- 21. Water Management Grows Farm Profits
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- ... water management techniques make up a larger piece of a sustainability plan. There is mounting concern around the globe about water scarcity. This is due to urban sprawl, depleting water supplies in some ...
- Created on 03 December 2019
- 22. Could Massive Storm Surge Barriers End the Hudson River’s Revival?
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- ... was the river particularly imperiled by diversions or urban sprawl, like others on the list. For the first time in its history, American Rivers had singled out a waterway solely on the possibility that ...
- Created on 24 September 2019
- 23. Forgotten Landscapes: Bringing Back the Rich Grasslands of the Southeast
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- ... acres from Maryland to East Texas, caught in a vise between habitat loss to agriculture and urban sprawl on the one hand, and encroaching fire-suppressed forest on the other. The Southeast is one of ...
- Created on 20 June 2019
- 24. Cities Under Pressure
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- ... sustainability objectives. These include minimising climate risks such as heat waves and flooding, reducing emissions from transport, constraining urban sprawl, making best use of our brownfield sites, ...
- Created on 29 March 2019
- 25. New Modeling Reveals Complex Dynamics of Climate Change, Heat-Mitigating Technologies
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- ... urban expansion and greenhouse gas emissions stoke the effects of climate change. Current climate projections show that in U.S. cities temperatures are expected to rise by 2 to 7 degrees Celsius (3.6 to ...
- Created on 12 November 2018
- 26. Increasing Heat Is Driving Off Clouds That Dampen California Wildfires
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- Sunny California may be getting too sunny. Increasing summer temperatures brought on by a combination of intensifying urbanization and warming climate are driving off once common low-lying morning clouds ...
- Created on 30 May 2018
- 27. Understanding how society will change as we move to renewable energy sources
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- ... Future Energy Systems energy humanities theme. ”Right now we live in sprawling urban communities with long commutes—we drive everywhere. If we don't have access to such powerful energy sources, and ou ...
- Created on 04 April 2018
- 28. CO2 Sensor Network Shows Effects of Metro Growth
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- A team led by atmospheric scientists Logan Mitchell and John Lin report that suburban sprawl increases CO2 emissions more than similar population growth in a developed urban core. In February 2001, ...
- Created on 06 March 2018
- 29. Researchers Identify Nontraditional Sites for Future Solar Farms
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- ... of California’s landmass, because it is an area where food production, urban development and conservation collide. Michael Allen, a distinguished professor emeritus of plant pathology and biology at UC ...
- Created on 20 December 2017
- 30. Amid environmental change, lakes surprisingly static
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- In recent decades, change has defined our environment in the United States. Agriculture intensified. Urban areas sprawled. The climate warmed. Intense rainstorms became more common. But, says a new University ...
- Created on 23 August 2017
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