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Protect your favorite lake with these tips. Lake associations can download a file to print a magnet and distribute to members or place in lakefront rentals.

As the National Program Director at Trees Water & People (TWP), Dr. Small and her team engage with direct support for Indigenous nonprofits and natural resource experts within US Tribal Nations

The net increase each year in the amount of carbon stored in the world’s forests is a critically important sink and offsets a meaningful portion of the world’s annual greenhouse gas emissions. But the majority of credits sold on carbon offset markets, particularly for credits based on unrealistic baselines, provide no real offset to greenhouse gas emissions at all.

Catskill Science Collaborative Fellows share the results of their summer research. Topics to be explored include: using remote sensing to monitor hemlock woolly adelgid, an invasive forest pest, and safely managing interactions between people and black bears. 

We all have heard that photosynthesis is the source of energy that powers the biosphere—have you thanked a green plant today? But, where did the earliest life evolve on Earth about 3500 million years ago?

An international team of researchers, community scientists, and managers is working together to understand and manage lakes around the world. The Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON) includes over 170 lakes in 63 countries; its members are working together to reveal lakes’ response to environmental change.

The use of co-occurrence data to identify ecological ‘interactions’, as well as its use in niche and species distribution modelling, has had a long and chequered history.

In 2002, a young Berkeley professor, Tyrone Hayes, reported that deformed frogs were most prevalent in farm ponds in counties across the United States where the herbicide atrazine was sold in the largest quantities

Last Saturday, NPR’s Weekend Edition ran a story about keeping snails as pets, and I wish they hadn’t.

Many cities are working to create new green spaces, but success is mixed. Greening projects are often expensive and labor-intensive. This can be a barrier to greening in low-income communities. For projects that enjoy a strong start, insufficient planning for long-term maintenance is common.

Climate change is altering winter weather in the Northeast, leading to less snow and more ice. Join scientists Peter Groffman and Lindsey Rustad for a virtual Cary Science Conversation with Cary President Joshua Ginsberg. They discuss how winters are changing, consequences for forest ecosystems, and adaptations.

Whether they are used on the very young or the very old, disposable diapers must be regarded as one of the most convenient products of modern society. Question is: what type of impact do these products have on the environment?

Ecologists have largely avoided race and racism as ecological factors, but events in 2020 have made it impossible to continue to ignore these impacts.

Join us for session 2 of the Catskill Science Collaborative’s Research Fellowship Program updates. Topics to be explored include: assessing efficacy of stream restoration projects and measuring stream habitat quality.

Over the past decade, green infrastructure (GI) has emerged as a favored intervention within urban areas struggling to resolve issues related to stormwater, pollution, and degraded environmental quality.

Cary's founder Gene Likens is among the current and past presidents of the American Institute of Biological Sciences issuing a Call to Action on Marshaling Science for Society.

In Baltimore, Maryland, people living in low-income urban neighborhoods are more at risk of contracting West Nile virus, a mosquito-borne disease, than people living in more affluent neighborhoods. So reports a new study published in the Journal of Medical Entomology.

The rapid expansion of urbanization across the globe induces restructuring of ecological communities. As apex predators are both particularly sensitive to anthropogenic disturbance and essential for maintaining ecosystem function, understanding adaptive capacity or phenotypic plasticity informs their resiliency in cityscapes.

As the world watches scientist and policymakers working to manage a global crisis, looking at how a similar challenge was successfully addressed can be a source of encouragement.