September, 1975 My parents are married by a Justice of the Peace in Davidson County, North Carolina. My dad is working for both Thomasville Furniture and Wall Trucking while my mom works in the officePosted by: Jeff Atkins
My #CO2andMe Story
September, 1975 My parents are married by a Justice of the Peace in Davidson County, North Carolina. My dad is working for both Thomasville Furniture and Wall Trucking while my mom works in the officeComing Down the Mountain: How Changes in the Water Cycle are Affecting Mountain Ecosystems
As plants take in sunlight and carbon dioxide to grow, they also respire or “breath” out part of that carbon dioxide back to the atmosphere. When this occurs belowground from the plant’s roots, it’sPosted by in climate change, conservation, ecology, featured, geography, hydrology, Montana, mountains, new research, PLoS, PLOS One, science
Mark Twain and The Big Stump: Can We Save Nature From Ourselves?
As you enter Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Park from highway 180 there is a small little parking lot to the side with a couple of bathrooms and a non-descript, standard-issue, brown, wooden parkPosted by in biodiversity, California, climate change, conservation, ecology, Ethics, Evolution, featured, forests, geography, PLoS, trees
Snapshots of Change and The PhenoCam Network: What Are 130 Cameras Telling Us About Our Changing Planet?
0000-0002-8715-2896 As flowers began to bloom and leaves slowly emerge in the northern hemisphere this time of year, most people are thinking about how they soon get to lose the winter coat and enjoy thePosted by in biodiversity, climate change, conservation, ecology, featured, geography, imagery, natural history, new research, Phenology, remote sensing, science
Urban Forestry In the Schoolyard: New PLOS ONE Research on Trees and Student Performance
0000-0002-8715-2896 Research into how nature impacts our well-being has shown that being outside makes us feel better. Images of nature alone have been shown to lift people’s mood. But is there any connection with howHow do you count all those trees, anyway?
0000-0002-8715-2896 Like many scientists, Jean-François Bastin and colleagues had a question. A question that on its surface seems like it may have an obvious answer, or at least, an obvious way to find out theThe Science of Spring
0000-0002-8715-2896Source: The Science of Spring I have to admit, at first I didn’t really notice. I live in Virginia, a state in the approximate middle of the east coast of the US. The city IAverage Distance to the Nearest Forest is Increasing with Forest Loss in the US
0000-0002-8715-2896Source: Average Distance to the Nearest Forest is Increasing with Forest Loss in the US According to a new study published in PLOS ONE by Sheng Yang and Giogros Mountrakis from the State University ofChanging Our Attitudes Towards Invasive “Alien” Species
0000-0002-8715-2896Source: Changing Our Attitudes Towards Invasive “Alien” Species A guest post from Susanna Lidström of KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and Simon West of Stockholm University We often hear that complex environmentalWhat’s so “bad” about the Badlands, anyway?
0000-0002-8715-2896Source: What’s so “bad” about the Badlands, anyway? Authorized as a National Monument in 1929 and redesignated as a National Park in 1978, Badlands National Park in southwestern South Dakota is over 240,000 acres of