3-10 (8 pages) Vegetation can modify the local geochemistry of natural soils, but the effects of plants on artificial sediments, including mine tailings, are not well understood To study the effects ...

Less than two weeks after a huge fire in Moss Landing at one of the world’s largest battery storage plants, scientists ...

Often conjuring images of dank, smelly, mosquito-infested wastelands, upon closer look, wetlands are actually biologically diverse and productive ecosystems. Home to a variety of plant life ...

In the wetland, nitrogen and phosphorus are removed from the surface water and transferred to the sediment, wetland plants or atmosphere. Some agricultural pesticides used in the Midwest can also be ...

"We wanted to understand the capacity of coastal wetland plants to store carbon and build soil elevation through root growth." "We set up a field-based experiment across a tidal landscape with ...

Its vegetation is unlike any other wetland in the state. Anne C. Cox is president of the Florida Native Plant Society, and she’s studied the flora of Jonathan Dickinson for years. “ ...

a protected network of wetlands, creeks, and wildlife habitat popular with birders and kayakers, turned up attention on the impact on humans who live in communities near the plant. Monterey County ...