There’s a lot riding on Ice Out – the day when New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee is sufficiently free of ice for the popular MS Mount Washington sightseeing vessel to reach all five of its ports. When that time comes, Ice Out celebrations can begin and spring is just around the corner.
But to those who study lake ecosystems, Ice Out means more than the start of boating season. In the Northeast’s lake ecosystems, ice is a determinant of everything from water temperature to aquatic food chains to water quality. And according to long-term climate data, ice-out has been moving earlier and earlier – a sign, scientists say, of warming winters in the Northeast as a whole.
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Wildlife biodiversity a boon to human health, seafood nutrition
April 6, 2021
WASHINGTON – Biodiversity provides human health benefits on the land and in the water, according to a pair of newly published studies.
Previous studies have highlighted many of the ways biodiversity offers indirect benefits to human health by encouraging pollination, for example. But new research suggests biodiversity also provides direct health benefits by keeping humans from getting sick, United Press International (UPI) reported.
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According to one new study, published Monday in the journal PNAS, biodiversity helps minimise the risk of zoonotic disease outbreaks.
There’s a persistent myth that wild areas with high levels of biodiversity are hotspots for disease, UPI quoting lead study author Felicia Keesing said in a press release.
Carbon offsets have become an increasingly common way for businesses to claim large reductions in their emissions. In 2020, companies purchased more than 93 million carbon credits, equivalent to the pollution from 20 million cars in a year.
SAN FRANCISCO (April 5): Following concerns that it is facilitating the sale of meaningless carbon credits to corporate clients, the Nature Conservancy says it’s conducting an internal review of its portfolio of carbon-offset projects. The nonprofit owns or has helped develop more than 20 such projects on forested lands mostly in the US, which generate credits that are purchased by such companies as JPMorgan Chase & Co, BlackRock Inc and Walt Disney Co, which use them to claim large reductions in their own publicly reported emissions.
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At least two state elected officials in Utah have made comments or done things in recent months that have prompted residents to look for a way to remove them from office.
Republican Attorney General Sean Reyes questioned the 2020 presidential election results in neighboring Nevada and involved Utah in a lawsuit to overturn ballot counts in four swing states that former President Donald Trump lost.
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In January, an online petition called for the removal of newly elected State School Board member Natalie Cline over her social media posts that the petition claimed called for the education community to support “xenophobia, racism, homophobia and cultural regression.”
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