Tag: Conservation
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...
To solve climate change and biodiversity loss, we need a Global...
Greg Asner, Arizona State University
Earth’s cornucopia of life has evolved over 550 million years. Along the way, five mass extinction events have caused serious...
As climate change erodes US coastlines, an invasive plant could become...
Judith Weis, Rutgers University Newark
Many invasive species are found along U.S. coasts, including fishes, crabs, mollusks and marsh grasses. Since the general opinion...
Thoreau’s great insight for the Anthropocene: Wildness is an attitude, not...
Robert M. Thorson, University of Connecticut
When Americans quote writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, they often reach for his assertion that “In Wildness is...
Sequencing the white shark genome is cool, but for bigger insights...
Gavin Naylor, University of Florida
The headlines are eye-catching: Scientists have sequenced the genome of white sharks. Or the bamboo lemur, or the golden eagle....
To preserve US national parks in a warming world, reconnect fragmented...
Stephen Nash, University of Richmond
The Trump administration’s decision to keep many U.S. national parks open during the current federal government shutdown, with few or...
As hunting declines, efforts grow to broaden the funding base for...
Lincoln Larson, North Carolina State University
Hunting is a seasonal ritual for more than 11 million Americans in fall and winter. For those whose quarry...
Hurricanes and water wars threaten the Gulf Coast’s new high-end...
Daniel R. Petrolia, Mississippi State University and William C. Walton, Auburn University
For Cainnon Gregg, 2018 started out as a great year. After leaving his...
EXPLORING NATURE
Paving paradise: Dismantling the US Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife,...
Mariah Meek, Michigan State University and Travis Belote, Montana State University
Pause for a moment and listen. What do...
