With the federal government calling for major cuts in water use to address the historic shortage on the Colorado River, the leaders of 30 agencies that supply cities from the Rocky Mountains to Southern California have signed ...
Environment
Nov 17, 2022
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Ninety percent of the counties in the United States suffered a weather disaster between 2011 and 2021, according to a report published Wednesday.
Environment
Nov 16, 2022
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A major new report suggests that with a handful of strategies New England's 32 million acres of forests, which cover about three-quarters of the region, could eventually come close to absorbing 100% of all the carbon produced ...
Environment
Nov 15, 2022
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The sounds of chainsaws and woodchippers and the sights of stands of dead trees have become more familiar in recent years across Connecticut. Forests are under stress and are being lost—an average of 13 acres of forests ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 31, 2022
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Hurricane damages cost an average of $20.5 billion per event in the United States. Their effects are widespread and often chronic, with loss of infrastructure, communities, and lives. The aftershocks ripple out farther still—pressure ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 24, 2022
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Prescribed fire—a tool increasingly used by forest managers and landowners to combat invasive species, improve wildlife habitat and restore ecosystem health—also could play a role in reducing the abundance of ticks and ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 24, 2022
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Poor water management and excessive extraction are the primary causes of declining flow and the poor state of Australia's Darling River, a new study has found.
Environment
Oct 24, 2022
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To help plant breeders speed crop improvement around the world, Lukas Mueller of the Boyce Thompson Institute worked with an international team of 57 people to create Breedbase, a database software that was described in the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 14, 2022
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By 2050—just 28 years from now—the sea level along the Long Island Sound shoreline is projected to be 18 inches above today's levels. By 2100 it could be as much as six and a half feet higher than current levels. Climate ...
Environment
Oct 13, 2022
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Most Australians have known drought in their lifetimes, and have memories of cracked earth and empty streams, paddocks of dust and stories of city reservoirs with only a few weeks' storage. But our new research finds over ...
Environment
Oct 6, 2022
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