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Researchers develop virtual streams to help restore real ones

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a unique new computer model called the Virtual StreamLab, designed to help restore real streams to a healthier state. The Virtual StreamLab, which demonstrates the ...


Sandia announces completion of mixed waste landfill cover construction

Sandia announces completion of mixed waste landfill cover construction

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Environmental Restoration Project at Sandia National Laboratories reports the successful construction of an alternative evapotranspirative cover at the Mixed Waste Landfill (MWL) in September. The 2.6-acre ...


Lagoon size can be predicted

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The size of Santa Barbara area lagoons can be predicted, according to a new study by UC Santa Barbara scientists, who say that their research could help protect the endangered steelhead trout.


Conservation targets too small to stop extinction

Conservation targets too small to stop extinction: study

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Conservation biologists are setting their minimum population size targets too low to prevent extinction, according to a new study led by University of Adelaide.


Living, Meandering River Constructed

Living, Meandering River Constructed

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a feat of reverse-engineering, Christian Braudrick of University of California at Berkeley and three coauthors have successfully built and maintained a scale model of a living meandering ...


Tennessee foresters helping to return chestnuts to American forests

Tennessee foresters helping to return chestnuts to American forests

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The American chestnut was a dominant species in eastern U.S.'s forests before a blight wiped it out in the early 1900s. Today it's being returned to the landscape thanks in part to work by a University of ...


New water-depth evaluation system will aid Everglades research, study shows

New water-depth evaluation system will aid Everglades research, study shows

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When scientists discuss Everglades restoration, one phrase pops up again and again -- "getting the water right."


Scientists warn restoration-based environmental markets may not improve ecosystem health

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

While policymakers across of the globe are relying on environmental restoration projects to fuel emerging market-based environmental programs, an article in the July 31 edition of Science by two noted ecologists warns that t ...


Researchers find fertile pastures

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Queensland researchers are breaking new ground in rainforest regeneration.


NOAA chief says new ocean uses creating conflicts (AP)

NOAA chief says new ocean uses creating conflicts

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- New pressures on the nation's oceans, from wind turbines to fish farms, are increasingly sparking conflicts with more traditional activities such as shipping and recreational boating and show the ...


NASA lost moon footage, but Hollywood restores it (AP)

NASA lost moon footage, but Hollywood restores it (Update)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (7) | comments 13

(AP) -- NASA could put a man on the moon but didn't have the sense to keep the original video of the live TV transmission.


EPA appoints czar for Great Lakes clean up (AP)

Cameron Davis appointed as Great Lakes czar

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Cameron Davis, leader of a Chicago-based environmentalist group, has been appointed to oversee President Barack Obama's initiative to clean up the Great Lakes.


Obama wants to pump $475M into Great Lakes cleanup (AP)

Obama wants to pump $475M into Great Lakes cleanup

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 6

(AP) -- A budget proposal from the Obama administration would spend $475 million on beach cleanups, wetlands restoration and removal of toxic sediments from river bottoms around the Great Lakes.


Large sponges may be reattached to coral reefs

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

April 27, 2009 - A new study appearing in Restoration Ecology describes a novel technique for reattaching large sponges that have been dislodged from coral reefs. The findings could be generally applied to the restoration of oth ...


Cropland diversity reduces nitrogen pollution

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

LSU researchers have identified a link between the diversity of crops grown in farmlands and the pollution they create in lakes and rivers. In a Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment e-View paper, these ecologists show t ...