The research could allow people to make predictions at the continental scale about where it might be safer to store contaminants deep underground.
Earth Sciences
May 11, 2021
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Agriculture accounts for more than a third of water use in the United States. In drier parts of the country, like the southwestern U.S., that fraction can be much higher. For example, more than 75% of New Mexico's water use ...
Ecology
Dec 16, 2020
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The first beavers to be introduced into the wild in England for 400 years were on Thursday given permission to stay, in what campaigners hailed as a landmark move.
Ecology
Aug 6, 2020
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How can some of world's biggest problems—climate change, food security and land degradation—be tackled simultaneously?
Environment
Jul 7, 2020
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Central Asia belongs to arid and semi-arid region. Water resource is the most critical natural factor affecting the region.
Earth Sciences
Jun 23, 2020
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Leading water and coastal engineering experts from the University of Western Australia warn one of the biggest risks facing Australia is water security, with some regional towns experiencing water shortage to the point where ...
Environment
Feb 28, 2020
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Atlantic purple sea urchins are common in coastal waters along the East Coast, and University of Rhode Island scientist Coleen Suckling thinks the Ocean State could become the home of a new industry to raise the spiny marine ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 14, 2020
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The Gill-Oxygen Limitation Theory, known as GOLT, explains the biological reasons that force fish, particularly larger or older ones, to move poleward when the waters in their habitats heat-up due to climate change.
Ecology
Oct 28, 2019
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Humanity faces increasingly painful trade-offs between food security and rising temperatures within decades unless emissions are curbed and unsustainable farming and deforestation halted, a landmark climate assessment said ...
Environment
Aug 8, 2019
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Overfishing, water shortages and pollution—these are just some of the environmental problems Lake Victoria has been facing over the last few decades. Bordered by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, the world's second largest freshwater ...
Ecology
Jul 18, 2019
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