Groundwater extraction plays an important ...
A researcher from the University of Southampton (UK) has found evidence that the treeless, rugged, grassland landscape of the Falkland Islands was home to a lush, diverse rainforest up to 30 million years ago.
Wetlands, such as bogs and marshes, have largely disappeared in the Netherlands. With humidification and the growth of the right plants, wetlands can be restored. This is evident from research by Renske Vroom, who will receive ...
There has been a rapid expansion in growing crops such as maize to produce biomethane as a cleaner alternative to fossil fuels to help reach Net Zero. But some of this increased cultivation, on drained peat, is emitting three ...
Despite covering just 2% of the ocean, coastal wetlands—such as tidal salt marshes, mangrove forests and seagrass beds—are responsible for storing nearly half of all carbon found in ocean sediment. These "blue carbon" ecosystems ...
Holographic images of microbial life in Loch Ness have been captured for the first time using the University of Aberdeen's state-of-the-art digital holographic camera.
Each summer, nearly 25,000 acres (10,000 hectares) of rice is cultivated in the Florida Everglades Agricultural Area, a roughly 1,100-square-mile (2,800-square-kilometer) area south of Lake Okeechobee.
