This is the main reason I've spent the last 30 years making the case for the protection of rare birds, forests, oceans, wetlands and the rest of the amazing tapestry of life that sustains us.
The University of Arizona leases the facility and uses its ocean, mangrove wetlands, tropical rain forest and savanna to conduct climate experiments requiring a really big lab.
A team from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi began operations in Texas on Friday and will gather data on weather patterns and the condition of oceans and wetlands.
The gas originates from natural sources such as oceans and wetlands, as well as from human activity.
The first U.S. State of the Birds report came out in 2009 and established the precedent of using birds that are confined to specific habitats as indicators of the health of those habitats: oceans, coasts, wetlands, arctic, forests, grasslands, and aridlands.
Gearhart Elementary School is sandwiched between the ocean and a wetland, through which no roads exist and none can be built, because the ground there will liquefy in an earthquake.
Some, such as tectonic activities, operate at timescales of millions of years, whereas others, such as vegetation, soil, wetland, and ocean sources and sinks, operate at timescales of hundreds to thousands of years.
The news on that front was no better than when I'd decided to quit worrying about it — was considerably worse, in fact — but now those threatened forests and wetlands and oceans weren't just pretty scenes for me to enjoy.
It's time to recognize that our rivers, lakes, wetlands and oceans are good for our brains and bodies.
Combined with an unmitigated attack on our forests, our wetlands, our oceans, and our farmland in the pursuit of short-term gains, this unsustainable economic expansion has brought us to the edge of an abyss.
