Tag: Nutrient pollution
Computer science can help farmers explore alternative crops and sustainable farming methods
Barath Raghavan, University of Southern California and Michael Kantar, University of Hawaii
Humans have physically reconfigured half of the...
What is a wetland? An ecologist explains
Jon Sweetman, Penn State
Wetlands are areas of land that are covered by water, or have flooded or waterlogged...
Growing food and protecting nature don’t have to conflict – here’s...
Thomas Hertel, Purdue University
Growing food in a sustainable, environmentally friendly way – while also producing enough of it...
A few heavy storms cause a big chunk of nitrogen pollution...
Chaoqun Lu, Iowa State University
Some effects of extreme weather are visible – like half a million acres of flattened corn in Iowa left behind...
How your diet contributes to nutrient pollution and dead zones in...
Donald Scavia, University of Michigan
Every year in early summer, scientists at universities, research institutions and federal agencies release forecasts for the formation of “dead...
Small streams and wetlands are key parts of river networks –...
Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University
The Trump administration is proposing to redefine a key term in the Clean Water Act: “Waters of the United States.”...
Volcanic eruptions once caused mass extinctions in the oceans – could...
Jeremy D. Owens, Florida State University and Theodore R. Them II, College of Charleston
All animals, whether they live on land or in the water,...
Cutting pollution in the Chesapeake Bay has helped underwater grasses rebound
Bill Dennison, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Robert J. Orth, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Seagrasses are the “coastal canaries” of oceans...
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...
