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Woods Hole Research Center plans controlled burn in Amazon rainforest

...in the Amazon landscape. Every year, low intensity fires burn thousands of square miles of Amazon forest. To study the effects of these fires on the forest, and the forests' ability to recover from repeated burning, Woods Hole Research Center...

Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management

...l Science, concludes that by 2030, smoke from wood fires used for cooking will cause about 10 million prema... 2050, according to the report, smoke from cooking fires will release about 7 billion tons of carbon in the form of greenhouse gases to the environment. That...

No relief for Pacific Northwest drought

...part of the country will face forest and rangeland fires this year that could be unusually severe and gener...ose events are fairly common and, because of that, fires will often occur if vegetation, moisture and climatic conditions are right, which it appears they wi...

Key Trigger Of Opioid Withdrawal Symptoms Found

...tters are the molecular ammunition that one neuron fires at its neighbor to trigger a nerve impulse in the neighbor. Propagation of such nerve impulses through the networks of neurons in the brain is the basis of all neural activity. Transporter molecules are the proteins that retrieve neurotransmitter mol...

South America's vast pantanal wetland may become next everglades, UNU experts warn

...ry and more easily burns, leading to more frequent fires which destroy flood-adapted trees, in which aquatic birds nest, while killing swamp deer and other animals. (The Pantanal's other fauna includes giant anteaters, armadillos, capybara, the Brazilian tapir and jaguar, and endangered species like the ho...

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