White-tailed deer density in Pennsylvania’s Valley Forge National Historical Park has increased an estimated 600% in the past two and a half decades, grazing on more than their share of a variety of undergrowth and leaving the forest without the necessary diversity of seedlings and saplings that keeps it healthy. What to do about the [...]
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4 May
Two New Studies Predict a Bigger, Warmer Future (probably not a good thing!)
Assuming that the world is able to make it through next year’s looming apocalypse, new studies by both the United Nations and the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program indicate more long-term socio-environmental problems facing humankind over the next century. First, the United Nations released a report early this week indicating that, contrary to the popular [...]
