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60 Years of Data Show Shifts in the Winter Ranges of Three Duck Species in the Midwest

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Detecting a Grassland Invader, Above and Below Ground

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As Lakes Warm and Ice Seasons Shorten, Anglers Are Catching Different Fish Across the Midwest

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February 9, 2016

Food for Billions: Inland Fisheries and World Food Security

Reston, VA – Inland capture fisheries are much more crucial to global food security than realized, according to the first global review of the value...

February 8, 2016

Supporting Transportation Research and Operations with Weather Hazard Datasets

Extreme weather conditions produce substantial strain on transportation systems. Scientists are developing weather hazard datasets, based on climate...

January 21, 2016

Evolutionary Clock Ticks for Snowshoe Hares Facing Climate Change

New research from NCCWSC-funded scientists at North Carolina State University and the University of Montana shows that the evolutionary clock is...

December 21, 2015

New Report Describes the Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI)

EDDI is a drought index that can serve as an indicator of both rapidly evolving “flash” droughts (developing over a few weeks) and sustained droughts...

December 14, 2015

Climate Past as Prologue for Ponderosa Pines

Scientists from the National Park Service and the U.S. Geological Survey have reconstructed the recent migration history of ponderosa pine trees in...

December 11, 2015

New Vegetation Models Serve as "Story-telling Tools" to Help Protect Habitat for Spotted Owls and Sage Grouse

Researchers are working to incorporate information from global climate models, process-based models, specific vegetation models and human activities...

November 23, 2015

Massachusetts Launches Wildlife Climate Action Tool to Help Conservation Managers, Landowners Respond to Climate Change

A coalition of research institutions and fish and wildlife agencies this week unveiled a new online tool for use by local decision-makers...

November 20, 2015

South Central Climate Science Center receives DOI Environmental Achievement Award

The South Central Climate Science Center is the recipient of the DOI 2015 Environmental Achievement Award for "Climate Science and Partnerships-...

November 5, 2015

Wildfires May Double Erosion Across a Quarter of Western US Watersheds by 2050

In recent years, wildfires have burned trees and homes to the ground across many states in the western U.S., but the ground itself has not gotten away...

November 4, 2015

Urban Environments Boost Pathogen Pressure on Honey Bees

Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that urban environments increase pathogen abundance in honey bees (Apis mellifera) and...

November 3, 2015

Climate Change Refugia Research in the White Mountains of New Hampshire

Toni Lyn Morelli, USGS Research Ecologist at the NE CSC, is working to tease apart mechanisms causing ecological changes in northeastern U.S...

October 19, 2015

A Nation Parched for Research on Ecological Drought

While prolonged drought with widespread impacts on food and water supplies for people is among the oldest stories in human history, ecological drought...

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