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Deer Ridge, Rocky Mountain National Park

Tree deaths have doubled across the western US

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (11) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study led by the U.S. Geological Survey and involving the University of Colorado at Boulder indicates tree deaths in the West's old-growth forests have more than doubled in recent decades, ...





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Holy Guacamole: Researcher Tracks Invasive Beetle Threatening Florida's Avocados

Biology /

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A researcher at North Carolina State University is tracking the movement of the Redbay Ambrosia beetle, an invasive insect that, if it spreads to southeast Florida, may severely affect the production of avocados, ...


Indianapolis trees provide $5.7M in benefits

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 15, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 1

U.S. Forest Service scientists with the Center for Urban Forest Research have completed a study that found planting and nurturing Indianapolis street trees brought a 500 percent return in benefits from storm water reduction, ...


Study finds hemlock trees dying rapidly, affecting forest carbon cycle

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created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research by U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists and partners suggests the hemlock woolly adelgid is killing hemlock trees faster than expected in the southern Appalachians and rapidly altering ...


New Southern California beetle killing oaks

Biology / Ecology

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

U.S. Forest Service scientists have completed a study on a beetle that was first detected in California in 2004, but has now attacked 67 percent of the oak trees in an area 30 miles east of San Diego.


Research finds mangroves being fed to death

Research finds mangroves being fed to death

Biology / Ecology

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New UQ Science research has found the increase in nutrients coming out of our river systems is putting pressure on our mangrove forests and making them far more susceptible to environmental ...


Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Infestation

Loss of hemlocks will affect water dynamics in southern Appalachian forests

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 09, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Forest Service (FS) research has provided the first estimates on the impact the loss of eastern hemlock will have on the water dynamics of the southern Appalachian mountains. In the June 2007 issue of Ecological ...


Pioneering landscape-scale research releases first findings

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 16, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The May issue of the Canadian Journal of Forest Research presents the preliminary findings of 23 scientists involved in one of the first landscape-scale experiments on how forest management affects western Ponderosa pine e ...


Danger lurks underground for oak seedlings

Danger lurks underground for oak seedlings

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Scientists trying to understand why oaks are starting to disappear from North American forests may need to look just below the surface to find some answers.


Widowed facing higher mortality risk, MSU researcher finds

Widowed facing higher mortality risk, researcher finds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Married people in the United States are living longer these days, but the widowed are experiencing a higher mortality rate, according to new research by a Michigan State University sociologist.


The desert is dying

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 14, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers from University of Bergen have found that trees, which are a main resource for desert people and their flocks, are in significant decline in the hyper-arid Eastern Desert of Egypt.



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