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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
November 8, 2018 was a dry day in Butte County, California. The state was in its sixth consecutive year of drought, and the county had not had a rainfall event producing more than a half inch of rain for seven months.
Coral reefs are retreating from equatorial waters and establishing new reefs in more temperate regions, according to new research in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series.
UC Riverside scientists have decoded the genome of black-eyed peas, offering hope for feeding Earth’s expanding population, especially as the climate changes.
Combining data from a new generation of satellites with a sophisticated algorithm, a new monitoring system developed by researchers at the University of Bath with NASA could be used by governments or developers to act as a warning system ensuring large-scale infrastructure projects are safe.
It is a telling illustration of the precarious state of United States dams that the near-collapse in February 2017 of Oroville Dam, the nation’s tallest, occurred in California, considered one of the nation’s leading states in dam safety management.
Predators are not only a deadly threat to many animals, they also affect potential prey negatively simply by being nearby.
