Planners have come up with many innovative ways to prevent flooding caused by heavy downpours — from planting rain gardens to installing green roofs.
Focus Turns to Flood Prevention in Face of Climate Change
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New Insights into Engineering Climate Smart Crops for Future
New research in the field of plant sciences has made significant advances towards understanding the underlying reasons behind why certain crops are better at generating more yield than others.
The Ice in Antarctica Has Melted Before
Sixty per cent of the world’s fresh water is bound up in Antarctic ice sheets.
Astrocyte Cells Critical for Learning Skilled Movements
From steering a car to swinging a tennis racket, we learn to execute all kinds of skilled movements during our lives.
Hidden Ice Melt in Himalaya: Study
A new study reveals that the mass loss of lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya has been significantly underestimated, due to the inability of satellites to see glacier changes occurring underwater, with critical implications for the region's future projections of glacier disappearance and water resources.
UTIA Analyzes Strategic Cropping System to Promote Climate Change Resiliency
Researchers and Extension specialists at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture have received a grant to study alley cropping as a viable solution to mitigate crop stress and improve the sustainability of organic vegetable production amid climate extremes in the Southeast.
