The Everglades, located at the southern tip of peninsular Florida, is the most famous wetland in the United States and one of the most distinct in the world. The Everglades is unique among the world’s large wetlands because it derives its water from rainfall. Other large and famous wetlands, such as the Pantanal of South America, the Okavango of Botswana, and the Llanos in Venezuela and Colombia, derive most of their water and nutrient inputs from river flooding. The unique sheet flow, the slow flow of water over shallow, broad tracts of marsh, inspired Douglas to name the Everglades, River of Grass.

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Jason A. Hubbart, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of forest hydrology at the University of Missouri - Columbia. He serves as an undergraduate advisor, and currently teaches courses in watershed management, water quality, physical hydrology, ecological climatology, and environmental biophysics.

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The word “biodiversity” is a contracted version of “biological diversity”. The Convention on Biological Diversity defines biodiversity as:

“the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the…

The indigenous peoples of the Arctic have adapted to great environmental variability, cold, extended winter darkness, and fluctuations in animal populations, among many other challenges posed by geography and climate. Although the arctic climate has always undergone change, current and projected changes make it timely and important to reflect on the ways that such changes affect arctic residents, particularly the indigenous residents whose way of life is so closely linked to their surroundings.

The endowment value of forests and woodlands in Africa is enormous, and can be used to promote a wide range of livelihood opportunities, including increased income and enhanced livelihood security. However, as forests and woodlands are declining, primarily as a result of increased woodfuel collection, clearing of forests for agriculture, illegal and poorly regulated timber extraction, conflicts, increasing urbanization and industrialization, these opportunities are diminishing.

The Oyashio Current Large Marine Ecosystem (LME) is characterized by its sub-arctic climate. It is influenced by the cold Oyashio Current (“parent current”), also known as the Kurile Current. The Oyashio Current originates in the Sea of Okhotsk and flows south along the southern Kurile Islands. It meets the warmer Kuroshio Current off the coast of Japan’s Honshu Island. The topography of the LME includes the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench and Rise.

A carbon footprint is the measure of the amount of greenhouse gases, measured in units of carbon dioxide, produced by human activities. A carbon footprint can be measured for an individual or an organization, and is typically given in tons of CO₂-equivalent (CO₂-eq) per year. For example, the average North American generates about 20 tons of CO₂-eq each year.

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Bumblebees (of the genus Bombus) are common native bees and important pollinators in most areas of North America. In spring, queens emerge from underground where they have spent the winter, and look for a nest site, often found underground in an old mouse nest or rodent burrow. Bumblebees visit flowers for the nectar and pollen upon which they feed, and once the eggs they lay have hatched, they use those plant resources to feed larval worker bees.