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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
Re-establishing plantings of trees, grasses and other vegetation is essential for restoring degraded ecosystems, but a new survey of almost 2,600 restoration projects from nearly every type of ecosystem on Earth finds that most projects fail to recognize and control one of the new plants’ chief threats: hungry critters that eat plants.
As the world warms and ice sheets melt, the ocean continually rises.
In the 1980s, geophysicists made a startling discovery: two continent-sized blobs of unusual material were found deep near the center of the Earth, one beneath the African continent and one beneath the Pacific Ocean.
Research establishes a natural baseline for mercury in the atmosphere by estimating emissions from volcanic eruptions.
The influx of salt in streams and rivers is an ‘existential threat,’ according to a research team led by a UMD geologist.
Sunflowers famously turn their faces to follow the sun as it crosses the sky.
