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How Cities Could Help Protect Species Threatened By Climate Change
It might seem counterintuitive, but if cities and towns were properly designed, they could help species face the threat posed by climate change.
USGS Kicks Off Innovative Project to Study Harmful Algal Blooms in New York
This week USGS scientists, with support from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, installed technologically advanced monitoring systems to study water-quality conditions and harmful algal blooms—known as HABs—in Owasco and Seneca lakes.
Yellowknife Health Effects Monitoring Program Completes Baseline Study
Dr. Laurie Chan and his team from the University of Ottawa are pleased to announce that the first phase of the Yellowknife Health Effects Monitoring Program (YKHEMP) is complete.
New Study Shows Climate Change, Maternal Care, Parasitic Infection All Connected in South American Fur Seals
South American fur seal pups with high levels of hookworm infection spend more time in the water, but that’s not necessarily a good thing, report Morris Animal Foundation-funded researchers at the University of Georgia.
A Giant Beaver Tale Of Extinction
About 10,000 years ago, giant beavers roamed the North American continent, along with now-extinct woolly mammoths and mastodons.