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Urban apartments can have nature, too
2016-02-05 22:36:54| PortlandOnline
A cement courtyard becomes a hard-working rain garden and haven for birds
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Severe drought no longer caused just by nature
2016-02-02 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Scientists at the University of Birmingham are calling on drought researchers and managers around the world to consider both human activity and natural phenomena in their battle to preserve increasingly scarce global water supplies. The experts say that severe droughts experienced recently in countries such as China, Brazil and the United States can no longer be seen as purely natural hazards. Changes to the way people use the water and the landscape contribute to extreme wate…
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GEOPAVE Porous Pavements Offer Stormwater Contributions at Eco-Friendly Nature Preserve
2016-01-27 12:47:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Presto Geosystems' GEOPAVE porous pavements were utilised along with other environmental and sustainable products in a popular Wisconsin nature preserve, The Ridges Sanctuary, in their pursuit for a LEED Platinum rating.
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Seeing Nature
2016-01-07 01:46:51| PortlandOnline
The Portland Art Museum has a beautiful exhibit that explores the evolution of landscape.
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Turns out ancient humans were bad for nature, too!
2015-12-19 02:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Humans got a new nickname this week: The Agents of Disturbance. And boy, do we deserve it. In a new study published in the journal Nature, researchers report that humans have been agents of disturbance on this planet roughly since the dawn of civilization. Starting around 6,000 years ago, we began to fundamentally change the way that plants and other animals coexist something that even mass extinctions and severe climate change havent been able to do on their own. Its not clear exactly how...
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