Tag: Conservation
Battlefields around the world are finding new purpose as parks and...
Todd Lookingbill, University of Richmond and Peter Smallwood, University of Richmond
The horrors of war are all too familiar: lives lost, homes destroyed, entire communities...
Why ‘acting locally’ is impossible in an interconnected world
Jennifer M. Bernstein, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Like many Americans, I worry about the state of the...
The Amazon is burning: 4 essential reads on Brazil’s vanishing rainforest
Catesby Holmes, The Conversation
Nearly 40,000 fires are incinerating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the latest outbreak in an overactive fire season that has charred 1,330 square...
Black bears adapt to life near humans by burning the midnight...
Kathy Zeller, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amid reports that human activities are pushing many wild species to the edge of extinction, it’s easy to miss...
Shark Week looms, but don’t panic
Gavin Naylor, University of Florida
Sharks elicit outsized fear, even though the risk of a shark bite is infinitesimally small. As a marine biologist and...
Women are rising in the conservation movement, but still face #MeToo...
Megan Jones, Colorado State University and Jennifer Solomon, Colorado State University
The #MeToo movement has caused profound shake-ups at organizations across the U.S. in the...
Women are rising in the conservation movement, but still face #MeToo...
Megan Jones, Colorado State University and Jennifer Solomon, Colorado State University
The #MeToo movement has caused profound shake-ups at organizations across the U.S. in the...
Populist alliances of ‘cowboys and Indians’ are protecting rural lands
Zoltan Grossman, Evergreen State College
The sea of red on recent election maps make it look like rural areas are uniformly populated by Republicans. And...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
