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From the EPA Office of Risk Management Research -- A new report: Gauging the Effectiveness of Riparian Buffers has now been released. From the web site: Though riparian buffer efficiency varied widely among individual studies, EPA meta-analysis found important trends. While some narrow buffers (up to...

There are several recent (OK, last month) articles posted on the US Climate Science Program web site, they include the following: Final Report, Synthesis and Assessment Product 1.2 Past Climate Variability and Change in the Arctic and at High Latitudes . Final Report, Synthesis and Assessment Product...

EPA teams with National Geographic Society and World Resources Institute to map ecosystem services (Washington, DC – October 29, 2008) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is collaborating with the National Geographic Society and the World Resources Institute to develop tools that will help...

The U.S. government's Climate Change Science Program has morphed (spawned?) a new website: The US Global Change Research Program. The content is similar but the new site came on-line on August 1, 2008. New to the website is the release of Our Changing Planet , a new report from this group detailing...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is offering online training through its Watershed Academy . The Web site offers a variety of self-paced training modules that present a basic and broad introduction to watershed management. Organized in six modules, it is estimated that each module can be completed...

There are several new reports or draft reports for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program . U.S. EPA has released its final report: Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems . Download the full report . Download the summary brochure . U.S. Climate Change...

Back in May, the U.S. Climate Change Science Program release new reports on climate change on agriculture Today, June 20, 2008, the Environmental Protection Agency , in partnership with the US Climate Change Science Program has released a final report entitled " Preliminary Review of Adaptation...

US EPA has just released its June 2008 edition of Watershed News . Among the items of important to the Ecosystem Services Group include: U.S. Fish and Wildlife National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grants Program - Proposals due June 27, 2008 Community Action for a Renewed Environment RFP Expected in...

U.S. EPA has a Farm, Ranch, and Rural Communities Federal Advisory Committee that provides stakeholder input to the EPA on issues relative to these groups. They held a meeting on March 13, 14, 2008 in Washington, DC. EPA has just recently posted the PowerPoint presentations from the meeting. Some of...

U.S. EPA has released a report on the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks over the period of 1990-2006. This is a huge report, 473 pages, dated April 15, 2008. For more information about the reports or to download parts of the report, go to the U.S. EPA Greenhouse Gas Inventory Reports...