Tag Archives: Systems ecology

California Wildfires Result in 12000 Evacuations

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Over 134,000 acres are lost due to wildfires. The State of California has been stuck in this mess. The fires have engulfed wide areas of the state and the destruction is still taking place. The...

Researchers Look at Owl Vomit to Determine Impact of Humans on Ecosystem

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Scientists analyze owl vomit to measure impact of humans on the ecosystem over time. This sound unusual and gross, but actually makes a lot of sense. In Owl pellets are the rest of mice that owls eat...

Researchers Discover 7 New Tiny Frogs

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A team of researchers has uncovered seven new species of a highly miniaturized, brightly colored frog genus known as Brachycephalus. The researchers spent nearly 5 years of exploration in mountainous...

Google Powers Online Resource Tracking Global Deforestation

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Last fall, I wrote about efforts by Google and Microsoft to help put some analytics muscle behind tracking various natural resources. Now, Google has teamed up with the World Resources Institute (WRI...