Originally Published by e360 – Years of sanctions against Myanmar’s military regime helped protect its extensive wild lands. But as the country’s rulers relax their grip and welcome foreign investment, can the nation protect its forests and biodiversity while embracing development?
Originally Published by Earth Today – The Tibesti Mountains, located mostly in Chad with the northern slopes extending into Libya, are captured in this Envisat image.
– A team of University of Pennsylvania geologists and others used the occasion of the Mississippi River flood of the spring of 2011 to observe how floodwaters deposited sediment in the Mississippi Delta.
– U.S. and Canadian universities are joining forces to propose a set of long-term research and policy priorities to help protect and restore the Great Lakes and to train the next generation of scientists, attorneys, planners and policy specialists who will study them.
Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory – The colorful salt flat is a product of mineral-rich waters and a dry, flat landscape.
Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory – Kansas wetlands dry out across two rain-scarce summers.
Originally Published by ScienceDaily – Combine the tree-ring growth record with historical information, climate records, and computer-model projections of future climate trends, and you get a grim picture for the future of trees in the southwestern United States, according to a new study.
Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory – Linear dunes and ephemeral streams converge on the eastern margin of the Simpson Desert in a region known for its floods.
Originally Published by ENS – Provisions to deal with aquatic invasive species, habitat degradation and the effects of climate change are featured in the newly amended Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement signed by U.S. and Canadian officials today in Washington.
– A recent study shows that Ophiothela mirabilis, once restricted to Pacific waters, has been found at Brazilian and Caribbean ports in the Atlantic Ocean.
