Paul Hessburg, Research Landscape Ecologist, USDA-Forest Service talks at Restoring the West Conference 2017. Context: More than a century of forest and fire management of Inland Pacific landscapes has transformed their successional and disturbance dynamics. Regional connectivity of many terrestrial and aquatic habitats is fragmented, flows of some ecological and physical processes have been altered…
Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by warm water that reaches the ice when winds over the ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice…
Island major threatened of sea level rise, explains climate change.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in conjunction with the National Dialogue on Climate Action, hosted a public lecture on the challenging issue of the communication of climate change on 26 October 2017. Video by EPA Ireland https://www.youtube.com/user/EPAIrela… The speaker, Professor Chris Rapley CBE, is Professor of Climate Science at University College London and has specialised…
In this opening lecture of the Environmental Change Institute’s MSc in Environmental Change and Management, Professor Yadvinder Malhi discusses the emerging concept of the Anthropocene. In his lecture he explores the history of the concept, how it is used in disciplines ranging from the Earth system sciences, geology, ecology, social sciences and in the wider…