A paper, titled "How local governments avoid floodplain development through consistent implementation of routine municipal ordinances, plans, and programs," published in Oxford Open Climate Change ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the valley that the Mississippi River carves through the heart of America, one vital habitat is facing a multitude of threats.

Salt intrusion is a growing concern worldwide. Eleonora Saccon, who completed a master's degree in climate change ecology in her native Italy, studied the effects of salty surface water at the NIOZ ...

The worldwide demand for açaí has helped turn a forest fruit into a global product, but intensified production may be ...

DE SOTO - At the junction of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa, there's a place called Reno Bottoms, where the Mississippi River spreads out from its main channel into thousands of acres of tranquil ...

That aphorism, which has been quoted by floodplain managers for nearly a century, comes from White’s 1942 doctoral thesis, making this perhaps one of most enduring phrases to ever emerge from a ...

Land-cover change often shifts the distribution of biomass in animal communities. However, the effects of land-cover changes on functional diversity remain poorly understood for many organisms and ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Just four months ago, rivers reached dangerous levels across the Midwest and here in Omaha as people suffered damage to both their homes and land. Even though the river levels ...

The same two officials took part in the 2024 opening of Dos Rios Ranch State Park. It lies where the Tuolumne River meets the ...