by Admin | Dec 13, 2017 | Climate Change
Although it’s well known that ice storms wreak havoc on forests and communities, but scientists are not sure how ice storms affect long-term forest health. But a team of researchers is aiming to find out. Ecologist Lindsey Rustad is a scientist with the USDA Forest...
by Admin | Nov 22, 2017 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
Twenty-five years ago a group of 1,700 independent scientists, most of them Nobel laureates, joined the Union of Concerned Scientists in issuing a manifesto called the “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity.” It was pretty much as dire as it sounds. Gathering together...
by Admin | Nov 15, 2017 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards, Information
In 2014, a landslide in Oso, Washington, sent 270 million cubic feet of mud through a neighborhood, killing 43 people and destroying 49 homes. The slide covered a 1-square-mile area, and it is the deadliest landslide in U.S. history. An engineering report found that...
by Admin | Oct 18, 2017 | Climate Change
Everyone is talking about how climate change is influencing weather patterns in the Atlantic, where several intense hurricanes have wreaked havoc in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. But what about drylands? Does climate change affect them,...
by Admin | Sep 13, 2017 | Conservation
We’re all used to stories of dogs chasing cats, but now dogs are sniffing out cats. Big cats, that is. Scat-sniffing research dogs are helping scientists to get on the trail of endangered carnivores like jaguars, pumas, and bush dogs in the forests of northeastern...
