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Cary partners with Scenic Hudson on project exploring urban biodiversity

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Press Release

How many trees does it take to cool a city?

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Cary Conference culminates in Ambio special issue on the future of urban ecology

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Trees can clean up pollution from tailpipes, smokestacks, and wildfires — but where we plant them matters

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Bringing hands-on ecology experiments to local schoolyards

comparison between housing for elites versus Black people in Baltimore
Press Release

Ecological theory can help explain why segregation persists

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Street trees aid urban biodiversity, but mainly in wealthier neighborhoods

Press Release

To Be Equitable, US Urban Green Infrastructure Planning Must Transform

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Press Release

Strategies for achieving equitable green infrastructure in US urban planning

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Press Release

Toward a more inclusive definition of green infrastructure

Steward T.A. Pickett
Press Release

Cary Institute’s Steward Pickett Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

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Press Release

Transforming urban systems: Toward sustainability

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Blog: REU

Building sustainable cities could start with planting trees

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Urban greening success could be as simple as scattering seeds

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When trash intersects with injustice

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Gifting a white elephant, in the form of green infrastructure

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Feature

Team Cary: Zbigniew ‘Z’ Grabowski

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Injustice by design: Confronting the embedded racism of America's cities

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Feature

Getting parks out of green infrastructure purgatory

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Cloudburst-prone cities should share their umbrellas — and plans

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Media Coverage

Racist housing practices from the 1930s linked to hotter neighborhoods today

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Celebrating 20 years of urban ecology in Baltimore

Steward Pickett in West Baltimore CC by BES
Media Coverage

Expert Q&A: Steward T.A. Pickett

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Media Coverage

Study confirms what environmentalists knew about water quality: 'Sewage bad, stormwater projects good'

Media Coverage

The ecologists turning vacant lots into labs

Baltimore vacant lot with wildflowers.
Media Coverage

Greenlaurel: Solving Baltimore’s vacant lot problem, one wildflower meadow at a time

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Media Coverage

You can fight climate change in small spaces too