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To Be Equitable, US Urban Green Infrastructure Planning Must Transform
… efforts also address social injustices and inequality? A new analysis in Landscape and Urban Planning concludes … have generally not embedded equity or justice as a central concern of planning efforts,” notes Dr. Steward … of the Urban Systems Lab. More details and other project publications can be found at www.giequity.org . …
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Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost?
… times higher than normal. As early as 2006, China’s central government published the “Technical specifications … are toxic to certain types of fish, insects and amphibians, states the US Environmental Protection Agency. Chinese … In 2017, the country updated the 2002 standard with a new edition clearly dividing agents into chloride and …
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Dr. Jane M. Lucas
… from tropical forests to farmlands around the world. A central question: How are people impacting the composition … – with unknown consequences. Using field studies and new molecular tools, Lucas is examining how livestock … antibiotic resistance. The ‘One Health’ approach is central to Lucas’ work. This is the idea that agriculture, …
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Beech Bark Disease
… in the region where the trees are most abundant, including New York, New England, and southeastern Canada. What are the impacts of beech bark …
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Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend
… was deep and will be missed by many.” Raised in New York’s Capital Region, Lovett was shaped by summers at … solutions to prevent the accidental importation of new forest pests, which he came to see as the most severe … Advisory Committee, led the effort to develop a new comprehensive plan for the town, and was in the process …
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Squirrels could make monkeypox a forever problem
… call: an opportunity for the virus to set up shop in a new animal host. One lasting interspecies hop, akin to the … Han , a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute, in New York. In Central and West Africa, where the virus is endemic, …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… kids like Anderson could romp for hours in the gentle New England forest with little fear. Only later, after years … Lyme has been unrelenting in its march across the eastern United States and the Midwest. Carried by the black-legged … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Fifty-year-old law proves we can address environmental challenges
… Water Act of 1972 greatly improved sewage treatment in the United States, preventing about 700 billion pounds of toxic … Devastating storms, dying coral reefs, frightening new pollutants, invasive species, widespread extinctions – … storms, rising seas and other problems. So perhaps the central lesson of the Clean Water Act should be impatience …
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In Panama, nitrogen-fixing trees unlock phosphorus and other scarce nutrients
… Tropical Forests A new study , published this week in Proceedings of the … soils beneath nitrogen fixers were teeming with a bacterial genus new to science (Candidatus Acidoferrum) that thrives in the …
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Strategies for achieving equitable green infrastructure in US urban planning
… benefit all urban residents? This question guided two new projects: a nationwide analysis of green infrastructure … from Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and the New School’s Urban Systems Lab analyzed 122 green … press release .) Discover related resources, including publications, essays, a white paper , a Story Map , …
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