Originally published by High Country News – For three years, researchers from Montana State University spent their summers collecting bear hair. The samples, collected on both sides of the 50 mile stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway that cuts through Banff National Park, prove what the researchers had suspected: wildlife underpasses and bridges were helping enough bears move back and forth across the highway to keep the populations healthy.
NASA 'Fire Towers' in Space Watch for Wildfires On the Rise
Originally published by ScienceDaily – The Black Forest wildfire this June was one of the most destructive in Colorado history, in terms of homes lost. It started close to houses and quickly spread through the ponderosa pine canopies on the rolling hills near Colorado Springs. The wildfire destroyed 500 homes in the first 48 hours and killed two people.
A Texan tragedy: ample oil, no water
Originally published by The Guardian – Fracking boom sucks away precious water from beneath the ground, leaving cattle dead, farms bone-dry and people thirsty.
Future water availability will alter electricity prices in Europe
Originally published in Environmental Research Letters (ERL) – The current European electricity-transmission infrastructure needs updating in the short term to cope with the future effects of climate change on electricity supply, according to a pan-European group of researchers.