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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
The São Francisco River drainage basin in Brazil’s Northeast region contains a substantial portion of the savanna-like Cerrado biome as well as large areas of Caatinga semi-arid thorn forest and some smaller fragments of Atlantic Rainforest.
As reservoir levels dwindle in the arid southwestern United States, scientists have developed a method to estimate summer rainfall in the region months in advance.
The new paper, published in Environmental Research Letters, highlighted how storing carbon in forests could tackle climate change.
In the Sierra Nevada, midwinter “rain-on-snow” events occur when rain falls onto existing snowpack and have resulted in some of the region’s biggest and most damaging floods.
CU Boulder study: trees outfitted with accelerometers could be the future of arborism, agriculture
The emergence of a new disease among turtles in Hervey Bay waters is also concerning researchers and rescuers.
