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In China, a new study estimates annual bird mortality from cats at 2.7 to 5.5 billion birds each year.

Learn to recognize common Northeast trees by their shape, bark patterns, twigs, fruits, and seeds. Attention will also be given to invasive forest pests that threaten our trees.

The reinvention of Cary Institute's headquarters has reached an exciting milestone. A Topping Out ritual commemorates the placing of the highest beam on a building project.

The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked additional strategies to better quantify risks, make more precise predictions and then home in on which animals require closer surveillance.

Discover what happens when animals like trout and platypus are exposed to drugs in streams. And learn how Emma Rosi and her team are working to understand big picture impacts, including what we can do to stem the tide of pharmaceuticals and protect rivers and streams globally.

Energy and material harvesting are the most fundamental processes for living organisms. These harvesting processes occur in consumer–resource interactions, which provide the backbone of ecological and evolutionary dynamics as all organisms must acquire resources to survive and reproduce.

While periodic shutdowns due to electric blackouts, athletic events, and governmental decrees against air travel have allowed us to ascertain the effect of certain activities on air pollution, the shutdown due to COVID is the first economy-wide loss of activity.

A growing body of evidence suggests that biodiversity loss increases our exposure to both new and established zoonotic pathogens. Restoring and protecting nature is essential to preventing future pandemics

Following concerns that it is facilitating the sale of meaningless carbon credits to corporate clients, the Nature Conservancy says it’s conducting an internal review of its portfolio of carbon-offset projects.

Biodiversity is thought to be more strongly predicted by biotic drivers (e.g., competition) at local scales and by abiotic drivers (e.g., climate) at broader spatial scales, yet this theory has not been sufficiently tested from local to continental scales

Congratulations to Cary’s Steward Pickett, recipient of the Ecological Society of America's 2021 Eminent Ecologist Award, in recognition of his pioneering work on forest succession, urban ecology, and efforts to improve urban stewardship and sustainability.

When certain oxidized gases, such as sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), dissolve in water, they make it acid.  When these gases are emitted as air pollutants, they cause acid rain in the regions downwind of the source.

In North America, bats are a taxon of concern and play an important role in insect control. Bats’ response to urbanization varies.

For years, some scientists have argued that despite its benefits, biodiversity poses a major risk to human health, because the sheer variety of species in biodiverse landscapes creates greater opportunities for new pathogens to develop.

Prestigious honor recognizes Pickett’s contributions advancing the field of ecology 

A virtual Cary Science Conversation featuring National Geographic Explorer and wildlife ecologist Rae Wynn-Grant. In conversation with Cary President Josh Ginsberg, Wynn-Grant will discuss her research on black bears and grizzly bears, with a focus on how people and bears can peacefully coexist.

Anyone who has been involved in a participatory environmental science project has probably encountered at least one of these dilemmas: How can you be inclusive when not everyone has the same capacity to volunteer? 

An ecological approach to forest stewardship – virtual workshop series. Discover why forests are important and how land use history has shaped today’s forests.

The panel discussion explores the history of the imported forest pest problem, recent challenges, the economics of the issue, the role of horticulture and international shipping, and potential policy and management solutions.