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New research into the particulars of butterfly DNA has unmasked as many as nine new butterfly species previously lumped together with known butterfly species. The interloping butterflies, all found in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, have long remained incognito in the collection of El Colegio de la Frontera Sur-Chetumal (ECOSUR), a research center in Mexico. They are [...]
It is good news that some farmers recently have been able to buy back their acreage from developers as land prices have fallen and crop prices have risen. But this news is not nearly good enough. According to the American Farmland Trust, a public interest organization that monitors such things, our country is still losing [...]
Cities on the Mississippi River Trail are shifting into bike trails promotion gear. Minnesota cities along the Mississippi River Trail believe they could gain a lot of bicycle tourism dollars with some advertising moxie, and state officials have developed a marketing plan to help them start promoting their trail stops. An online trail-marketing toolbox, recently [...]
A group of climate science experts have recommended measures to manage billions of dollars earmarked to help poor countries fight climate change, and avoid problems common among aid programs. Pledges of aid for climate change are as significant as the Marshall Plan to fix Europe’s economy after World War II, said Simon Donner in a [...]
Climate change is likely to lead to increased average rainfall in the world’s major river basins but weather patterns will be fickle and the timing of wet seasons may change, threatening farming and foodstocks, experts said on Monday. Furthermore, some river systems in Africa – southern Africa’s Limpopo, north Africa’s Nile and West Africa’s Volta [...]
One of the most striking new voices on climate change that’s emerged since the UN summit in Copenhagen two years ago is the Climate Vulnerable Forum. The grouping includes small island states vulnerable to extreme weather events and sea level rise, those with immense spans of low-lying coastline such as Vietnam and Bangladesh, and dry [...]
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