Over a foot of rain fell on parts of South Dakota and Iowa in late June 2024, sending water over the banks of rivers.
Record Rainfall Floods Midwest
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Promising Initial Results in Biochar Field Trials
Trials have shown that adding relatively small amounts of biochar to soil can significantly increase the amount of nutrients essential for crop growth, boosting crop yield.
New Tipping Point Discovered Beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet
Warm water that seeps underneath can melt ice in way not yet included in models.
UKCEH's Contribution to Developing Biodiversity Indicators
Ambitious targets were set by the Environment Act 2021 of halting the decline in species populations by 2030 and to increase populations by at least 10% on 2030 levels by 2042.
To Foil a Deadly Pest, Scientists Aim for a Beetle-Resistant Ash Tree
The tree Radka Wildova and Jonathan Rosenthal wanted to show me was only a few hundred feet from the trail at Tivoli Bays, a state wildlife management area in Rhinebeck, New York. But getting to it required bushwhacking through a thicket of non-native honeysuckle, multiflora rose, and poison ivy.
Wildfires Increasingly Threaten Oil and Gas Drill Sites, Compounding Potential Health Risks, Study Says
More than 100,000 oil and gas wells across the western U.S. are in areas burned by wildfires in recent decades, a new study has found, and some 3 million people live next to wells that in the future could be in the path of fires worsened by climate change.
