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<div><font face="Lucida Grande">Logging can decrease water
infiltration into forest soils, study finds<br>
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA<br>
Public Release: 17-Aug-2016</font></div>
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Researchers have found that logging operations can negatively affect
soil density and water infiltration within forests, particularly along
makeshift logging roads and landing areas where logs are stored before
being trucked to sawmills.</font></div>
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JOURNAL<br>
<i>Geoderma</i></font></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande">Original U of Missouri
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande">"We found that along these
logging roads and landing areas, the soil was more dense and compact
with slower water infiltration than in the surrounding, untouched
areas of the forest," Anderson said. "This can cause many
environmental challenges in forests because dense soil prevents
rainwater from soaking in; rather, this water will run off and cause
erosion. This erosion can carry fertile topsoil away from forests,
which enters streams and makes it difficult for those forests being
logged to regenerate with new growth as well as polluting surface
water resources."</font></div>
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color="#1A1A1A">3 from Nature's Special Issue on coasts.<br>
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</font><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#1A1A1A">Public Release:
4-Dec-2013<br>
</font><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#1A1A1A"> Nature<br>
</font><font face="Verdana" size="-2" color="#1A1A1A"><b>Humans
threaten wetlands' ability to keep pace with sea-level rise<br>
</b></font><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#1A1A1A">Left to
themselves, coastal wetlands can withstand rapid levels of sea-level
rise. But humans could be sabotaging some of their best defenses,
according to a Nature review paper published Thursday from from the
Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the Smithsonian Environmental
Research Center.<br>
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</font><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#1A1A1A">Public Release:
4-Dec-2013<br>
</font><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#1A1A1A"> Nature<br>
</font><font face="Verdana" size="-2" color="#1A1A1A"><b>Sea level
rise and shoreline changes are lead influences on floods from tropical
cyclones<br>
</b></font><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#1A1A1A">Writing in
the current special issue of Nature dedicated to coastal regions,
UMass Amherst geoscientist Woodruff, with co-authors Jennifer Irish of
Virginia Tech University and Suzana Camargo of Columbia University,
say, "Society must learn to live with a rapidly evolving
shoreline that is increasingly prone to flooding from tropical
cyclones."<br>
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</font><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#1A1A1A">Public Release:
4-Dec-2013<br>
</font><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#1A1A1A">Nature<br>
</font><font face="Verdana" size="-2" color="#1A1A1A"><b>Sea-level
rise to drive coastal flooding, regardless of changes in hurricane
activity<br>
</b></font><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#1A1A1A">Clamor about
whether climate change will cause increasingly destructive tropical
storms may be overshadowing a more unrelenting threat to coastal
property -- sea-level rise -- according to a team of researchers
writing in the journal Nature this week.</font><br>
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