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The Lost Snail of the Yangtze
… Yang Tse River, more than 1200 km. from Chang-Hai”. The rock sat around Mineralogy for a while until the … over to the Department of Malacology (the people who study snails). Rocks from the Yangtze River, … River or the Grand Canyon of the Colorado than I have of eating lunch tomorrow on Mars, even though it might have …
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Beavers, snails, and elephants are top grads from nature’s college of engineering
… Streams from the rainy Pacific Northwest to the Utah desert were strung with their dams. The fur trade of the … lodge—it came from Israel’s Negev Desert. The pea-size rock-eating snail sticks to the underside of limestone … so much of the rock that they literally build the desert soil. Measurements taken by ecologists in the 1980s showed …
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Road salt pollution in many US lakes could stabilize at or below EPA thresholds
… it can leach toxic metals and radioactive materials from soil and water pipes. Solomon saw the upward-trending … other things, the model ignores salt inputs from natural rock weathering and from human activities like agriculture …
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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… & enjoyed very much our discussions about the fate of soil C and N on those plots. I will always remember you! …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… virus disease, the Bourbon virus disease, anaplasmosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Colorado tick fever, Borrelia … the Northeast’s depleted lands for the rich post-glacial soil of the Midwest. The forests came back in a big way. By … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Soil carbon sequestration as a climate change solution
Soil carbon sequestration as a climate change solution … A lot of folks wonder why I am not a big advocate of soil carbon sequestration to mitigate climate change. … content of P in soils beyond what is made available by rock weathering. Applications of nitrogen fertilizer …
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Keeping the invasive bugs at bay
… researchers track and attack spreading invaders Shelving Rock Trail offered a shady respite on a warm September day … really serious about making sure you don’t import soil, plants or anything into New Zealand.” In the … in the Lake George watershed.” Patrolling Shelving Rock With a team of three others, Schwartzberg hiked …
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Geoengineering II: The sea
… change. A couple of rogue groups have even tried iron fertilization as a means of increasing phytoplankton and … details. While phytoplankton have bloomed in several ocean fertilization experiments, the emissions of nitrous oxide, a … powerful greenhouse gas, have increased as well. And iron fertilization shifts the nutrient limitation to other …
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What's wrong with having a pet snail?
… What's wrong with having a pet snail? Invasive snails cause widespread ecological and economic damages, and … plant (and human) diseases, and damages stucco buildings by eating them. So invasive snails cause widespread ecological … the Everglades, snakeheads in the Potomac, and feral cats eating the world’s last Stephen’s Island wren. You …
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Dr. Arielle Biro
… ranging from climate, fire, species composition, and soil nutrients, affect the future of boreal forests under … African savannas. Her research focused on understanding how soil nutrients, soil microbes, fire, and nitrogen fixation affect savanna …
ltumblety - 12/06/2023 - 08:49