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The Wonders of Wood Buildings

June 03, 2016 William Shoutis, Bozeman Ranger District, U.S. Forest Service

Trees do plenty of work to sequester carbon on their own, but many forests are not as healthy as they should be due to fire suppression and climate change. This can leave trees vulnerable to large scale insect damage, fire or drought, and much of the carbon stored by forests is lost to the...

Forestry

Climate Hubs Help APHIS Adapt to Climate Change

May 31, 2016 Scott Moore, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

All this month we will be taking a look at what a changing climate means to Agriculture. The ten regional USDA Climate Hubs were established to synthesize and translate climate science and research into easily understood products and tools that land managers can use to make climate-informed...

Animals Plants USDA Results

Climate Data Tools for Informed Decisions

May 31, 2016 Rich Derksen, Office of the Chief Scientist

This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the USDA blog. Check back each week as we showcase stories and news from USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. Responding to Climate Variability is one of the goal areas of the REE Action Plan. The objective is to develop science-based...

Research and Science USDA Results

'Soil and Air' - Where Crops Meet the Environment

May 31, 2016 Ellen Buckley, Program Analyst, and Marlen Eve, National Program Leader, Agricultural Research Service

You probably know that climate change affects how we grow food, but you might not know that how food is grown also affects our climate. This interplay is at the heart of an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) project called “Soil and Air,” a concerted effort to feed the Earth’s 7.5 billion people...

Research and Science

Climate Change Intensifying Wildfire on National Forests

May 31, 2016 Dr. David L. Peterson, U.S. Forest Service

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that wildfires are more common during hot, dry summers. The area burned in the United States in 2015, over 10 million acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center, occurred during a record temperature year for the Earth, plus record low...

Forestry

California's Clean Energy Pioneers Come in Black and White

May 27, 2016 Sam Rikkers, Administrator, Rural Business-Cooperative Service

California has a pioneering spirit. Rural folks there have been on the frontier for generations. That frontier may have been gold mines and cattle grasslands in the past, but today that frontier is the very air, soil and water of California itself. Climate change is transforming California like it’s...

Energy Rural

Nutritional Security Through Sustainable Agriculture

May 27, 2016 Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy, Director, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Nutritional security is defined as “a situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.” Achieving nutritional security in the...

Food and Nutrition

Northern Plains Regional Climate Hub Extension and Outreach Team Develop Regional Efforts

May 27, 2016 Windy K. Kelley, University of Wyoming Extension and Justin D. Derner, ARS

All this month we will be taking a look at what a changing climate means to Agriculture. The ten regional USDA Climate Hubs were established to synthesize and translate climate science and research into easily understood products and tools that land managers can use to make climate-informed...

USDA Results

California Farmers Count Every Drop with Efficient Irrigation Technologies

May 26, 2016 Andrew McElrone, CA Sub Hub Acting Director / Research Plant Physiologist, Crops Pathology and Genetics Research Unit, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Davis, CA

All this month we will be taking a look at what a changing climate means to Agriculture. The ten regional USDA Climate Hubs were established to synthesize and translate climate science and research into easily understood products and tools that land managers can use to make climate-informed...

USDA Results

Changes in a Key Source of Honey Bee Nutrition

May 25, 2016 Dennis O'Brien, Public Affairs Specialist, Agricultural Research Service

All this month we will be taking a look at what a changing climate means to Agriculture. The ten regional USDA Climate Hubs were established to synthesize and translate climate science and research into easily understood products and tools that land managers can use to make climate-informed...

Animals Plants Research and Science USDA Results
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