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Is there such a thing as wilderness anymore?
Posted by Mother Nature Network: Jaymi Heimbuch on December 27th, 2015
Mother Nature Network: Recently I sat down with a book that within a chapter or two had me reanalyzing that every opinion I hold about what nature is, what wilderness is and what we can, can't, should and shouldn't do to our planet. This book is "Satellites in the High Country: Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man" by Jason Mark.
To most conservationists, there's nothing more sacred than wilderness and no act more honorable than to preserve and protect it. But what exactly is wilderness? Is there a way to use it...
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Salamanders Are Shrinking, Thanks To Climate Change
Posted by Mother Nature Network: Jaymi Heimbuch on March 26th, 2014
Mother Nature Network: Some of the best habitats in North America for salamanders are showing strain from climate change, becoming warmer and drier as global temperatures and weather patterns shift. This means the salamanders living there, which rely on cool, moist forests, are also experiencing changes. Forced to burn more energy to deal with the changing clime, the salamanders are getting smaller in average size.
Research from the University of Maryland, published yesterday in the journal Global Change Biology, shows...