Richard Chasey
Giant Sequoias Face Looming Threat from Shifting Climate
Originally Published by e360 - The world’s largest living species, native to California’s Sierra Nevada, faces a two-pronged risk from declining snowpack and rising temperatures.
Posted on
March 26th, 2013
Biodiversity, Climate
Resurrected mammoths and dodos? Don’t count on it | David Ehrenfeld
- Let's focus on conserving living animals, not on an expensive quest to bring back extinct ones – or some variation of them
Posted on
March 26th, 2013
Biodiversity
International Cooperation Key to World Water Day 2013
Originally Published by ENS - “Water is central to the wellbeing of people and the planet,” UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon said in his video message for the International Year of Water Cooperation 2013. “We must work together to protect and carefully manage this fragile, finite resource.”
Monument Valley timelapse
- Enjoy this timelapse video of the American Southwestern landscape as shot by Les Projections de la Cabane in September of 2009.
Posted on
March 25th, 2013
Ecosystems
New Jersey Eradicates Asian Long-Horned Beetles After 11-Year Fight
Originally Published by The NY Times - After 11 years, during which 20,000 trees were removed, the state has eradicated the Asian long-horned beetle.
Posted on
March 24th, 2013
Biodiversity
Plantwatch: Spring is in limbo as cold stops plants coming into bloom
- Spring is currently in limbo with few signs of wild flowers. The perishing cold has stopped lots of plants in their tracks.
Posted on
March 24th, 2013
Biodiversity
Rössing Uranium Mine
Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory - One of the world’s largest uranium mines is located in an arid desert near Namibia’s ephemeral Khan River.
Posted on
March 23rd, 2013
Earth Observation, Energy
What if Africa were to become the hub for global science?
- The potential for world-class science in sub-Saharan Africa.
Posted on
March 23rd, 2013
Education
Fossil bird study on extinction patterns could help today’s conservation efforts
Originally Published by ScienceDaily - A new study of nearly 5,000 Haiti bird fossils shows contrary to a commonly held theory, human arrival 6,000 years ago didn’t cause the island’s birds to die simultaneously.
Posted on
March 22nd, 2013
Biodiversity, Would You Believe?
Maurice Barbash, a Builder Who Fought for Fire Island, Dies at 88
- Mr. Barbash maintained the character of the landscape in his designs and took on a nuclear power company and Robert Moses to block projects that would have altered Long Island’s environment.
Posted on
March 22nd, 2013
Ecosystems
NASA Daily Image
Soyuz Rolls Out