ecosystems

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Protecting Native Pollinators: Understanding Their Important Roles In Your Garden

Leena Oijala | Organic Authority | April 27, 2014

Native pollinators are extremely important members of any ecosystem, and should be cared for and stewarded especially by those of us who grow gardens. [...] These creatures work hard to provide us with the food we eat, support biological diversity and protect wildlife survival. Use our short guide on pollinators to learn how to create landscape  friendly to the native pollinators in your yard that will help sustain the health of our natural world. Read More »

Satellites: Make Earth Observations Open Access

Michael A. Wulder & Nicholas C. Coops | Nature | September 2, 2014

...A new era of open-access satellite data has arrived. In 2008, the US Geological Survey (USGS) released for free to the public its Landsat archive, which dates back to the 1970s and is the world's largest collection of Earth imagery...

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We've Been Looking At The Spread Of Global Pandemics All Wrong

Emily Badger | The Atlantic Cities | February 25, 2013

Five hundred years ago, the spread of disease was largely constrained by the main mode of transportation of the time: people traveling on foot. An outbreak in one town would slowly ripple outward with a pattern similar to what occurs when a rock drops onto a surface of still water...Today, disease migrates across populations and geography with a curiously different pattern. Read More »