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• Can nature help us withstand climate impacts?

  
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  PhysOrg : Flooding, landslides, crop failure, water shortages. Across the globe, the frequency with which humans are suffering the ill effects of climatic variability and extreme weather events is on the increase. Can natural environments be used effectively to help people adapt to the effects of climate change? The ...
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• Scientists discover that marine animals disperse seagrass

  
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  Lesser known than coral reefs, marine seagrass ecosystems are rich in biodiversity and are powerhouses when it comes to sequestering carbon dioxide. Yet, much remains unknown about the ecology of seagrass beds, including detailed information on how seagrass spread their seeds and colonize new area. Now a recent study ...
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• How Can Cambodia Sustain Its Freshwater ‘Fish Factory’?

  
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  Tonle Sap has been called the beating heart of Cambodia. We want to see it keep beating.
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• Top Cats: How Pumas and Other Apex Predators' Populations Affect The Big Biodiversity Picture

  
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  The cat of many names–mountain lion, puma, cougar, catamount, panther, to name a few–speaks to the once widespread distribution of Puma concolor across the continent. The wide-ranging carnivore can adapt to nearly any landscape. It remains to be seen whether it can adapt to the expansive activities of the human ...
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• Europe bans pesticides linked to bee collapse

  
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  The EU has banned three neonicotinoid pesticides (imidacloprid, clothianidin and thiamethoxam) linked to the decline of bees for two years. The ban will apply to all flowering crops, such as corn, rape seed, and sunflowers. The move follows a flood of recent studies, some high-profile, that have linked neonicotinoid ...
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• What if companies actually had to compensate society for environmental destruction?

  
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  The environment is a public good. We all share and depend on clean water, a stable atmosphere, and abundant biodiversity for survival, not to mention health and societal well-being. But under our current global economy, industries can often destroy and pollute the environment—degrading public health and ...
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• Green Infrastructure: A Landscape Approach

  
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  Green infrastructure is starting to mean different things to different people, said David Rouse, ASLA, a landscape architect and planner at Wallace, Roberts & Todd (WRT) during a session at the American Planning Association (APA) conference in Chicago. Rouse was there with Theresa Schwarz, Kent State ...
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• Recap: Peter Seligmann’s Twitter Chat

  
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  CI supporters came with thoughtful questions to our CEOs first-ever Twitter chat.
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• Cloud Forest Protection Critical To Keep Tropical Dams Running

  
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  These forests filter about half the water that flows to dams in tropical regions.
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• Rivers act as “horizontal cooling towers,” study finds

  
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  University of New Hampshire Media Relations : Running two computer models in tandem, scientists from the University of New Hampshire have detailed for the first time how thermoelectric power plants interact with climate, hydrology, and aquatic ecosystems throughout the northeastern U.S. and show how rivers serve as ...
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• Forest conservation could reduce malaria transmission

  
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  María Elena Hurtado in SciDev.net : Preserving the biodiversity of tropical forests could have the added benefit of cutting the spread of malaria, according to a new study. The finding contradicts the traditional view that clearing native forest for agriculture curbs malaria transmission in the Amazon rainforest. ...
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• CI Photojournal: Nature Meets Culture in South America

  
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  In some of the most beautiful and vulnerable places around the world, every day is Earth Day.
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• Featured video: local communities successfully conserve forests in Ethiopia

  
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  A participatory forest management (PFM) program in Ethiopia has made good on forest preservation and expansion, according a recent article and video interview (below) from the Guardian. After 15 years, the program has aided one community in expanding its forest by 9.2 percent in the last decade, while still allowing ...
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• In Tanzania, Nature Provides Unseen Value for Farmers

  
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  Food security initiatives in Africa often dont account for the value of ecosystems for agricultural productivity.
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