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Spring’s Early Bloom: Farmers’ Adaptations And Keeping Crop Models In Sync

Energy Innovation

Changing phenology also impacts plants with cultural and medicinal significance, some of which have been used for centuries to nourish the body, heal wounds, or aid in ceremonies. This is the case for dozens of medicinal plants in Nepal , where 83 percent of the population relies primarily on herbal remedies. Ishtiaque found that U.S.

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Learning how to garden a forest

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This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. For at least 10,000 years before Europeans arrived, the Indigenous peoples of what is now California benefited from and shaped a landscape that teemed with an incredible array of flora and fauna. As authors Otis Parrish and Kent G.

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How does climate change threaten where you live? A region-by-region guide.

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This report, a collaboration between more than a dozen federal agencies and a wide array of academic researchers, takes stock of just how severe global warming has become and meticulously breaks down its effects by geography — 10 distinct regions in total, encompassing all of the country’s states and territories.