TOP 100 CAMPING SITES
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| Ocean Noise Clue to Climate Change [The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.]Seismologists spend a lot of time listening to the earth. Ocean acoustic monitors have been providing information on the earth’s vibrations since the 1930’s. But there are other sounds those monitors pick up as well, for instance those of waves and choppy waters. These sounds are usually considered just noise and are filtered out of the equation. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Leader Is Picked for Park Service An overseer of national parks in Western states, Jon Jarvis has angered a senator and other backers of a California oyster farm. nytimes.com |
As Wood Chippers Whine, Central Park’s Toll of Uprooted Trees Rises After a storm felled about 500 trees, an arboreal trauma team fanned out through sections of Central Park and Riverside Park, mapping the devastation for hard decisions ahead. nytimes.com |
New tools in the fight against frog-killing fungus available online As the deadly chytrid fungus ( Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, or Bd ) continues its spread around the globe , putting thousands of amphibian species at risk of extinction, scientists are taking a few steps to control it, or at least understand it bette rss.sciam.com |
Could Re-Wilding Avert the 6th Great Extinction? [Slide Show] Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Caroline Fraser's book Rewilding the World .Over the years, coyotes ate many of Michael Soulé’s cats. For most people, this might have been the end of the story, a nasty reminder of nature’s darker proclivities. But Michael Soulé is not most people. [More] rss.sciam.com |