Environmental sciences/Hydrology/Watersheds
The watershed of the world’s third largest estuary — the Chesapeake Bay — covers 64,000 square miles and is home to almost 18 million people who benefit from the flood control, food sources and recreational opportunities that the ecosystem provides.
This post in the Spotlight on Science Writers series comes from Sandra Markle, author of The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs.
After decades of benefiting from past investments in agricultural science, the United States now faces a watershed moment in which it must move beyond the “arrogance of plenty,” the government’s chief agricultural scientist told a AAAS audience recently.
Roger Beachy