Tag: Coasts
Protecting the world’s wetlands: 5 essential reads
Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation
World Wetlands Day on Feb. 2 marks the date when 18 nations signed the Convention on Wetlands in 1971, in the...
Mapping the world’s ‘blue carbon’ hot spots in coastal mangrove forests
Robert Twilley, Louisiana State University and Andre Rovai, Louisiana State University
Human actions have boosted carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere to levels...
US rivers are becoming saltier – and it’s not just from...
Sujay Kaushal, University of Maryland; Gene E. Likens, University of Connecticut; Michael Pace, University of Virginia, and Ryan Utz, Chatham University
The United States has...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
