• Southwest Michigan fruit regional report – April 29, 2014

  Published on April 29, 2014
  Apricot bloom has begun in Southwest Michigan.

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  Southwest Michigan fruit regional report – May 13, 2014

  Published on May 13, 2014
  Fruit crops are looking good. With hot weather, peaches and cherries are blooming, and apple and blueberry flowers are opening.

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  Grand Rapids area tree fruit update – April 20, 2021

  Published on April 20, 2021
  Cold weather expected to slow development of apple buds.

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  Development of critical tart cherry genomic and phenological resources for breeding purposes

  Published on July 17, 2020
  Courtney Hollender, an assistant professor in the MSU Department of Horticulture, is sequencing the Montmorency tart cherry genome to identify traits that could be beneficial to breeding efforts.

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  In spite of inclement weather, the Van Buren County Breakfast on the Farm event went off without a hitch

  Published on August 29, 2018
  The day started with pouring rain, thunder and lightning, yet nearly 2,300 people came to the first 2018 Michigan State University Extension Breakfast on the Farm event of the season.

• Forestry Technician _ Salmon Valley

  Hiring Organization: Salmon Valley
  Employment type: Full-Time
  Application Due Date: April 4, 2024
  

• Are freshwater systems in lower Mekong basin southeast Asia resilient? A synthesis of social-ecological system

  Published on November 1, 2020
  Social-ecological resilience of freshwater systems in lower Mekong basin in southeast Asia is largely unknown. Over the recent past, the freshwater ecosystems in the region have gone through severe environmental stress. Climate change, sea level rise...

• Ecological and environmental effects of land-use changes in the Loess Plateau of China

  Published on January 1, 2022
  The Loess Plateau (LP) is a typical ecologically fragile area in China, with severe water shortage and soil erosion. Understanding the interactions between land use structure and ecological processes is the basis for effective soil and water conserva...

• International Progress And Evaluation On Interactive Coupling Effects Between Urbanization And The Eco-environment

  Published on August 1, 2016
  Global urbanization is exerting severe stress and having far-reaching impacts on the eco-environment, and yet there exists a complex non-linear coupling relationship between the two. Research on the interactive coupling effect between urbanization an...

• Practitioner insights on challenges and options for advancing blue Nature-based Solutions

  Published on May 1, 2024
  The dual environmental crises of climate change and biodiversity loss pose severe threats to human health and well-being. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are promoted as an important component of the response to simultaneously address both crises. Howev...

• The spatial and seasonal complexity of PM2.5 pollution in cities from a social-ecological perspective

  Published on August 1, 2021
  Cities in developing countries worldwide are facing severe fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution. Numerous studies have been conducted to investigate how biophysical and socioeconomic factors affect PM2.5 concentration. However, most of these stu...

• Zinc isotope revealing zinc's sources and transport processes in karst region

  Published on July 1, 2020
  The heavy metal pollution, mainly caused by mining-related activities over extended period of time, is imposing a severe threat to environments and human health. Environmental systems, including rivers and paddy soils, have been widely established as...

• Observed Variability and Future Projections of Urban Heatwaves in Romania

  Published on February 1, 2025
  The crossroad between built-up areas and extreme heat generates severe consequences on both socio-ecological systems and the natural environment, and the cities are the most vulnerable. The impact is already significant in the present climate and it ...

• Ecosystem service benefits and costs of deep-sea ecosystem restoration

  Published on February 1, 2022
  Deep-sea ecosystems are facing degradation which could have severe consequences for biodiversity and the livelihoods of coastal populations. Ecosystem restoration as a natural based solution has been regarded as a useful means to recover ecosystems. ...

• A bibliometric review of climate change cascading effects: past focus and future prospects

  Published on March 1, 2025
  The cascading effects of climate change have inflicted severe damage on natural ecosystems and socio-economic systems, posing formidable challenges to economic, social, and environmental development. However, a notable gap exists in systematic litera...

• Ecological and economic basis of anti-erosion stability of forest-agrarian landscapes

  Published on January 1, 2018
  The ecological and economic foundations of rational nature management in restoring various kinds of protective forest stands under conditions of severe damage and destruction of wood-shrubby species in the natural-climatic and economic zones of the c...

• Ravine lands in north-western states of India and their developmental potential

  Published on January 1, 2020
  Gully erosion has led to severe terrain deformation alongside some of major river systems of India. These ravine lands of some major river systems are economically and ecologically hyper-sensitive riparian landscapes which play a crucial role in floo...

• Research progress on world natural heritage conservation: its buffer zones and the implications

  Published on July 6, 2022
  In recent decades, World Heritage Sites (WHSs) have faced external severe threats in the context of global economisation and urbanisation. The buffer zone as a conservation layer and management tool for WHSs has attracted increasing scholarly attenti...

• A Review of Ecological Concepts and Quantitative Methods of Resilience

  Published on July 25, 2024
  Over the last decades, resilience has increasingly become a hot research topic of international community in the context that global ecosystems are suffering from severe degradation due to natural disasters and anthropogenic disturbance. This paper p...