As the world warms and precipitation that would have generated snowpack instead creates rain, the western U.S. could see larger floods, according to new Stanford research.
Environment
Jan 27, 2020
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Using a 22-year dataset of plant-caterpillar-parasitoid interactions collected within a patch of protected Costa Rican lowland Caribbean forest, scientists report declines in caterpillar and parasitoid diversity and density ...
Ecology
Jan 22, 2020
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Soya and beef from South America, timber from Russia, fish from China—in an era of globalisation, central Europe has become a market for animal and plant products from all over the world. But in addition to these tangible ...
Ecology
Dec 4, 2019
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Cutting down trees inevitably leads to more carbon in the environment, but deforestation's contributions to climate change are vastly overestimated, according to a new study.
Environment
Nov 4, 2019
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Human population density and land use is causing changes in animal genetic diversity, according to researchers at McGill University.
Ecology
Oct 22, 2019
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A new technique developed by University of Alberta biologists can determine whether certain fish populations are native to lakes in national parks.
Plants & Animals
Sep 19, 2019
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How much climate change is natural? How much is man-made?
Environment
Sep 18, 2019
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The water regime of a landscape commutes more and more between the extremes drought or flooding. The type of vegetation and land use plays an important role in water retention and runoff. Together with scientists from the ...
Environment
Sep 11, 2019
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A vast region of Africa affected by drought and changing land use emits as much carbon dioxide each year as 200 million cars, research suggests.
Environment
Aug 13, 2019
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Combatting global warming will require major changes in land use, a new climate change report says. One important change could be decreasing the amount of land used to produce livestock—which means that people would have ...
Environment
Aug 8, 2019
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