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A wooden fence is depicted from raised side view. The fence is made out of brown logs and has large gaps in the fence slates.
Wood-split fencing 02
A conceptual diagram illustrates the factors that can stimulate the growth of harmful algal blooms in brackish rivers and how these blooms can negatively impact other species within the ecosystem.
Algal Bloom Causation and Impacts in Brackish…
A conceptual diagram illustrates the factors that cause brown tide algae blooms to occur in high magnitudes and what impacts these blooms have on the rest of the ecosystem.
Causes and Impacts of Brown Tide Algal Blooms
An image depicts the planting of cover crops, which grow during the winter season to stabilize the soil until the spring growing season.
Cover Crops as a Key Watershed Stewardship…
A graph illustrates the issue that the use of nitrogen fertilizers in Maryland has more than doubled since 1970.
Increased Nitrogen Fertilizer Use in Maryland…
While industrialization and urbanization have had a negative environmental impact on the Ohio River today several organizations are working together to combined economic and development opportunities with recreational and ecosystem goals. Diagram from
Main Threats and Key Features of the Ohio River…
As land use in the Chilika Lake area changes from forest to settlements and paddy agriculture sewage, and fertilizer and pesticides runoff increases into the Lake. This extra nutrient input results in algae blooms that float and sit on the bottom.
Chilika Lake Pollution Pressure
Unsustainable fishing and aquaculture practices have put pressure on the Chilika Lake ecosystem. Dead fish thrown back into the water contaminate the lake while shrimp pens trap sediment and kill juvenile fish.
Chilika Lake Fishing and Aquaculture Pressures
Diagram depicting Human-caused and natural vulnerabilities of Chesapeake Bay to climate impacts.
Human-caused and natural vulnerabilities of…
Illustration of cultural Odisha graphics associated with the east coast of India.
Cultural Odisha graphics
Illustration to depict fertilizer
Fertilizer
Illustration of a forestry worker, cutting down a tree with a chain saw.
Forestry worker
Flooded corn in field, in Maryland.
Flooded corn
Flooded cropland during heavy rains, in Maryland
Flooded cropland
Cows grazing along a stormwater ditch during heavy rains.
Stormwater ditch with cows
Corn crop growing in a field on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, USA.
Corn crop
Corn crop growing in a field on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, USA.
Corn crop closeup
By elevating the rain barrel in this vegetable garden, the property owner is more likely to get a steady water flow.
Elevated rain barrel
Horse manure is composted on an Eastern Shore of Maryland farm.
Horse manure compost pile
Landowner driving a tractor on his farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Landowner farming
Landowners and Chesapeake Watershed Forester working together on farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Landowners and forester working together
Illustration of a corn cob with husk.
Maize/corn cob 2
Grass and flower meadow up to the forest edge, on an Eastern Shore Maryland farm.
Meadow up to the forest edge
Illustration of drought.
Climate change: drought
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