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Researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Darrin Freshwater Institute in Bolton Landing have been studying the impact of water temperate and lake ice for several years, said Sandra Nierzicki - Bauer, executive director.

Liechti says researchers have previously asserted but never proved that newborn common swifts spend three years aloft before landing for breeding.

Co-author Hayley Hung, a scientist with Environment Canada's Air Quality Division who studies toxic organic pollutants in the Arctic, said that in recent years, researchers had posited that warmer conditions would liberate POPs stored in land, ice and ocean reservoirs back into the atmosphere.

«Every time forest or shrub land is cleared for farming, the carbon that was tied up in the biomass is released and rapidly makes its way into the atmosphere,» said Burney, who is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford.

«It is now time to evaluate how to make the most of satellite and in situ data to help us understand ocean acidification, and to establish where remotely sensed data can make the best contribution,» Peter Land, lead author of the new study and researcher at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, said in a press release accompanying the new study.

Researchers say that while PAs can counter agricultural expansion — and many have increasingly called for PAs to expand across the planet amid dire evidence of rapid species decline — the limits on land that can be set aside for PAs means that biodiversity conservation success depends on protecting native vegetation on private lands.

ONE WAVE A single group of people migrated from Siberia and Northeast Asia into the Americas via a land bridge about 23,000 years ago, giving rise to all Native Americans, one group of researchers says.

«There's limited dollars and opportunities for conserving land and water, so we want to make sure we're getting the most bang for our buck,» said Strecker, who co-led the study with a researcher from Bryn Mawr College.

That means researchers will reconsider the question of where to land the rover in about a year, says MSL project scientist John Grotzinger of Caltech.

Lead researcher Harriet Condie, from UEA's school of Environmental Sciences, said: «We took into account data such as catch and discard figures from fishing trawlers, fish prices and landing costs, to calculate whether banning the practice of discarding will offer enough of an economic incentive to fish sustainably.

Manatees are one of the animals that, after adapting to land, harkened back to the sea, say researchers.

Karl Garme, a researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology's Department of Aeronautical and Vehicle Engineering, says the Waterway 365 project shows that water buses could reduce the load on land - based transit without doing harm to the environment.

Jennifer Franco, a researcher at the Transnational Institute, an international think tank in the Netherlands that advocates for social justice, said land grabbing has been going on for a long time and some of the increase is due to more awareness and reporting of it.

Pollsters conducted land - line and cell phone interviews that captured a representative 90 percent of the U.S. population, the researchers said.

What the paper doesn't do is demonstrate that the organisms found inside the kelp could establish themselves in New Zealand, says Ellen Censky, a biologist at the Milwaukee Public Museum in Wisconsin and one of the researchers who reported the iguana landing.

The results show the importance of taking land subsidence into account when calculating the risk from coastal flooding, the researchers say.

Over the past 15 years, researchers have uncovered a series of fossils intermediate between whales and land animals, but were still missing a link to landlubbing beasts, which Thewissen says Indohyus now provides.

Fishing is relatively stationary compared to the hunting of land mammals, which provides clear indications that settlements appeared in Scandinavia much earlier than researchers previously believed,» says Adam Boethius.

«Traditionally, they live on houseboats and come to land only occasionally,» says Melissa Ilardo, a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Utah and first author on the study.

James Cook University researchers in Queensland say if graziers leave trees in place on their land all types of reptiles will benefit.

«There is a vast storehouse of natural history found on BLM - managed land, and it's exciting to work with researchers like Professor Retallack in capturing 3D data on fragile paleontological resources,» she said.

ANOTHER VIEW Bruce Dale, a biofuels researcher at MichiganState University, says there is a huge amount of uncertainty whenbasing predictions on an inherently complex economic model.Additionally, he asserts that the United States should not beresponsible for «anything but its own environmental profile» and thatto take into account world land changes is unreasonable.

Researchers at Harvard University, the University of Utah and the National Center for Atmospheric Research say they were able to accurately measure carbon dioxide emitted in Salt Lake City using ground stations, weather and land - use data, and a computer model.

If this material can be fabricated in bulk — and the researchers say there's no reason it can't be — simpler, less - sensitive underwater microphones can be used for land - sea communication for deep - ocean science or shipwreck exploration, for instance.

Researchers say these turtles» ability to smell land, shown for the first time in this study, could help the reptiles find the shore, draw them to food along the shoreline, or both.

Consumption of environmental services, such as water (crop irrigation alone counts for 70 % of the world's freshwater withdrawals), should be taxed, say the researchers, and any subsidies should be paid on the proviso that they are as much for protecting the land as for farming it.

By providing new data on how CO2 cycles through land and ocean plants, HIPPO will allow researchers to improve the accuracy of their climate models and reduce that uncertainty, Stephens said.

«The reason for the layering is that global warming in parts of Antarctica is causing land - based ice to melt, adding massive amounts of freshwater to the ocean surface,» said ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science researcher Prof Matthew England an author of the paper.

«If there is a perception that more land is available, this can drive policies that lead to greater investments in these areas and may push more people off their land,» said IIASA researcher Linda See, who also worked on the study.

The two largest factors influencing wildfire emissions included land use change, such as the conversion of forests to cropland, and local population increases, the researchers say.

«This deposit is probably more accessible than most water ice on Mars, because it is at a relatively low latitude and it lies in a flat, smooth area where landing a spacecraft would be easier than at some of the other areas with buried ice,» researcher Jack Holt of the University of Texas said in a statement.

The latest salvo in Macro-Nutrient Land is the Calorie Restriction Diet, inspired by animal experiments in which mice, guppies, water fleas, yeast, spiders, Labrador retrievers, a microscopic water invertebrate called the rotifer, and rhesus monkeys are said to live longer on diets that restrict caloric intake.13 Researchers are encouraged by the longevity of a single monkey who has reached 38 years on a diet in which the portion of monkey chow — dried compressed pellets of wheat, corn, soybean, alfalfa, fish and brewer's yeast — has been cut by 30 percent compared to controls.

American membership in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, they say, will lead to richer collaborations between education researchers in the United States and other countries, more straightforward participation of the United States in UNESCO's agenda, and more opportunities for American educators to land jobs with the international organization.

That is because koalas have a special sound - producing organ not previously seen in any land - dwelling mammal, researchers say.

They say their findings, which focused on the effect titling had on forest clearing and disturbance in the Peruvian Amazon between 2002 and 2005, suggest that the increasing trend towards decentralized forest governance via granting indigenous groups and other local communities formal legal title to their lands could play a key role in global efforts to slow both tropical forest destruction, which the researchers note is responsible for about the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as the transportation sector, and climate change.»

Sokona called for «leapfrogging» directly to cleaner technologies and sustainable land - use solutions, but said these should be home - grown, built by an African pool of researchers and industry that needed to be nurtured.

The researchers say capturing more carbon in land and forests is no substitute for eliminating the world's dependence on fossil fuels, which it is consuming so prodigally that the consequent rise in greenhouse gas levels is driving global warming.

The Woods Hole researchers say aggressive action to reduce emissions from the land sector can buy more time for a rapid transition to a decarbonised economy.

Most deforestation is done to provide cleared land for agriculture, but the cutting down of trees and the planting of crops releases large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which adds to global warming, the researchers said.

The researchers say that the conversion of land to grow corn for biofuels is a key element in the decline.

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The researchers say in nations with higher well - being farmers are less likely to farm on marginal land and more efficient farming has, in many cases, reduced the need to clear more farm land.

That compares with estimates of 2.3 to 2.8 days for land - based creatures, the researchers said.

Growing crops for food rather than energy may be the most efficient way for U.S. Midwest farm land to contribute to combating climate change, say PNNL researchers.

«Its purpose is to recognize that we, as settlers and as people who are not part of First Nations or Indigenous groups, are here on their land,» said Alison Norman, a research adviser in the Ontario Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation and a researcher at Trent University.

Julian Sendin, a Senior Researcher at Ndifuna Ukwazi — an activist organisation and law centre working to advance urban land justice — says: «Inclusionary zoning is a basic intervention used by top cities around the world to ensure that private developers build a fair amount of truly affordable housing in exchange for additional development rights.»

The government is also the land developer of the project, says Youn - Young Park, senior researcher and project manager of the Canadian Centre on Disability Studies in Winnipeg, which leads the national initiative.