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Living walls line Milan’s Bosco Verticale apartment building
Posted inNews

Cómo convertir nuestras ciudades en Treetopias

by Alan Simson 15 January 202129 September 2021

Estamos y seguiremos plantando más árboles callejeros, arboledas urbanas y cúmulos informales de árboles en nuestros parques y espacios verdes. La Treetopia ha comenzado.

Image of the urban center of Majuro in the Marshall Islands.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

To Save Low-Lying Atolls, Adaptive Measures Need to Start Now

by Rachel Fritts 22 October 2020

New research uses 5,000 years of geological data to understand how and when sea level rise will affect the livability of low-lying reef islands.

Two crimson-fronted cardinals perch on a leafy branch.
Posted inNews

Birds Are Getting Caged In at Brazil’s Savanna

by Meghie Rodrigues 11 August 202029 September 2021

Deforestation and climate change threaten life in the Cerrado. A new study shows how few places there are left to go.

A satellite image of urban sprawl in Shanghai
Posted inResearch Spotlights

The Urban Dry Island Effect

by E. Underwood 28 February 2019

A study of the Yangtze River Delta shows how urbanization dries out the atmosphere.

Trees poke through snow at the edge of a boreal forest
Posted inNews

Eyes in the Sky Look Closer at Under-Surveyed Northern Forests

by N. Lanese 14 December 201714 December 2017

Spaceborne images give scientists a detailed picture of the boreal forests’ tree heights, which help scientists estimate their contribution to carbon budgets. 

Residents in Beijing, China, line up to get water provided by a restaurant.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Modeling Beijing’s Water Crisis

by Elizabeth Thompson 25 October 2017

Beijing’s growing population is rapidly draining its water supplies. A new study examines how land use change affects groundwater storage beneath the megacity.

Marin Carbon Project rangeland
Posted inScience Updates

A New Platform for Managing Soil Carbon and Soil Health

by J. Loisel, A. Malhotra and C. Phillips 25 August 201729 September 2021

International Soil Carbon Network Workshop; Stanford, California, 27 February to 3 March 2017

A landscape near the Anglong glacier in Ritu County of western Tibet and the northern Himalayas.
Posted inScience Updates

Advancing a Multisphere Approach to Third Pole Research

by S. Shen and F. Zhang 11 May 201728 September 2021

The International Workshop on Land Surface Multi-spheres Processes of Tibetan Plateau; Xining, Qinghai Province, China, 8–10 August 2016

3-D view of Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah, an example of a human-made topographic fingerprint on the landscape.
Posted inOpinions

Mapping the Topographic Fingerprints of Humanity Across Earth

by P. Tarolli, G. Sofia and E. Ellis 16 March 201729 September 2021

If increasingly globalized societies are to make better land management decisions, the geosciences must globally evaluate how humans are reshaping Earth's surface

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Deep Ocean Layers Continue to Heat Up

by Kate Wheeling 1 March 2017

Researchers look at more than 3 decades of temperature trends in the deep ocean to understand the layers' energy budgets.

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