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Dartmoor beauty spot is battleground for Britains threatened woodlands
2016-07-03 20:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It is an idyllic spot. Sylvan slopes dip down to a babbling river fringed by alder and willow that winds through organic pasture where hens peck, sheep graze and bees hum. The ethos is sound to restore the woods to their ancient glory, to create a small, sustainable business producing timber and firewood, and to teach vanishing forestry skills to anyone keen to learn. They also try to have fun here at the Hillyfield woodland farm, near the village of Harbourneford in Devon, holding a Woodland...
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Woodlands in Europe: More tree species, more benefits
2016-03-15 11:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Forest homogenisation results in a lower ecosystem performance. This summarises the findings of an international team of scientists from 29 institutions, including researchers from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Leipzig University and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv). The scientists were able to demonstrate that species-rich forest stands give rise to a higher number and more varied range of services than those with fewer species. 20…
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Exclusive: Grocery delivery service inks partnership with HEB, expands service to Katy, The Woodlands
2015-09-01 15:58:16| Grocery - Topix.net
San Francisco-based grocery delivery service, Instacart , announced Sept. 1 it signed an official partnership with San Antonio-based H-E-B Grocery Co.
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Population changes, priorities cause woodlands to increase
2015-08-05 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] COLLEGE STATION - Woody plant encroachment is one of the biggest challenges facing rangelands worldwide, but it consistently has been under-measured and poorly understood, said a Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientist in College Station. Dr. Matthew Berg, an AgriLife Research postdoctoral research associate in the Texas A&M department of ecosystem and science management, is trying to change both the understanding and measurement with his latest study, which was captured…
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More from the 2015 SPE Digital Energy at The Woodlands
2015-06-25 20:00:00| Oil IT Journal - www.oilit.com
Cisco - 'fog computing' at the edge. Shell/OptaSense on the world's first permanent in-well fiber acoustic sensing. Chevron on governance of the upstream workflow transformation.