16/03/2016
Every year on the International Day of Forests we celebrate the ways in which forests and trees sustain and protect us. This year we are raising awareness of how forests are key to the planet’s supply of freshwater, which is essential for life.
International Day of Forests 2016
Forests are vital to our water supply. They influence how and where rain falls, and they filter and cleanclean our water. By protecting the world’s forests, ...
16/10/2015
Gestão Sustentada dos Montados de Sobro. Soluções de Engenharia Florestal para a Gestão Adaptativa
Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas / Divulgações / Notícias
Universidade de Évora - Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas
16/08/2015
Weathering and Soil
Weathering and Soil 0 Geology, soil 8:34 PM A+ A- Print Email how soil form Weathering is the mechanical breakdown of rock and the associated chemical alteration of minerals that occurs at the Earth’s surface. Weathering is part of a process of breakdown of rock and transport of the resulting mater…
02/08/2015
Did you know that pests smaller than a penny could wipe out millions of trees in the Northeastern forests of the United States? This is why we’ve developed a technology that helps the U.S. Forest Service understand the impacts of these pests, and monitor the health of trees in the area. Details: http://go.nasa.gov/1hdl2YN
26/07/2015
Forests of the Cal Madow
Forests in the highlands of northern Somalia are important sources of frankincense and myrhh. Read more at http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86292&src=fb
Today’s caption is the answer to Earth Observatory’s July 2015 image puzzler. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2015/07/21/july-puzzler-3/?src=fb
25/07/2015
Smoke Over the Greenland Sea
The 2015 wildfire season in the Arctic has been very intense – and very smoky. As of July 15, over 3,190,000 acres had burned across Canada,...