Courtesy of UAlberta News University of Alberta researchers have developed guidelines that are being used by the timber industry and government foresters to get a jump on climate change when planting trees. Maps developed by Laura Gray, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Renewable Resources at the U of A, provide projections of climatically suitable habitat [...]

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Courtesy of Arizona State University News By Skip Derra Conversion of large swaths of Brazilian land for sugar plantations will help the country meet its needs for producing cane-derived ethanol, but it also could lead to important regional climate effects, according to a team of researchers from Arizona State University, Stanford University and the Carnegie [...]

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Courtesy of UBC University of British Columbia researchers have found that when the animals at the top of the food chain are removed, freshwater ecosystems emit a lot more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. “Predators are disappearing from our ecosystems at alarming rates because of hunting and fishing pressure and because of human induced changes [...]

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Courtesy of UC Berkeley News Center By Carol Ness A forest-to-be of redwood trees and red-berried toyon shrubs sprouted on a hillside near Lawrence Hall of Science over the weekend, thanks to the hard work of 100 volunteers from the UC Berkeley campus and community. The saplings are native species, and were planted to replace [...]

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Courtesy of The Australian National University Ecosystems worldwide are in danger of losing large, old trees forever, without more research and policy changes to better protect them, warns a new study published in Science. Lead author of the paper, Professor David Lindenmayer from the Fenner School of Environment and Society in the ANU College of [...]

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Courtesy of Penn State Live When you’re closely involved with something, it’s easy to take for granted how good it is. But for junior Veronica Pasi, spending 10 weeks last summer managing invasive plant species as part of a hands-on internship in Illinois’s Glacial Park provided a new appreciation for her Penn State education. A [...]

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Courtesy of FIU News FIU News recently caught up with agroecology students Nall Moonilall and Carin Luna at the organic garden on the Modesto A. Maidique Campus for a demonstration of how to propagate plants. Their plant of choice was an herb: tropical oregano. “It’s very easy to propagate,” said Moonilall. The students worked together [...]

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By Cathy Cockrell, UC Berkeley NewsCenter When Jeff Benca moved to Berkeley last month, he came so loaded with valuables he had to rent a truck. Make that a cargo van, air-conditioned to accommodate its contents — thousands of plant starts, many of them incredibly rare and entirely new to cultivation, all of them members [...]

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Researchers at The University of Western Australia have contributed to the first global analysis of carbon stored in seagrasses which shows they can hold as much carbon as the world’s temperate and tropical forests. The study ‘Seagrass Ecosystems as a Globally Significant Carbon Stock,’ published in the journal Nature Geoscience provides further evidence of the [...]

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Courtesy of A&M University Tamu Times Algae, tobacco, the food scraps from a discarded cafeteria tray — they may seem like an unlikely club, but all of these items are playing major roles in the world’s hunt for suitable alternative fuels. The earth’s supply of fossil fuel continues to diminish and oil prices are skyrocketing. [...]

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