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Geotimes May 2007 Kathryn Hansen |
Yellowstone Fires Leave Microbes Nitrogen-Hungry Researchers hot on the trail of severe fires in Yellow-stone National Park have found that the nitrogen in forest soils can be greatly affected by such fires, which occur within the region once every few hundred years, and kill most of a forest's trees. |
Geotimes August 2003 Greg Peterson |
Hubbard Brook: Making Watershed Links The wollastonite addition at Hubbard Brook is the latest chapter in a rich history of large scale manipulations aimed at understanding how human disturbances impact forests. |
Science News May 20, 2006 |
Timeline: From the May 16, 1936, Issue Longest-Lived of All Insects; Not That of Bible Plague... New Zinc Coatings for Wire Are Perfected... Physicians Believe Cause of Schizophrenia is Found... |
Smithsonian August 2006 Michael Tennesen |
Uphill Battle As the climate warms in the cloud forests of the Andes, plants and animals must climb to higher, cooler elevations or die. |
Science News June 21, 2003 Ivars Peterson |
Prime-Time Cicadas The fact that periodical cicadas emerge after a prime number of years could be just a coincidence. Or it might reflect some sort of evolutionary pressure that leads to prime-number cycles. |
Popular Mechanics January 26, 2009 Andrew Moseman |
Scientists Use Massive Crane to Study Troubled Forests From Above In a study released in last week's Science researchers surveying forests of the American West found that trees are dying at an ever-increasing rate. |
IDB America June 2005 Roger Hamilton |
Brazil's Other Forest Still brimming with biological diversity, the Atlantic Forest needs allies. |
Scientific American August 2008 Keren Blankfeld Schultz |
Wildfires May Improve Forests' Ability to Sequester Carbon When saving trees means less carbon storage. |
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton |
Could Environmentalists Learn to Love This Road? An asphalt strip through Brazil's Amazon rainforest is intended to anchor an economy based on a newer, gentler way to use the rain forest. |
IDB America July 2005 Roger Hamilton |
Cutting a forest to save it A pioneering experiment in community forestry management in Peten, Guatemala. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Soil Testing If you've heard it once, you've heard it a hundred times: every garden should have its soil tested. |
National Gardening |
Tools for Preparing the Garden Before a single plant even touches the ground in your garden, it would be wise to spend time preparing the soil. You'll have fewer weeds and diseases and better plant growth, flowering, and fruiting later. |
National Gardening |
Soil Fertility 101 Just as a good foundation is necessary to support a building, good soil is necessary to build a successful garden. All soil is not alike. It differs in texture, fertility, and balance. |
Outside June 2003 Douglas Gantenbein |
We're Toast Last summer, U.S. wildfires cost $1.6 billion to stop and claimed the lives of 23 firefighters. The expense and sacrifice did nothing to solve the problems of overgrown forests, misguided policies, and misspent resources. We need to get serious about rethinking the role of flame in the woods. |
Financial Advisor September 2011 Ellie Winninghoff |
Go Hug A Forest Impact investors can foster change while earning handsome returns in one of the only asset classes where there's real growth. |