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Living with wildfire: Q&A with Winslow Hansen, Forest Ecologist
… visibility, and the air quality index fell to unhealthy levels for millions of people. Fire ecology is a major … by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation . Hansen uses field experiments, remote sensing, and simulation … water. This causes water to be increasingly pulled from the land’s surface, which dries out trees, downed branches, …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… William Cronon recounts in his classic book Changes in the Land. What’s more, colonists rendered large areas of New … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the … climate. With it has come the alpha gal syndrome, which causes some people to become allergic to red meat. …
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Pandemics: Humans are the culprits
… many pigpens below. Bats are well-known reservoirs of many viruses and – just as they have been linked to the … occur where suburban areas sprawl into newly-cleared land. Many more are believed to have been caused by hunting, … our food system, trade in species and plants, anthropogenic climate change – all these are drivers of …
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Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost?
… agents. While potassium acetate is an effective de-icer and causes less corrosion, its high cost means it is generally … chloride ions damage the external protective layer of metal components in car chassis and accelerate tyre ageing. … juice, for example, can disrupt the nutritional balance of wetlands when it enters water bodies. Reduce salts and …
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Cary to co-lead $4.8M study on how environmental conditions shape viral outbreaks in wild rodents
… to people? A new project will monitor how changing seasons, land use, and human behavior influence viral outbreaks in … will allow the team to scan for a broad array of viruses in rodents, and see how they’re changing over time … hantavirus, and enterovirus — many of which pose an elevated risk to humans. “This study will be an …
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Dr. Winslow D. Hansen
… risk, and how we can avoid catastrophic losses. Hansen uses experiments and field observation to reveal how forests … people and help conserve some of America’s last remaining wildlands. Hansen is building on this work to determine … for changing fire regimes in the Sonoran Desert and anthropogenic impacts on mutualist interactions (seed …
ltumblety - 11/15/2023 - 14:15
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Road salt pollution in many US lakes could stabilize at or below EPA thresholds
… that if we can hold steady or decrease road salt use, levels in many lakes could stabilize below thresholds set by … this salt harmful to many organisms, but it can leach toxic metals and radioactive materials from soil and water pipes. … to explore how other forms of global change — such as land use or climate change — alter both precipitation and …
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Dr. Sarah Batterman
… carbon sink, tropical ecosystems, biodiversity, land use change, climate change, symbiotic nitrogen … research aims to solve this problem. Batterman uses large-scale ecosystem experiments, field observations, …
ltumblety - 01/03/2024 - 10:11
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To Be Equitable, US Urban Green Infrastructure Planning Must Transform
… evaluation of projects, and less than 10% identified the causes of uneven risk distributions and vulnerability. If … Quality at the University of Connecticut’s Center for Land Use Education and Research. … of the Urban Systems Lab. More details and other project publications can be found at www.giequity.org . …
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Helium balloons impose a toll on our air, land, and sea
Helium balloons impose a toll on our air, land, and sea When balloons lose their buoyancy … with many crucial industrial, medical and scientific uses, such as in MRIs, superconductors and weather balloons. … balloons. For a party, there are banners, flags, paper streamers, pinwheels or bubbles. For a memorial, you can fly …
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