Articles for tag: botany, Environmental Science, Fire proof Flora, forest ecology, Nature And Fire

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Fireproof Flora: How Some Plants & Trees Need Flames to Reproduce

Suhail Ahmed

Wildfire is usually framed as the villain, but in the quiet aftermath of a burn, a stranger story unfolds: some plants have been waiting for the flames. Cones sealed by resin crack open, smoke chemicals whisper to buried seeds, and blackened ground becomes a nursery. The drama can feel upside down – destruction as midwife ...

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Storing Water in Dams Has Literally Shifted Earth’s Axis, Scientists Find

Suhail Ahmed

New research confirms that the huge amounts of water stored behind dams have not only changed sea levels but also the planet’s axis of rotation. This shocking discovery shows how much humans have affected the Earth’s geophysical processes. A study in Geophysical Research Letters says that building dams over the past 200 years has caused ...