#Goats better than chemicals for curbing invasive marsh grassherbivores not herbicides may be the most effective way to combat the spread of one of the most invasive plants now threatening East Coast salt marshes a new Duke university-led
A nonnative perennial it can form dense stands of grass up to 10 feet high that block valuable shoreline views of the water kill off native grasses
They will earn the migration route by following the ultralight from White river Marsh in Wisconsin to the Gulf Coast of Florida.
The LA network encompasses the portions of the South Coast Air Basin that produce the most intense greenhouse gas emissions in California.
and the fishing industry new research links short-term reductions in growth and reproduction of marine animals off the California coast to increasing variability in the strength of coastal upwelling currents--currents that supply nutrients
Along the west coast of North america winds lift deep nutrient-rich water into sunlit surface layers fueling vast phytoplankton blooms that ultimately support fish seabirds and marine mammals.
The researchers demonstrated that growth patterns in blue oak trees near the coast are highly sensitive to the same climate factors associated with upwelling.
Few direct observations of the climate factors associated with upwelling along the west coast of North america go back more than 70 years.
Members of the team surveyed more than 1000 kilometres of coastline in Turkey and Greece where two species of rabbitfish have become dominant
whether the recovering marshes were again providing the essential service of buffering the Cape's coast against the Atlantic ocean's waves.
#Potato ravaging pest controlled with fungiapproximately six thousand hectares of Veracruz in the west coast of Mexico are dedicated to the production of potato (Solanum tuberosum) in
grasslands forests wetlands ocean aridlands islands and coasts. This year's report is also a five-year check in on the indicators presented in the inaugural 2009 State of the Birds report.
In general shorebirds along the coasts are squeezed into shrinking strips of habitat due to development. But among the 49 coastal species examined there has been a steady rise in population of 28 percent
since 1968--a direct result of the establishment of 160 national coastal wildlife refuges and nearly 600000 acres of national seashore in 10 states. â#ecause the'state of the birds'mirrors
the state of their habitats our national wildlife refuges national parks national seashores and other public lands are critical safe havens for many of these species--especially in the face of climate change--one of the biggest
Situated along the Atlantic coast of Brazil it once covered an area of nearly 1. 5 million square kilometres.
and city planners as the U s. population along the coastline continues to grow. The ability to mitigate the growing evidence of climate change along our coasts with rising sea levels already impacting coastlines in ways not imaged just a few years ago makes the data available through the Land Cover Atlas program critically important to coastal resilience planning said Margaret
Davidson National Ocean Service senior advisor for coastal inundation and resilience science services. C-CAP data identify a wide variety of land cover changes that can intensify climate change risks-for example forest
All C-CAP data sets are featured on the Digital Coast. Tools like the Digital Coast are important components of NOAA's National Ocean Service's efforts to protect coastal resources and keep communities safe from coastal hazards by providing data tools
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#Roadside research from pinelands and coast to coastroads are essentially the primary feature of human civilization at this point according to Dane Ward a doctoral student in environmental science at Drexel University who is presenting research at the Ecological Society
Southern sea otters also known as California sea otters live in the waters along the California coastline and range from San mateo County in the north to Santa barbara County in the South sea otters live offshore in forests of kelp--huge yellow-brown rubbery seaweed reaching from the sea floor to the surface like tall trees.
Using a 26-acre farm as her average Vorotnikova took data collected at UF's Gulf Coast Research
The convergence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers was historically one of the largest salmon bearing runs on the West Coast Lake said
To obtain the DNA of the cottontails in this study researchers collected the fecal pellets of 157 New england cottontails in southern Maine and seacoast New hampshire during the winters of 2007-2008 and 2008-2009.
and likely documented nearly all currently occupied New england cottontail patches in Maine and seacoast New hampshire.
El Niã o is an irregularly occurring phenomenon associated with warm ocean currents near the Pacific coast of South america that changes the pattern of tropical rainfall.
and Eastern seaboard--for decades there is little research quantifying the damage the new wave of worms cause
The paleo-salinity estimate for the modern sand tiger sharks is consistent with the continental shelf salinity present from Delaware south to Florida and from the coastline to roughly six miles offshore known hunting grounds for modern sand tiger sharks
#Comparison study of planting methods shows drilling favorable for organic farmingin the fertile growing regions of the central coast of California scientists are looking for ways to increase organic production of strawberry
In vegetable and strawberry systems in the central coast region of California grain drills are used commonly by medium-to large-scale farms
agriculture river floods coasts tourism energy droughts forest fires transport infrastructure and human health. The report also includes a pilot study on habitat suitability of forest tree species. Connie Hedegaard European Commissioner for Climate Action said:
Premature mortality accounts for more than half of the overall welfare losses (â20 billion) followed by impacts on coasts (â2 billion) and agriculture (â8 billion.
El Niã o which is the warming of the sea temperatures off the coast of Peru is expected to affect crops during September October and November.
hard clamsfour of the most common mosquito pesticides used along the east and Gulf coasts show little risk to juvenile hard clams and oysters according to a NOAA study.
Shellfish growers however are concerned that pesticide spraying near the coastlines may contaminate both their hatcheries and source waters.
These ecologically and economically important species inhabit tidal marsh habitats along the U s. Atlantic and Gulf of mexico coastlines.
and allows forests to store more carbon dioxideevery spring as the weather warms trees in forests up and down the east coast explode in a bright green display of life as leaves fill their branches
--which stretches along the eastern seaboard from Maine to Georgia and as far inland as Wisconsin--as well as a more granular measurement of individual sites.
California U s a. This tiny shrimp the smallest in the genus was identified from among specimens originally collected from a cave on that island of romance sunny Santa catalina off the coast of Southern California.
This species was discovered in underwater caves 30 miles off the southeast coast of Spain. Interestingly they are the same caves where carnivorous sponges were discovered first.
Similarly Ohio's forests--which are now recovering from heavy timber exploitation in the early 20th century--are expected to fare better than those in the arid west or along the coasts.
The massive Greenland ice sheet experiences annual melting at low elevations near the coastline but surface melt is rare in the dry snow region in its center.
A southern Brazil variety was brought to an area along the Gulf Coast probably near Punta Gorda;
and the underlying molecular mechanismsthe National institutes of health the Keck Center Nanobiology Training program of the Gulf Coast Consortia and the Baylor College of Medicine Medical scientist Training program supported the research.
and some of the fastest-growing metropolitan areasâ#The Gulf and Atlantic coasts are major producers of seafood
Overview) â#¢Coasts: More than 50%of Americans--164 million people--live in coastal counties with 1. 2 million added each year...
Coasts; NCA Highlights: Overview) Climate-Change Impacts on Key Sectors of Society and the U s. Economy â#¢Health:
But is it possible to optimize production across a much bigger area--say the whole East Coast of the United states?
What's driving the research are mounting concerns about food security across the Eastern Seaboard Region (ESR.
When the team used GAMCAF to predict how many potatoes the Eastern Seaboard could produce if all of its farmland was devoted to this single commodity they found the production capacity could be increased by as much as 40%over baseline values.
and Alberta with the potential to spread all the way to the Atlantic coast. Millions of acres of forest have been lost with severe economic and ecological impacts from a beetle outbreak ten times larger than previous outbreaks.
The scientists found Nosema at three sites along the coast and one interior site. At all of the sites they found only a small number of pesticides at low concentrations.
and dissolving stone monuments on the East Coast. Air pollution rose beginning with the Industrial revolution and started to improve when the U s. Clean Air Act of 1970 required coal power plants and other polluters to scrub sulfur out of their smokestacks.
if you disturb the ice sheet near the coast the glaciers will feel the push
They alter the community composition of near shore systems change sediment characteristics and facilitate the introduction of invasive species says the study.
Lepofsky says On the Northwest Coast we are fortunate to have both the tangible record of clam gardens
Although it used to occur all along the west coast from San diego to Washington state this wetland plant with delicate white flowers had dwindled to one population in a boggy wetland in San luis Obispo County.
Water parsley (Oenanthe sarmentosa) is a native plant that grows in wet areas along the west coast of North america.
Nobody disputes that the ancestors of Native american peoples came from Asia over the coast and interior of the land bridge during an ice age called the last glacial maximum
The idea that rising sea levels covered evidence of human migration to The americas has long been cited by researchers studying how early Native americans moved south along the Pacific coast as the glaciers receded and sea levels rose.
#Water filter from the sapwood in pine tree branchesif you've run out of drinking water during a lakeside camping trip there's a simple solution:
whether UK's coasts can sustain large-scale biofuel production. The consortium is led by Durham University and builds on a range of the university's previous collaborative projects which span its departments of Chemistry Biology Earth sciences and the Durham Business school.**
since 1983 at the world's largest breeding area for Magellanic penguins about halfway up the Atlantic coast of Argentina at Punta Tombo where 200000 pairs reside from September through February to have their young.
Besides the coast of Argentina Magellanic penguins also breed on the Chile-side of South america
Nearer to the Borneo coastline the New guinea Sago palm first appeared over 10000 years ago. This would have involved a voyage of more than 2200km from its native New guinea
next prefers fresh airoff the west coast of Peru seabirds deposit thick layers of guano that accumulates on the ground because of the lack of rain.
Now researchers from Wageningen University and Southern Illinois University revealed the effects of guano on the native trees of the arid coasts of South america.
& Society (CES) at Washington College has launched a partnership with four towns on Maryland's rural Eastern Shore that can serve as a national model for helping small communities make big reductions in energy consumption.
Partnerships with other county seats on the Eastern Shore will be forged in the second year. Shorepower is funded by a $150000 grant from Easton-based Town Creek Foundation.
We would like to see this project spread not only up and down the Shore but to the west as well he added.
but some spend the winter off the coast of Argentina while others winter off Chile.
The last major field program of research on internal-wave generation took place off the coast of Hawaii in 1999.
We had planned to drive up the coast for a few days but we went home after the first day,
Transporting the pot ale to a different stretch of coast where a pipe would expel it into the Sound of Islay was pricey.
like the East and West Coasts. I don't think, from a large consumer perspective, he said,
--if and when it arrives to our shores, it will be a stronger more evolved strain posing a significant threat to honey bees and our pollination services,
plus a lock of land every 10 miles--allowed California to be connected to the Eastern Seaboard in just seven years.
There's a lot of money on the West Coast to do new things. Seven out of 10 companies these entrepreneur guys start never succeed.
though Woodbury said one would fit in with the Lakeshore project) will have to convince local officials to drastically change their building codes.
Sea level rise is expected to force millions of Bangladeshis living along its coast to seek drier ground,
 Beddard s uncle is one of the largest organic farmers on the East Coast,
Rutgers East Coast research capabilities in drought-tolerant grass augments our own research facilities in the Midwest
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and mining or being displaced by government policies to protect forests and coasts. This trend will play out across the globe.
which works for the coastal preservation, said that the  Pondicherry harbor constructed in 1989 has blocked the natural movement of sand causing massive erosion to northern beaches  on India's  southeastern coast.
These photographs, part of an ongoing Nature of Los angeles series, tell the story that moves beyond the stories of concrete that often color depictions of the West Coast metropolis. LA is a place you can take for granted,
researchers will be flying up and down the West Coast shooting light pulses to create the most detailed map of the coast yet.
in addition to a hefty supply of fish and seafood fetched from its 100-mile coastline. Since the meltdown, Fukushima has dropped from the nation fourth-largest rice producer to its seventh
The efforts-such as planting trees along the shorelines of rivers to prevent soil erosion-are also creating jobs, the report,
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