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Summer Institutes
… Teacher training on Cary's 2,000 acre campus and nearby field sites. In addition to exposure to the Cary Institute's …
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How Biodiversity Can Prevent Pandemics
… prevented. The survey does note that past studies have reported a slight correlation between biodiversity and … danger?” With these questions in mind, policy-makers and public health experts will be better able to prevent …
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Baltimore and Beijing: A learning expedition to China
… of unregistered residents were not permitted to attend public schools. Furthermore, unregistered rural migrants … slogans. However, it strikes me that most uses in the public discourse in China and elsewhere are rather vague and … and lifestyle. Some villages continue to exist, but become sites of industrial production as factories excluded from …
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Invasive Japanese knotweed exacerbates flood risk
… can spread to cover an area the size of 1/5 of a football field. The plant’s imposing aboveground presence … compete and perish as a result. Marist College’s campus on the Hudson River has seen many attempts to … knotweed. One attempt involved releasing goats on the campus to munch the invader. The only way to get rid of …
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A call to action: Marshaling science for society
… interest groups on the use of scientific knowledge to guide public policy decision-making alarming and dangerous." … White House Coronavirus Task Force. Most experts in the field disagree with this approach, but there has been no … and priorities for biological science organizations: A report from the 2017 meeting of the AIBS council of member …
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Phenology: telling time by nature’s clock, with cary institute
… the Institute. It’s a small parcel of land with little trails and boardwalks and a deck that overlooks the creek. … & Management Alliance is a group of about eight sites along the Hudson River, from the New York Botanical … endeavor by the national network. There are phenology trails all over the country. [Individuals anywhere …
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The moss is always greener on the science side
… more qualitative research, analyzing surveys to understand public perceptions of burning woody biomass as a heat … Brook Research Forest. The white boxes denote my study sites. Red lines mark 40ft contour lines. The longest stream …
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Can we capture the carbon?
… When I speak to public audiences about climate change, people often ask: … energy? Produced in collaboration with WAMC Northeast Public Radio, this podcast originally aired on May 20, 2013. …
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The hidden inequality of mosquito bites
… noise to slower Internet speeds. Now, a team of public health researchers studying neighborhoods in … extent that there's good news for low-income areas in the report, it's this: the same strategies to reduce general … do a quick survey of your yard or neighborhood and address sites where water pools. Planters, clogged gutters, …
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Acid Reign
… Likens had to speak out. His new aim was to educate the public and lawmakers about the dangerous effects of acid … were soon picked up by newspapers and television, featuring images of buildings and headstones bearing the telltale … work, the government now sponsors 28 long-term ecological sites, all modeled on HBEF. Continuously funded since 1963, …
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