Successfully integrating human activities with ecosystem conservation forms the foundation of sustainability and is key to maintaining biological diversity. A new study has found that recreational use of private land in the ...
Ecology
Aug 9, 2016
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The Sand Fire, in the Santa Clarita area northwest of Los Angeles, has burned more than 41,000 acres, destroyed 18 houses and caused one fatality. By August 1, 2016, when the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 3, 2016
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A lightning strike 35 miles north of Battle Mountain, Nevada on July 02, 2016, started the wildfire that is now called the Hot Pot wildfire and is 122,320 acres in size.
Earth Sciences
Jul 7, 2016
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As Iowa farmers have planted more acres of corn to meet the demand driven by the corn-based ethanol industry, many models predicted that nitrate concentrations in Iowa streams would increase accordingly. However, recent IIHR ...
Environment
May 25, 2016
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The Rocky Mountain portion of Shenandoah National Park in Virginia is experiencing an early fire season wildfire. The satellite image was taken by the Aqua satellite on April 20, 2016. The fire began on April 16, 2016 and ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 22, 2016
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Studies found that illegal loggers clear-cut at least 24 acres (10 hectares) in the monarch butterflies' wintering grounds in central Mexico this year, a Mexican environmentalist said Friday.
Ecology
Dec 18, 2015
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Wildfires in the western United States have made 2015 the country's most devastating fire year since at least 1960, despite the relatively small number of individual fires.
Environment
Oct 14, 2015
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The Tassajara fire began on September 19, 2015 and is located in the Carmel Valley, California. Overnight the fire grew to over 1,000 acres, but has been limited to 1,086 acres since then and is 65% contained. There has ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 23, 2015
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The human-caused North Star Fire in Washington State which began on August 13 was dampened over the Labor Day weekend by snowfall, but not extinguished. The fire, which is currently at 211,356 acres, is only 45% contained, ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 14, 2015
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Severe wildfires are often thought to be increasing, but new research published today in the international science journal PLOS ONE shows that severe fires from 1984-2012 burned at rates that were less frequent than historical ...
Environment
Sep 9, 2015
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