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  1. How Much Oil Can We Burn?

    … of the emissions reductions of carbon dioxide that were promised to meet the Paris Climate Accord—let alone the … of crude oil, weighing about 130 billion tons. Spread out on the land, it would deposit a layer about 1 mm deep on … M.R., et al., 2017. Warming cumulative carbon emissions toward the trillionth tonnne. Nature. 458: 1163-1166. …

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  2. Transforming urban systems: Toward sustainability

    Transforming urban systems: Toward sustainability Synthesis of five … npj Urban Sustainability , a new Nature Partner Journal out today, a team of leading urban ecologists outlines a … were detailed: extreme urban heat, the role of vacant land in urban areas, green stormwater infrastructure, and …

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  3. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … forest with little fear. Only later, after years in and out of clinics where doctors drained warm yellow liquid from … 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 …

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  4. Keeping the invasive bugs at bay

    … Couples here and there strolled beneath the forest canopy toward spectacular views across Lake George and its wooded … could, they would turn back the clock and keep the bugs out of the country. “Prevention is without a doubt the … hemlocks in the Lake George watershed. The DEC, Lake George Land Conservancy and the Adirondack Park Invasive Plant …

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  5. Toward a more inclusive definition of green infrastructure

    Toward a more inclusive definition of green infrastructure … view can limit project funding and cause cities to miss out on vital social and ecological services that more … Green infrastructure has its roots in 19th century landscape design. Its original conceptualization was broad, …

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  6. Why oceanic islands buck biodiversity trends

    … areas near the equator, tapering off rapidly as you move toward the poles. But islands in the ocean do not follow … arrive on an island and settle in. Meanwhile, with less land area and fewer elevational changes, islands have fewer … ; forest ecologist Evan Gora of Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies is the senior author on the paper.  …

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  7. New study identifies the best areas for rewilding European bison

    Land-use & Human Impacts , … late Pleistocene, and a lesson in how easy it is to wipe out a species.”  To clarify which factors led to the … hastened the species’ decline. “The stories of the past are being repeated in the present,” said Kowalczyk. …

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  8. Troubling waters: Antiviral medications in wastewater may drive resistance in bat-borne viruses

    … such insects — eating as many as 1,000 in an hour — presenting a pathway of exposure to antiviral compounds that … the treatments may not be strong enough to completely wipe out the viruses those bats carry, the viruses could have … awareness about this concerning and understudied pathway toward antiviral resistance, their paper will provide a …

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  9. Road salt pollution in many US lakes could stabilize at or below EPA thresholds

    … lines of salt concentrations in US lakes and wanted to find out where they were headed. Would road salt levels continue … and reservoirs larger than 2.5 acres. Each point on the map represents a lake or reservoir. The predictions assume that … to explore how other forms of global change — such as land use or climate change — alter both precipitation and …

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  10. Living with wildfire: Q&A with Winslow Hansen, Forest Ecologist

    … about what we are experiencing, what we can expect in the future, and why we need to advance predictive fire science. … Climate change driven drought is causing fuels to dry out, increasing flammability and the frequency of fires. … water. This causes water to be increasingly pulled from the land’s surface, which dries out trees, downed branches, …

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