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How to Save Europe's Most Threatened Butterflies
March 28, 2012 — New guidelines on how to save some of Europe’s most threatened butterfly species have now been published. The report covers 29 threatened species. The new report will provide crucial ... > full story -
Grasslands Soils Offer Some Insurance Against Climate Change
January 29, 2012 — The earth beneath our feet plays an important role in carbon storage – a key factor in climate change – and new research shows that in times of drought some types of soil perform better ... > full story -
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
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