The presence of soluble salts, such as sodium chloride, in agricultural soils can dramatically reduce crop yield. In irrigated agriculture, especially in arid and semi-arid…
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Hurricane effects are increasing in recent times; every day we hear in the news reports of a new high-impact meteorological phenomenon in different parts of…
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Dams have expanded rapidly in the world. People focus on issues ranging from irrigation, hydroelectric power, water resource allocation, and ecological restoration and believe it…
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Think about what you drank today. Odds are, you drank water at some point. For most of us, particularly in more developed countries, water might…
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Why are forests relevant? Forest ecosystems contain large amounts of different groups of organisms and play a key role in biodiversity conservation across the world’s…
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The natural environment delivers many goods and services that human beings cannot manage without. Health, energy, and safety are just a few of the basic…
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Through our sheer abundance, human activity is a pervasive influence on all ecosystems. Any influence can be appraised through cost-benefit analysis, which, I would suggest,…
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Horseshoe crabs, or limulids, are some of the strangest of shoreline creatures. There are only four species today, three of them living in shallow waters…
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Forests have a complicated relationship with carbon and climate. They sequester huge quantities of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, estimated at 10-20 percent of U.S. emissions,…
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Billions of larval blue crabs, or zoeae, are spawned each year into the many estuaries and bays of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the…
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Nutrient export from the Corn Belt of the United States is impacting rivers at local and regional scales and is contributing to the development of…
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