Spruce, pine, fir, and additional varieties of trees dominate the chilly expanses of territory that stretch across North America, northern Europe, and Russia, forming a vast circumpolar belt around the globe.
When a tree is surrounded by many similar individuals, its mortality increases, which is probably caused by specialized pathogens or herbivores.
The jeans industry uses harmful chemicals to dye denim with indigo, but an alternative process can achieve the same thing with 92 percent less environmental impact.
House Atreides has fallen. Duke Leto is dead and his son, Paul, lives in hiding, gathering his strength and awaiting the right moment to leave the Fremen sietch and reclaim his birthright from the twisted Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.
Africa’s forested areas – an estimated 14 % of the global forest area – are continuing to decline at an increasing rate – mostly because of human activities to convert forest land for economic purposes.
Denialism highest in central and southern US, with Republican voters less likely to believe in climate science.
The Rancho Mission Viejo community in Orange County, Calif., dedicated around 75 percent of the site’s 23,000 acres as a nature reserve.
For more than 50 years, the National Hurricane Center has used the Saffir-Simpson Windscale to communicate the risk of property damage; it labels a hurricane on a scale from Category 1 (wind speeds between 74 – 95 mph) to Category 5 (wind speeds of 158 mph or greater).
A group from Nagoya University in Japan has found that larger, slower-moving typhoons are more likely to be resilient against global warming.
You can’t see it, but it’s in the air, threatening our health — it could even creep inside your home when all the doors and windows are shut.