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When ‘Eradicated’ Species Bounce Back With a Vengeance

Science & Climate

A failure in science often leads to unexpected directions,” said lead author Edwin (Ted) Grosholz, a professor and ecologist with the UC Davis Department of Environmental Science and Policy. “We By 2013, the population had decreased from 125,000 to fewer than 10,000 individuals. Media contact(s). Press kit of photos.

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Supreme Court Granted Certiorari to a Clean Water Act Case: Hawai‘i Wildlife Fund v. County of Maui

Vermont Law

In June 2013, the University of Hawaii prepared the Lahaina Groundwater Tracer Study for the State of Hawai‘i Department of Health, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. The treated wastewater effluent that the County of Maui was injecting into its wells was making its way through the groundwater and into the ocean.

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Brood X Cicadas, Pt 1

Academy of Natural Sciences

Although the three 17-year cicada species occur across the eastern half of North America (from Kansas to the Atlantic Ocean) the different populations of the species don’t have the adults emerging in the same 17-year cycle. Brood II – next emergence in 2030 (last in 2013). This year they keep calling it Brood X. What does that mean?

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Community Science to the Rescue

Academy of Natural Sciences

On a beautiful sunny day in early summer, a group of community scientists led by Ron Smith — a Drexel University BEES instructor and high school environmental science teacher — was making the most of the beachy breeze on the Delaware Bay.

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Invisible World of Water Opens Nov. 13

Academy of Natural Sciences

1907-2013),?these?single-celled Some people call diatoms snow crystals of the sea. To pioneering Academy botanist? single-celled algae?that that exist in virtually every body of water (whether in a puddle?or or in the sea)?were?invisible invisible instruments whose?presence presence indicated?whether whether a creek, stream, river?or?ocean?was

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ESA Policy News: October 24, 2022

ESA

Kimmerer is currently a Distinguished Teaching Professor and Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Notably, Kimmerer is the author of the 2013 New York Times bestseller Braiding Sweetgrass. Comments are due Oct.

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ESA Policy News: August 16, 2021

ESA

The report’s authors conclude that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land and that widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred. Commerce, Science and Transportation. The world has already warmed 1.1 Allocation : $83 billion. Chair : Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA).

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