Record low water levels on the Mississippi and other major rivers, as seen in 2022, could become more common, threatening transportation of many key goods and raising prices.
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In Canada, watersheds are vast and often inaccessible, making it difficult to monitor the health of these ecosystems. A new tool helps communities collect data to assess the state of Canada’s rivers.
Restoring western forests – thinning out small trees and dead wood – is an important strategy for reducing the risk of massive wildfires. But these projects aren’t fast, easy or cheap.
Wildfires reduce the reliability of city water supplies in North America. But active forest management provides a key to the solution.
The Toolkit for Ecosystem Service Site-based Assessment (TESSA) allows NGOs to quantify the economic advantages of maintaining ecosystems, helping preserve biodiversity by putting a value on it.
The prices households pay for drinking water and wastewater services have been rising faster than the rate of inflation.
To lessen the impacts of flash flooding in dry regions like Jordan, we need to educate local authorities on how best to manage their water.
Much of the country depends on water stored and filtered in forests. Fire-scarred watersheds highlight our need for a national wildfire strategy.
A new project takes a different look at the role of oceans.
With a future of droughts looming for the US West, Utah’s Wasatch watershed offers a good model that combines conservation with nature-based recreation.
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Lecturer in Conservation Science, University of Southampton
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Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Geography and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College., University of Cambridge
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Reader / Associate Professor in Environmental Geoscience, Sheffield Hallam University
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Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand
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Gates Cambridge Scholar, PhD, Affiliated Research Scholar at the University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute, University of Cambridge
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Distinguished Professor of Engineering, University of California, Merced
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Fellow, Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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Research Manager, University of Guelph
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Assistant Professor Sociology and Social Studies, University of Regina
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Assistant Research Professor, Desert Research Institute
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Assistant Professor, Oregon State University
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University of California, Merced
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Professor of Engineering, University of California, Merced
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Associate professor, Department of integrative biology, University of Guelph
