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Displaying 15 of about 141 resultsThe forests you see today are not what you will see in the future. That's the overarching finding from a new study on the resilience of Rocky Mountain forests, led by Colorado State University.
Researchers analyzed data from nearly 1,500 sites in five states -- Colorado, Wyoming, Washington, Idaho, and Montana -- and measured more than 63,000 seedlings…
By Dr. H. S. Suresh
Earth’s landscape has been subjected to both natural and anthropogenic fires for millions of years.
Natural, lightning-caused fires are known to have occurred in geological time continuously at least since the late Silurian epoch, 400 million years ago, and have shaped the evolution of plant communities.
Hominids have used control…
By Susmita Dasgupta
Massive flooding from storm surges is a major threat to lives and property in low-lying coastal areas during cyclones. Recent examples of devastating cyclone-induced storm surges include Haiyan 2013 (5.2m or 17 feet), Aila 2009 (4m/13ft), Ike 2008 (4.5m-6m/15-20 feet), Nargis 2008 (more than 3m/10ft), Sidr 2007 (4m /13ft), Katrina 2…
Without concerted government action, land degradation could destroy millions of livelihoods.
By Linus Unah
When Abbas Gandi lost a large portion of his crops to the combined ravages of desertification and drought a few years ago, he was so disillusioned he considered abandoning his 10-hectare farmland.
“It came as a shock; very terrible year. Instea…
Hundreds of trees will be planted across the Lake District today (Friday 10 February) in the first mass tree planting event ever attempted by the National Trust in the national park.
The trees will help reduce the impacts of future flooding and restore wood pasture habitats that have been lost, National Trust rangers say.
More than 90 people will plan…
Thimphu: As COP23 international climate talks continue in Bonn, Bhutan has launched a ground-breaking US$13.9 million Global Environment Facility project aimed at enhancing the resilience of communities and protecting the country’s unique and rich biodiversity in the face of a changing climate.
The UNDP-supported 'Enhancing Sustainability and Climate R…
By E. Vikram
The three-day international workshop on forest fires organized by the World Bank and the Forest Ministry of India is a watershed event in the management of forest fires in the country (1-3rd November 2017). On the first day, discussions were held on the latest technology being used to alert foresters to fires.
Almost all fires in India a…
By Rebecca Lindsey
Anyone who has escaped into the woods on a scorching summer day—or scored the coveted space under a parking lot’s only tree—would probably have a hunch about how cutting down forests could affect summer heat. New NOAA modeling research backs up those hunches with numbers. In many parts of the mid-latitudes, including the United Stat…
By Andrea Elyse Messer
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Flooding in Texas and again in Louisiana, a category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic hammering Caribbean islands and Florida and, of course, memories of Sandy and Katrina place extreme weather events like hurricanes and the flooding, storm surge and winds that accompany them in the minds of people in the storms…
Indonesia is recruiting tribespeople to help fight outbreaks of haze which shroud Southeast Asia every year with a government deal designed to tap into traditional ways of containing forest fires.
The region suffers every dry season from a haze caused by smouldering fires, often set deliberately to clear land for pulp and paper and palm oil plantations…
Natural measures to manage flooding from rivers can play a valuable role in flood prevention, but a lack of monitoring means their true potential remains unclear, researchers say.
Such measures, including river restoration and tree planting, aim to restore processes that have been affected by human activities such as farming, land management and house-…
Led by Victoria alumnus Grant O’Brien for his Master’s thesis, the research highlights the impact earthquakes can have on groundwater systems hundreds of kilometres away.
The research was based in the Cromwell Gorge and made use of a large hydrological dataset that has recorded groundwater responses to a series of earthquakes that have occurred in the…
A mix of high-tech satellite data and brightly coloured cartoons is helping subsistence farmers around Riberalta in Bolivia's northern Amazon pick the best time to burn off their land and reduce the risk of uncontrolled blazes, as persistent drought makes wildfires a hot issue in Latin America.
"Fire is a real problem with these communities - it's some…
By Luke Kelly, Eduard Plana Bach and Marc Font Bernet
In Italy, firefighters across the country are battling hundreds of wildfires, the flames fanned by a combination of heat and drought.
This is just the latest in a succession of fires in the Mediterranean. In June, forest fires in Portugal killed 64 people in Pedrógão Grande, in the Leira district,…
Scientists and business experts from Trinity College Dublin are leading a €12m Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme-funded project to bring nature back into cities across Europe. The Connecting Nature project will see 37 organisations from 19 countries work together to establish Europe as a global leader in rethinking how 21st Century cities c…