Current research includes studies of the food web structure and biogeochemistry of Arctic streams and rivers, nitrogen cycling
in headwater streams and estuaries, and the impacts of climate change on the freshwater cycle of the Arctic.
Not exact matches
Management of non-point source pollution is of great importance
in the context of coffee agriculture, as this land use often coincides with
headwater streams that influence water quality at the basin scale.
It sits
in the Everglades
headwaters, a zone of
streams, lakes, and ranch lands stretching between Orlando and Lake Okeechobee
in central Florida.
«The sediment can have a wide range of effects on a lot of watersheds, many of which are
headwater streams and important for water supply
in the West.»
Headwater streams, which provide the coldest available habitat
in many areas, are often assumed to be the ultimate refuges for coldwater species, but many of these species are also acid - sensitive — and many
headwaters of the southern Appalachian region are already too acid to support them.
Yet mine - related contaminants persist
in streams well below valley fills, forests are destroyed,
headwater streams are lost, and biodiversity is reduced; all of these demonstrate that MTM / VF causes significant environmental damage despite regulatory requirements to minimize impacts.
Rubble and overburden from the site will be pushed
in to nearby valleys, termed «valley fills,» where they will mix with
headwater streams that go out across the eastern United States.
The Clean Water Protection Act is a bill
in the US House of Representatives which will sharply reduce mountaintop removal coal mining by protecting our
headwater streams, where our rivers, like the Mississippi and the Ohio, are born.
In the past few decades, more than 2,000 miles of
streams and
headwaters that provide drinking water for millions of Americans have been permanently buried and destroyed by mountaintop removal mining.
Based on that up - to - date scientific understanding of the permanent harm that would result from the destruction and burial of six miles of vital
headwater streams, the downstream contamination and resulting ecological damage, and the leveling of 2,000 acres of natural mountaintop, EPA issued a final veto determination
in January 2011.