Search Results

James Cave of The Jiffy: Stories From Upstate New York speaks to Cary soil ecologist Jane Lucas about mud season and soils. They talk about microbial dormancy, Jane's stressed-out soil experiments, why New York has such intense mud, and whether it’s possible to have a mud season on Mars.

In this interactive lecture, we will together explore ways of thinking, doing, and being that support building caring partnerships among educators, researchers, and human and nonhuman communities. 

In temperate forests, scarcity of nitrogen – a vital nutrient – often constrains plant growth, while nitrogen excess causes a host of soil, air, and water pollution problems

Dr. Cary Fowler, an American agriculturalist who recently served as the U.S. Special Envoy for Global Food Security discusses how feeding a growing global population by 2050 will depend on getting the fundamentals right: maintaining fertile soils, ensuring reliable water supplies, and developing productive crops adapted to a changing climate.

The terrestrial carbon sink is a critical climate regulator, yet its primary drivers remain highly uncertain. While forest biomass is often the "obvious suspect," emerging empirical evidence suggests a paradigm shift: the "missing sink" is largely belowground. 

Using data from sampling throughout the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest and the White Mountains in New Hampshire, Dr. Kraus and colleagues seek to model the effect of bryophytes on river network-scale processes.

Dr. Melissa Pingree is a Research Applications Scientist with the Western Fire and Forest Resilience Collaborative, where she works to translate fire and forest science into practical tools, syntheses, and guidance for land managers across the western United States.

Using Lyme disease and West Nile virus as models, disease ecologist Dr. Richard Ostfeld describes how diverse animal populations minimize our exposure to emerging infectious diseases.

Now Trump is busy expunging the possibility of climate change and models predicting its impact from all aspects of government. The White House would prefer that we ignore emissions and pursue use of fossil fuels at will.

Trump and his disciples have dismantled the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF)—all of which have made U.S. science the best in the world.

Science should be accompanied by formal risk assessment. In areas where measles vaccinations have been curtailed, largely on grounds of personal philosophies, the cases of measles have skyrocketed, when just a few years ago this disease was nearly extirpated in the United States.

Drawing on several of his journeys, Schlesinger’s lecture explores how climate change and pollution threaten this remote region, which supports penguins, seals, and fragile marine-based ecosystems.

Mike Clark, Executive Director of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, talks about some of Yellowstone’s most iconic wildlife, and discusses how climate change, shrinking habitat, and politics are shaping its future.

Hospitals are already seeing an unusually high number of emergency room visits for bites, which are raising concerns about Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses.