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  1. Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost?

    … salts increase the salt concentration of water sources and soil. This affects the growth of roadside plants, and can … as 2006, China’s central government published the “Technical specifications for snow removal operations on city … roadside vegetation. Kelly said she was unable to comment on whether straw agents were an effective solution …

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

    … been growing increasingly salty due to road de-icing, but a new analysis suggests with careful action, concentrations … every winter — mostly in the form of sodium chloride. Rain and melting snow carry this salt into local waterways … it can leach toxic metals and radioactive materials from soil and water pipes. Solomon saw the upward-trending …

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  3. To Be Equitable, US Urban Green Infrastructure Planning Must Transform

    … efforts also address social injustices and inequality? A new analysis in Landscape and Urban Planning concludes … equity planning principles. Rain garden in a vacant lot in Baltimore's McElderry Park … of the Urban Systems Lab. More details and other project publications can be found at www.giequity.org . …

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  4. Fifty-year-old law proves we can address environmental challenges

    … other pollutants ran uncontrolled into streams and rivers; drainage from coal mines made streams so acid that no fish could survive; and excessive nutrient … Clean Water Act back in 1972, and waited until we had the technical knowledge and political strength to put an ideal …

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  5. Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend

    … air - delivered as much or more nitrogen to forests than rainfall. Gary also advanced scientific understanding of … fun in the process. Better colleagues are hard to find,” comments Cary President Emeritus William Schlesinger. … & 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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  6. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … headaches began, the screams, the scans showing signs of brain inflammation. The adults didn’t know what was wrong … 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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  7. Beech Bark Disease

    … in the region where the trees are most abundant, including New York, New England, and southeastern Canada. What are … in the forest. Such shifts have important effects on soil development and nutrient cycling 2 . … In the fall, bears climb and shake beech trees to produce a rain of beech nuts, which the bears then eat from the …

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  8. Measuring the moisture in forest soils from space

    … This water provides critical support for life on Earth. Soil moisture regulates plant growth, affecting wildlife and … regulation. For example, you may have noticed that a heavy rain after a prolonged drought doesn’t change the water … around Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York. Instruments at these ground stations constantly …

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  9. With global challenges in mind, keeping a decades-long success story at the forefront

    Acid Rain , … was to strip the buffering capacity out of sensitive soils, for instance the White Mountains of New Hampshire and …

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  10. Ocean acidification

    … and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), dissolve in water, they make it acid.  When these gases are emitted as air pollutants, they cause acid rain in the regions downwind of the source.  The rain

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