Albedo adjustments may cause massive reductions to the local weather advantage of tree planting. New analysis helps establish areas world wide with the best climate-cooling potential. The Gist Planting timber…
This story is a part of a sequence designed to introduce the views of alumni from the Nationwide Geographic Society and The Nature Conservancy’s world youth externship program. Every visitor…
A conservation staff walks by hummocks of sphagnum moss, mist hanging within the scattered black spruce. They step onto comfortable, springy floor that squelches beneath their rubber boots, and a…
Analysis from French Polynesia and TNC’s Palmyra Atoll Protect reveals that, by feeding on microbial pathogens in marine sediment, the strange sea cucumber can improve reef resilience by suppressing coral…
Mark Twain as soon as wrote that, in a interval of 176 years, the decrease Mississippi River was shortened by 242 miles. Whereas the well-known writer used this in service…
The saltmarsh sparrow is a small puff of a hen that’s uniquely tailored to residing (and nesting) inside a habitat that floods commonly. Endemic to the east coast of the…
New science from Indo-Pacific atolls, together with TNC’s Palmyra Protect, reveals that international conservation efforts largely overlook the essential contributions of atolls to the safety, restoration potential, and long-term survival…
First examine of its sort reveals that a long time of coconut palm agriculture have led to deforestation on over 80 % of Pacific atolls, and coconut palms now cowl…
Boone Bowling is aware of what native residents say about his hometown of Middlesboro, Kentucky. The murmurs, the complaints. All his life he’s heard it: This place stinks. There’s nothing…
