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Biodiversity Conservation in Britain: Science Replacing Tradition
British species. However, a diversity of conservationists may benefit biodiversity, and the intensity of the current debate about such controversial issues should benefit wildlife in general. Box 1: What is biodiversity?'Biodiversity' is used rather generally to include a number of more precise ...
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WELL - Resource Centre Network for Water, Sanitation and Environmental Health
Which of the user regimes to be followed depends on many variables including rainfall quantity, rainfall pattern (length of the rainy periods, the intensity of the rains), available surface area, available or affordable storage capacity, daily consumption rate, number of users, cost and affordability, presence of alternative water sources and the water management ...
www.lboro.ac.uk

Equity Watch - Global Environmental Government Unit - Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
The rise would be primarily due to thermal expansion and ... droughts and floods. In some regions such as part of Asia and Africa, the frequency and intensity of droughts has increased in recent decades. The culprit gas Stabilisation of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations ...
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Restoration Round-up (Do or Die)
The remainder will be kept as more conservation-friendly, low intensity arable farming. Hucking Court, Pound Farm and many other projects contribute to the Trust's goal ... to salt spray, with only one tiny tract of true relict woodland surviving: Berriedale on the island of Hoy, the most northerly natural woodland in the British Isles. Its only companions are ...
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The Dolphin Institute - Resource Guide
Series of very short duration, high-intensity, broad-band clicks containing frequencies as high as 120-kHz are projected in a narrow beam from ... dolphin or whale species. Recent satellite tagging of several humpback whales off the coast of the island of Kauai in the Hawaiian chain have shown that they seemed to deviate very little form a ...
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Nutrition
Clearly the biggest export of nutrients occurs when whole trees are harvested, while removing only the marketable log during low intensity harvesting will minimise nutrient removal. Research is underway to determine the relationship between nutrient content and tree diameter so that nutrient removals at harvest can be determined. Natural beech ...
www.fore.canterbury.ac.nz

News archive - 2002
Drew Harvell, and colleagues, have warned that global warming is leading to increased frequency and intensity of disease outbreaks. Many pathogens appear very sensitive to climate change. 18th June 2002 Alaskan ... in trouble The low lying South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu may become one of the first clear victims of global warming. Increased storm intensity and rising sea lvels threaten to ...
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Consequences (vol. 1, No. 1) - America's Water Supply: Status and Prospects for the Future
Such a change would also affect precipitation patterns, evapotranspiration rates, the timing and magnitude of runoff, and the frequency and intensity of storms as well as the demand for water. But the magnitude and even the nature of these impacts on the supply and demand for water in specific regions are largely ...
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Sable Island Seasons Fall Colours
Day length, temperature, and light intensity are among the environmental factors that influence the onset of leaf senescence and the spectacular ... trees to glow with fall colours. During September and October the vegetated terrain of Sable Island becomes a tapestry of pale yellow, tan, amber, buffy, orange and sienna, with the bright ...
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Earthquake Intensity Data
Search NGDC Search NOAA NOAA > NESDIS > NGDC > Natural Hazards comments | privacy policy Earthquake Intensity Database Search 1638-1985 The Earthquake Intensity Database is a collection of damage and felt reports for over ... in the file date from 1638 to 1985. Use this form to search the Earthquake Intensity Database. Please enter the information for one or more of the following search options and ...
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