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http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2014/10/sea-ice-small-multiples/

A quick and rather late notice, of particular relevance to readers in NYC: I’ll be on a panel this Friday, September 26, for The Five Thousand Pound Life’s “Land” symposium, which is co-...

http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2014/09/the-five-thousand-pound-life-land/

Continuing the theme of Sandy-inspired rumination on the risks and rewards of littoral urbanization, a pair of articles by Justin Gillis and Felicity Barringer at the New York Times utilize the ...

http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2012/11/longshore-transport-and-littoral-drift/

One of the primary reasons that mammoth has been relatively quiet this year is the effort that Stephen and I, as two of the four current members of the Dredge Research Collaborative, have put in...

http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2012/11/dredgefest-nyc-video-archive/

At Weather Underground, Jeff Masters reflects on the extreme weather of 2010 — which included monsoon flooding in China, the Pakistani floods (the most expensive disaster in Pakistan’s histo...

http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2011/06/patterns/

An article from Sunday’s Washington Post discusses the development of “climate defense systems”, resulting from an increasing interest in not just climate change prevention, but also climat...

http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2009/12/climate-defense-systems/

A couple months ago, The Dirt highlighted an article from the Times about Alabama’s “War on Cogongrass”, in which Alabama’s forestry commission and a hired company of landscape managers, ...

http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2009/11/pueraria-lobata/

Farmers in the Sahel are combating desertification with trees — but by cultivating them, not planting them: Amidst his fields of millet and sorghum, Sawadogo is also growing trees. And the tree...

http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2009/08/tree-cultivation-in-the-sahel/

An article in the most recent issue of the Atlantic Monthly explores aggressive “geo-engineering” projects: “Humans have been aggressively transforming the planet for more than 200 years. T...

http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2009/06/re-engineering-the-earth/