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Why clearing the brush around Los Angeles won't reduce wildfire danger
But wildfire experts say cutting down Southern California's chaparral won't make the region safer from wildfires. In fact, ...
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Why clearing the brush around Los Angeles won't reduce the wildfire danger
“We’re standing in a biodiversity hotspot right now, and chaparral is unique to California,” Algiers says. “It’s a very rare ...
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Top 12 Destinations for Dolphin Lovers
Kaikoura, New Zealand Kaikoura is renowned for its rich marine biodiversity, making it a prime location to observe dusky ...
The New Yorker29d
Inside the Fight Against a Los Angeles Inferno
On the seventh day of the Eaton Fire, the most lethal of several wildfires burning in Southern California ... looking for hot spots that could reignite. Walking side by side, we marched into ...
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After LA, fire crisis reaches Latin America — from Mexico to Argentina
In Argentinian Patagonia, fires have destroyed more than 10,100 hectares (24,958 acres) since summer began in the Southern Hemisphere ... available to fight the hotspots that arise,” González ...
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Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA)
It spans parts of five southern African countries—Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. KAZA was officially established in 2011 by the five partner countries to protect the region’s ...
westcentralonline15d
Five Saskatchewan biodiversity hotspots receive national recognition
Five sites across Saskatchewan have been officially recognized as nationally important sites for nature. Home to iconic and ...
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Vicuña poop creates biodiversity hotspots as glaciers retreat rapidly
These latrines act as little islands of nutrients and biodiversity as a recently deglaciated landscape is mostly gravel and rock, barely constituting soil, says Clifton Bueno de Mesquita ...