How Scientists Are Cleaning Up Rivers Using Grasses and Oysters
[ad_1] One hundred miles north of Philadelphia, the Billion Oyster Project has been restoring the bivalves in New York Harbor since 2010, engaging more than 10,000 volunteers and 6,000 students…
These Trees Are Spreading North in Alaska. That’s Not Good
[ad_1] In the summer of 2019, Roman Dial and his friend Brad Meiklejohn hired a single-engine bush plane out of Kotzebue, on the northwest coast of Alaska. Even those wings…
The Hidden Chaos That Lurks in Ecosystems
[ad_1] By the early ’90s, ecologists had amassed enough time-series data sets on species populations and enough computing power to test these ideas. There was just one problem: The chaos…
The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi River
[ad_1] The LSU report, though, became best known for its proposed solution, which focused on counteracting levees. The authors suggested that some water and mud be diverted out of the…
The UK Is Reintroducing Bison to Supercharge Biodiversity
[ad_1] The Wilder Blean project, like many of its ilk, is inspired largely by the work of Dutch ecologist Frans Vera. In his influential book Grazing Ecology and Forest History,…
Why the Arctic Is Warming 4 Times as Fast as the Rest of Earth
[ad_1] All the extra warmth of summer is also getting trapped in the Arctic Ocean, then released throughout the winter. “The greatest warming in the Arctic is happening in winter,…