June 11, 2012

Although it’s long been suspected that human activity has greatly contributed to environmental stress, it’s only recently that science has begun to show just how great a role that activity is playing.

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June 7, 2012

Twenty years after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, 17 prominent ecologists, including a CHANS-Net member, are calling for renewed international efforts to curb the loss of biological diversity, which is compromising nature's ability to provide goods and services essential for human well-being.

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June 4, 2012

Early human activity has left a greater footprint on today's ecosystem than previously thought, says a CHANS-Net scientist working with colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh and in the multidisciplinary Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network, created by the National Science Foundation to investigate ecological processes over long temporal and broad spatial scales. Highlighted in the June issue of BioScience, the study shows how historic human actions caused changes in nature that continue to reverberate throughout present-day ecosystems.

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May 29, 2012

Two journals have issued calls for papers for upcoming special issues focusing on wetlands, sustainability and risk analysis.

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May 25, 2012

CHANS-Net member Matteo Convertino, of the University of Florida and the Risk and Decision Science Team of the Engineering R&D Center of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is looking for potential collaborators for a symposium he has proposed at the Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Dec. 9-12 in San Francisco.

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May 1, 2012

Using nature’s beauty as a tourist draw can boost conservation in China’s valued panda preserves, but it isn’t an automatic ticket out of poverty for the human habitants, a unique long-term study shows.

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April 27, 2012

Continued expansion of industrial-scale oil palm plantations on the island of Borneo will become a leading cause of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 unless strong forest and peatland protections are enacted and enforced, according to a National Academy of Sciences study co-authored by a CHANS-Net member.

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April 24, 2012

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences National Research Council Committee on Needs and Research Requirements for Land-Change Modeling is assessing the future research requirements for spatially-explicit land-change models and is requesting input from CHANS-Net land modelers.

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April 12, 2012

A CHANS-Net researcher and colleagues have definitively linked an increase in ocean acidification to the collapse of oyster seed production at a commercial oyster hatchery in Oregon, where larval growth had declined to a level considered by the owners to be "non-economically viable."

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April 11, 2012

The dates for the American Geophysical Union’s 2012 Fall Meeting have been changed to Monday, Dec. 3-Friday, Dec. 7, with pre-meeting events and workshops scheduled for Sunday, Dec 2.

Previously published deadlines will not change. The deadline for session proposals remains April 20; abstract and town hall submissions will open on June 12 and will close on Aug. 8; registration and housing open on July 12.

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