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Restoring coastal wetlands? check the soil
Rising sea levels and coastal development are threatening coastal freshwater wetlands with saltwater intrusion. While most ecosystem restoration projects have focused on surface water and groundwater, new research finds that conditions in the vadose zone, the unsaturated soil below the surface but above the water table, are of particular importance to seedling survival in coastal floodplain ecosystems.
Scientists at the University of Florida, the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD), and the Florida Park Service investigated key measurements of the vadose zone, soil moisture, ... |
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HSBC predicts low carbon energy market to triple
The world`s low-carbon energy market is likely to treble by 2020, HSBC analysts forecast on Monday, saying that rising concerns about resource scarcity would support broad consensus on the threat of climate change.
The electric vehicle market would benefit most, growing more than 20 times by 2020 to reach US$473 billion, said HSBC`s "Sizing the climate economy" report.
Climate policy has faced headwinds including faltering U.N. climate talks to agree a post-2012 successor to the Kyoto Protocol and repeated Senate setbacks to a U.S. climate bill.
But mounting pressure on land, ... |
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