Ramsar wetlands are designated sites of importance across the globe. The Ramsar Convention was established in 1971 by UNESCO to help establish these areas that provide important ecosystem services. The convention includes measures to aid in protecting the sites, wetlands aid in freshwater filtration, provide flood control, habitats for animals. Groundwater recharge and climate change mitigation.
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It’s well known that as global temperatures increase, sea levels will rise, and will significantly impact low lying coastal cities. More than 1 billion of the world’s population lives in these coastal cities. Places like Miami, Mumbai, New York, and Shanghai, are just a few of the major cities that are likely to see their landscapes change in the next 100 years by sea level rise.
Tons of research is done every day by all kinds of people, grad students, professors, citizen scientists, etc. Despite all this much of the research done whithers away in academic journals never making to the eyes of the right people. Why is this? Well I can’t give you a definite reason but I can help explain the difference between knowledge and usable knowledge. Interested? See more after the jump!
Arctic sea ice is leaving us. We didn’t taken good enough care of it when we had it and it may be too late to convince it to stay. Over the coming decades the specific effects of decreasing sea ice cover will become more apparent. One effect that has not gotten much attention since its discovery in 2011, is the growing phytoplankton blooms under the thinning ice sheets. Phytoplankton require sunlight to grow, and the increased thinning of sea-ice allows for more light transmission through the ice, where the blooms of plankton can grow quickly and more frequently than before. This is a drastic change from the ‘normal’ conditions where sea ice was thicker and reflected the solar rays, having a much a higher albedo than today.
Happy International Water Day! The theme this year is wastewater, something most of us don't really think about. We collaborated on a post for the International Water Association's blog. It talks about novel methods of stakeholder development and capacity with a lens on wastewater. Be sure to check out the other posts too!
http://www.iwa-network.org/gaming-the-way-to-sustainable-water-management/ Its becoming harder and harder to be non-partisan these days and to remain neutral when so much crazy stuff is going on. Despite your political preference some crazy stuff is going on in the world and some of that is having a real negative effect on the environment and the planet as a whole. Let’s dive on in then!
A really interesting video with a great example of the amazing research and development going on in Canada. Read more about it here: http://www.barleyprize.com/#/venture/bfba2b9a-c4b2-3844-3571-ef009ff3996d Read more about phosphates here: https://water.usgs.gov/edu/phosphorus.html Hey guys! Today I’m going to introduce to you guys the topic of adaptive management. I first introduced to this concept in my undergraduate degree and it always resonated with me. Adaptive management is about trying things out, making mistakes and getting messy as Miss Frizzle would say (please somebody get this reference!). Anyways time to dive on in! More after the jump.
It may be hard to believe right now, as we have been bundling up every day for the past three months, and will continue to for at least another two, but Earth’s 2016 surface temperatures were the warmest on record since modern record keeping began.
This warming is a continued trend as 2016 is the third year in a row that has been called the warmest on record. So what will 2017 bring? If it continues in line with the warming trend, here’s what we can expect: I think the world has collectively decided 2016 was a tough year, but I’d like this post to focus on some of the things we have going for us. I think it’s important to be reminded that we are making progress is some aspects of society.
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