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Overgrazed Grasslands Tied to Locust Outbreaks
January 26, 2012 — Scientists have shown that insect nutrition and agricultural land management practices may partially explain modern day locust ... > full story -
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Global Research Consortium Presents Findings on Safety of Genetically Modified Food
January 24, 2012 — A three-year feeding study has shown no adverse health effects in pigs fed genetically modified (GM) maize. The maize, which is a Bt-maize bred for its insect resistant properties, was sourced from ... > full story -
Better Way to Gauge Climate Costs of Land Use Changes
January 8, 2012 — Those making land use decisions to reduce the harmful effects of climate change have focused almost exclusively on greenhouse gases -- analyzing, for example, how much carbon dioxide is released when ... > full story -
Climate Change May Bring Big Ecosystem Shifts, NASA Says
December 18, 2011 — By 2100, global climate change will modify plant communities covering almost half of Earth's land surface and will drive the conversion of nearly 40 percent of land-based ecosystems from one major ... > full story -
Farming Crucial for Threatened Species in Developing World
December 5, 2011 — A number of threatened species in the developing world are entirely dependent on human agriculture for their survival, according to new ... > full story -
Great Plains River Basins Threatened by Pumping of Aquifers
November 18, 2011 — Suitable habitat for native fishes in many Great Plains streams has been significantly reduced by the pumping of groundwater from the High Plains aquifer – and scientists analyzing the water ... > full story -
Savannas and Forests in a Battle of the Biomes
October 31, 2011 — Climate change, land use and other human-driven factors could pit savannas and forests against each other by altering the elements found by researchers to stabilize the two. Without this harmony, the ... > full story -
Visual Tour of Earth's Fires
October 20, 2011 — NASA has released a series of new satellite data visualizations that show tens of millions of fires detected worldwide from space since ... > full story -
From Tropics to Poles: Study Reveals Diversity of Life in Soils
October 18, 2011 — Microscopic animals that live in soils are as diverse in the tropical forests of Costa Rica as they are in the arid grasslands of Kenya, or the tundra and boreal forests of Alaska and Sweden, ... > full story -
Climatic Tipping Points for Tropical Forest and Savanna: Satellite Data Reveal Where They Are Most Vulnerable
October 13, 2011 — Tropical tree cover will jump sharply between a forested state and savanna or treeless conditions rather than respond smoothly to climate change, according to a new ... > full story
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