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Trekking out to my research sites near North Carolina’s Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, I slog through knee-deep water on a section of trail that is completely submerged. Permanent flooding has become commonplace on this low-lying peninsula, nestled behind North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The trees growing in the water are small and stunted. Many are dead. Throughout coastal North Carolina, evidence of forest die-off is everywhere. Nearly every roadside ditch I pass while driving around the region is lined with dead or dying trees. As an ecologist studying wetland response to sea...

Sunflower cultivation in Khulna: Salinity no longer a barrier UNB 1st April, 2021 09:22:17 Salinization of soil is a serious problem in the coastal areas of Bangladesh as it has adverse effects on crop production. Despite the challenge, farmers in Khulna’s coastal areas have shown success in cultivating sunflower in fallow saline land.  New possibilities have been created to meet the demand for high quality sunflower oil. Farmers are also expecting bumper yields at low cost.  Research is underway on sunflower cultivation in the Robi season in the Salinity Management and Research Center o...

MY MEMORIES of that day have faded to sensory wisps. The richness of the aioli in which we dipped our frites. The affable exchange with a waiter who graciously allowed us to stow our stroller near the kitchen entrance. The salinity of oysters appropriately dubbed “Old Salts” and the bite of the lemon I spritzed to tame them. That visit to Kybecca took place on March 6, 2020, but it feels like a bygone era. Five days later, the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus a global pandemic. You know the rest. At the writing of this column, I haven’t dined inside a re...

Yuma border agents rescue father and 2-year-old from canal Monday A father and his two-year-old were saved from drowning in the Salinity Canal just southwest of Yuma, Monday, March 1. (Source: Yuma Border Patrol) By KOLD News 13 Staff | March 3, 2021 at 9:55 PM MST - Updated March 4 at 5:39 AM TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - On Monday, March 1, a Yuma Sector border agent courageously put his life in danger to save a father and his two-year-old child from a canal near the U.S./Mexican border. According to reports, the father strapped his child to his back in an effort to illegally cross ...

Agents perform second water rescue in week Agents perform second water rescue in week Release Date: February 22, 2021 YUMA, Ariz. – Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents rescued three illegal aliens from drowning in the Salinity Canal Thursday evening. The rescue was the second in a week where agents have saved the lives of people who misjudged the canal’s strong currents. Just before 8 p.m., agents responded to the canal near County 13 ½ after a group of 23 illegally crossed the border into the United States and then attempted to cross the canal. Two females and one male couldn’t ...