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In 2020, engineers pumped 225,000 cubic yards of dredged sediment into the Columbia River; it became four new islands now being studied as salmon habitat

[ad_1] Brian Ekstrom and Lance Downing pulling the beach seine to collect juvenile fish at a restoration site on the lower Columbia River A routine dredging project on the Lower Columbia River has become a major long-term experiment to see whether dredged sediment can be used to restore lost wildlife habitat.In October 2020, engineers pumped…

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in 1922 olaus murie entered alaska to study caribou helping change how scientists understood wildlif

In 1922, Olaus Murie entered Alaska to study caribou, helping change how scientists understood wildlife and ecosystems

[ad_1] In 1922, biologist Olaus J. Murie entered Alaska’s vast wilderness to study caribou, beginning a body of field research that would eventually influence how scientists and park managers understood wildlife as part of interconnected ecosystems. Murie had been hired by the US Biological Survey as a wildlife biologist and spent much of the early…

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scientists in austria found that a glyphosate based herbicide reduced earthworm reproduction by 56 i

Scientists in Austria found that a glyphosate-based herbicide reduced earthworm reproduction by 56% in a greenhouse study

[ad_1] Across the United States, glyphosate is applied across an enormous area of farmland each year. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, an average of 298 million acres of cropland receives glyphosate applications annually, giving a sense of how routinely the herbicide enters agricultural landscapes. Much of the attention around glyphosate has centred on…

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In 2017, a total solar eclipse changed animal behaviour as scientists watched 17 species react to sudden darkness

[ad_1] On 21 August 2017, the afternoon light at Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, South Carolina, began to fade. For the people gathered there, the approaching darkness was an astronomical spectacle. For the animals living outside in the zoo’s enclosures, it was something rather different: daylight was suddenly behaving as if evening had arrived. Researchers had…

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One-third of global farmland accounts for about two-thirds of agriculture-linked biodiversity and natural carbon-storage loss, a new study finds

[ad_1] Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland A single third of the world’s agricultural land is responsible for roughly two-thirds of all farming-related biodiversity loss and the loss of natural carbon storage, according to a global study published in Nature Food.The research, led by scientists from Leiden University’s Institute…

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