Tag: Conservation
These four challenges will shape the next farm bill – and...
Kathleen Merrigan, Arizona State University
For the 20th time since 1933, Congress is writing a multiyear farm bill that...
Food forests are bringing shade and sustenance to US cities, one...
Karen A. Spiller, University of New Hampshire and Prakash Kashwan, Brandeis University
More than half of all people on...
Should we bring back the dodo? De-extinction is a feel-good story,...
Risa Aria Schnebly, Arizona State University and Ben A. Minteer, Arizona State University
It’s no secret that human activities...
William Wordsworth and the Romantics anticipated today’s idea of a nature-positive...
Jonathan Bate, Arizona State University
Musical performances usually happen in concert halls or clubs, but famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma...
‘Vaccinating’ frogs may or may not protect them against a pandemic...
Andrea Adams, University of California, Santa Barbara
When the COVID-19 pandemic first emerged, many wildlife disease researchers like me...
Protecting 30% of Earth’s surface for nature means thinking about connections...
Veronica Frans, Michigan State University and Jianguo "Jack" Liu, Michigan State University
A biodiversity crisis is reducing the variety...
Satellites detect no real climate benefit from 10 years of forest...
Shane Coffield, NASA and James Randerson, University of California, Irvine
Many of the companies promising “net-zero” emissions to protect...
What is a wetland? An ecologist explains
Jon Sweetman, Penn State
Wetlands are areas of land that are covered by water, or have flooded or waterlogged...
EXPLORING NATURE
Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we...
Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of Rhode Island
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects...
