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Southwood Prize 2020: early career researcher winner announced

The Applied Ecologist

We’re excited to announce Pu Jia as the winner of this year’s Southwood Prize, celebrating the best paper by an early career researcher in the 2020 (57th) volume of Journal of Applied Ecology. Pu’s winning paper is Plant diversity enhances the reclamation of degraded lands by stimulating plant–soil feedbacks.

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Ecological Solutions and Evidence Prize 2020: early career researcher winner announced

The Applied Ecologist

We’re excited to announce Christina Service as the winner of the inaugural Ecological Solutions and Evidence Prize, celebrating the best Research Article in the journal by an author at the start of their career. Winner: Christina Service Research: “Spatial patterns and rarity of the white?phased

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A journey of a plant biologist: Back to the wild to solve current crises.

HumanNature

Guest Post By Janak Joshi , 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture at Colorado State University Natural, ferocious, hard, and resilient are all characteristics of the wild.

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UPDATE: Ohio Waives Clean Water Act 401 Certification for 16 Nationwide Permits

Vorys Law

With respect to the 16 NWPs covered under the January 13, 2021 final rule, the Army Corps issued the Ohio-specific Regional Conditions on October 13, 2020 and set a deadline of December 12, 2020 (before the new NWPs were finalized) for Ohio to submit its 401 water quality certification (WQC) for the 16 NWPs.

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Melting glaciers have been shifting the Earth’s poles since 1995, new study suggests

Physics World

The research suggests that the average speed of the eastward drift of the poles in 1995–2020 is about 3 mm/year – which is about 17 times faster than the average speed observed in 1981–1995. While significant, the shift is too small to be noticed in our daily lives.

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Dismissal of New York City’s Climate Change Suit Affirmed by Second Circuit On Preemption Grounds

MGKF Law

222 (2020)). See Mayor & City Council of Baltimore v. BP p.l.c., 3d 538, 548 (D. as amended (June 20, 2019), aff’d , 952 F.3d 3d 452 (4th Cir.), granted , 141 S. Read More » Tags: Air , Clean Air Act , Climate Change , New York , Preemption , Second Circuit.

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Surprising physics that we depend on for existence

Physics World

2020 Icon Books £9.99hb 160pp. At the very end Gribbin gives his own conclusion about the existence of intelligent life like us elsewhere in the heavens. I won’t spoil his answer to this grand question here, but I will say that, perhaps in keeping with the four stages of acceptance, I was left quite surprised.

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