News tagged with land management
Forest Service Web-based tool helps manage environmental risk
Sep 25, 2009 |
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The U.S. Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (EFETAC) recently launched the Comparative Risk Assessment Framework and Tools (CRAFT), a user-friendly, Web-based support system that helps natural ...
Exotic timber plantations found to use more than twice the water of native forests
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Ecologists have discovered that timber plantations in Hawaii use more than twice the amount of water to grow as native forests use. Especially for island ecosystems, these findings suggest that land management ...
Attempt to move Forest Service could spark turf war
Mar 01, 2009 |
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In what eventually could become a major bureaucratic turf war, there have been stirrings on Capitol Hill about moving the U.S. Forest Service from the Agriculture to the Interior Department.
Pathogenic soil bacterium is influenced by land management practices
Jan 21, 2009 |
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Researchers from Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin, Australia have found that the soil bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei, which causes the emerging infectious disease melioidosis in humans and animals, is ass ...
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Biofuel carbon footprint not as big as feared, research says
Jan 15, 2009 |
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Publications ranging from the journal Science to Time magazine have blasted biofuels for significantly contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, calling into question the environmental benefits of making fuel ...
A quarter of the world's population depends on degrading land
Mar 20, 2009 |
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A new study published in the journal Soil Use and Management attempts for the first time to measure the extent and severity of land degradation across the globe and concludes that 24% of the land area is degrading - ofte ...
A model to measure soil health in the era of bioenergy
Nov 19, 2008 |
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One of the biggest threats to today's farmlands is the loss of soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil organic matter (SOM) from poor land-management practices. The presence of these materials is essential as they do everything ...
No-tillage plus
Jul 28, 2008 |
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Tropical soils often behave differently than temperate soils when being farmed. In tropical regions, soils lose nutrients quickly when cultivated. With food shortages looming and soil quality declining rapidly, new farming ...
Reducing greenhouse gases may not be enough to slow climate change
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning Professor Brian Stone publishes a paper in the December edition of Environmental Science and Technology that suggests policymakers need to address the influence of global deforestation ...
Montana man gets 60 days for dinosaur bones theft
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 02, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A commercial fossil hunter, whose discovery of the world's best-preserved dinosaur brought scientific acclaim, will serve 60 days in jail for stealing raptor bones from private land.
New tool gets handle on cropland CO2 emissions
Feb 09, 2009 |
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For the first time, farmers have data that tracks at the county level on-site and off-site energy use and carbon dioxide emissions associated with growing crops in the United States.
Intensive land management leaves Europe without carbon sinks
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 23, 2009 |
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A new calculation of Europe's greenhouse gas balance shows that emissions of methane and nitrous oxide tip the balance and eliminate Europe's terrestrial sink of greenhouse gases.
Purdue-developed tool can get most pollution control for the money
Jun 15, 2009 |
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There may be thousands of things large and small that can be done to better control pollution on even the smallest waterways, and a new tool developed at Purdue University may help sort out how to choose the best ones.
New study predicts future consequences of a global biofuels program
Oct 22, 2009 |
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A report examining the impact of a global biofuels program on greenhouse gas emissions during the 21st century has found that carbon loss stemming from the displacement of food crops and pastures for biofuels ...
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