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| Ready for That Rush of Adrenaline This new two-floor store is full of top-of-the-line equipment and clothing for outdoorsy types who want to look as if they’ve been around. travel.nytimes.com |
Chinese demand threatens Philippine sea cucumbers Human consumption of several species of sea cucumbers in the Philippines could soon drive them extinction, according to Cesario R. Pagdilao, deputy executive director of the Philippine Council for Aquatic Marine Research and Development. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Quiet year for twister research in Tornado Alley The 100-plus researchers who set out earlier this year on the biggest scientific twister hunt in history have returned with few tornado tales to tell. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Linked Challenges: Climate Change and Energy Use [ The following is an exact transcript of this podcast. ]"The energy we use can sustain our planet, or destroy it." So said U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday while addressing the United Nations , talking about the twin challenges of climate change and energy consumption. [More] rss.sciam.com |
U.S. Forest Service to Adapt Woodland Management to Climate Change Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell has directed the agency's regions and research stations to jointly produce draft "landscape conservation action plans" by March 1 to guide its day-to-day response to climate change.In a memo earlier this month requesting the plans, Tidwell said climate change is "dramatically reshaping" how the agency will deliver on its mission of sustaining the health and diversity of the nation's forests . He focused particularly on water management . [More] rss.sciam.com |