Most of the Great Lakes will remain above their long-term average water levels in the coming months but won't reach the record highs of recent years, Army Corps of Engineers hydrologists said in their latest forecast.
Earth Sciences
Feb 7, 2022
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When we think of climate change, we often imagine how a warmer world will impact species, but a new study highlights the importance of changes in precipitation. The finding suggests that paying attention to the environmental ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 7, 2022
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Like the 49ers fourth-quarter lead in Sunday's NFC Championship game, California's once-impressive Sierra Nevada snowpack is steadily shrinking.
Earth Sciences
Feb 1, 2022
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What gets birds in the mood to knock feathers? It's the unexpected question ecologists and researchers in central Kimberley have been faced with after witnessing an increase in purple-crowned fairy wrens breeding outside ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 6, 2022
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Wheat and rice farming on the vast Indo-Gangetic plains, affected by excessive salts in the soil, can be cost-effectively improved by treatment with gypsum and organic manure followed by sowing with salt-tolerant crop varieties, ...
Agriculture
Jan 5, 2022
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Shrubs in the desert Southwest have increased their water use efficiency at some of the highest rates ever observed to cope with a decades-long megadrought. That's the finding of a new study from University of Utah researchers, ...
Ecology
Dec 20, 2021
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Cacao farms not only provide us with the pleasure of chocolate, but also offer potential advantages for biodiversity-friendly agriculture. The benefits to biodiversity have been widely studied in tropical rainforests, but ...
Ecology
Dec 15, 2021
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Researchers at the University of Helsinki studied the relationship between allergy and atopy related skin symptoms at adult age and different types of diets as well as individual dietary food items in the same 4022 dogs when ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 18, 2021
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The most pristine parts of the Amazon rainforest devoid of direct human contact are being impacted by human-induced climate change, according to new research by LSU scientists. New analyses of data collected over the past ...
Ecology
Nov 12, 2021
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Erika Berenguer, an Amazon ecologist at Oxford and Lancaster universities, is one of the most prominent scientists studying how the rainforest functions when humans throw it off balance.
Environment
Nov 9, 2021
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