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Green infrastructure has been embraced as a tool to help cities achieve sustainability and resilience goals while improving the lives of urban residents. How green infrastructure is defined guides the types of projects that cities implement, with enduring impacts to people and the urban environment.

For the last 2 million years, immense ice sheets repeatedly grew and spread across Michigan, and then receded, as the climate cooled and warmed. As recently as 20,000 years ago, the whole state of Michigan was submerged in an ocean of flowing ice more than a mile deep.

The history of green infrastructure implementation in Baltimore shows that what communities care about and care for has been co-opted into practices of maintenance for others. The current state of many facilities demonstrates this approach is not effective. It is time to experiment with a new way forward.

As COVID-19 continues to spread, John Oliver discusses what could cause the next pandemic, what we can do to avoid it, and why you shouldn’t kiss pigs. Cary's Rick Ostfeld talks about the connection between Lyme disease and habitat fragmentation.

The Atlantic Northern Right Whale is an endangered species, with (at last count) only 366 individuals left, including 70 females. They were gravely overfished during the era of intensive whaling.

Cary postdoc Megan Fork discusses her path to ecology, challenges and rewards of a career in science, and what she’s working on now at Cary.

An overview of the Hudson Data Jam competition for middle and high school students, plus the Family Data Jam. 

Resilience is a topic that invites both passion and confusion. This combination of emotional states is likely to continue to govern discussions regardless of attempts to quell either one. However, from a basic science perspective, it is possible to identify dimensions along which confusion may grow, and so help provide some clarity in thought.

Our maple trees face a growing threat - a destructive, wood-boring insect named the Asian long-horned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis). This is just one story about how invasive forest pests are threatening US trees.

Hudson Data Jam is an opportunity for students in grades 6-12, plus families, to explore ecological datasets, creatively communicate the stories they tell, and win cash prizes. Write a song, record a video, create a book, paint a mural – your imagination is the limit!

Explore fun ways to introduce Data Jam to students and inspire their curiosity about their local environment.

There have been suggestions that eastern US forests are ‘maturing’ and that their productivity and potential future carbon sequestration is declining. This issue has taken on heightened importance in policy debates about the role of forest carbon sequestration in climate change mitigation.

Birds play an under-recognized role in spreading tick-borne diseases. They can travel long-distances and tend to split their time in different parts of the world, patterns that are shifting due to climate change.

It will probably be a couple of years before we know whether the pandemic drove Lyme disease rates up because people have been spending more time walking outdoors. But labs that test ticks for the disease offer hints — and it looks like Lyme numbers will be up this year.

Although black-legged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) claim much of the eastern half of the country as their home, the Lyme disease they spread is largely concentrated in the Northeast and increasingly in the upper Midwest.

Human-caused climate change "may have played a key role" in the coronavirus pandemic. That's the conclusion of a new study which examined how changes in climate have transformed the forests of Southeast Asia, resulting in an explosion of bat species in the region.

It became clear that quagga mussels would replace zebra mussels and could live much deeper than them. That meant more habitat for invasive mussels that could filter out plankton and algae, disrupting the base of the Great Lakes food chain.

By the handful, locals met the latest winter storm with rock salt, reaching into five-pound bags over and over to scatter ice-melting crystals onto recently shoveled driveways and sidewalks. On a larger scale, plow trucks equipped with spreaders did much the same on local roads.

Urban areas are on the rise and changing rapidly in form and function, with spillover effects on virtually all areas of the Earth. The UN estimates that by 2050, 68% of the world’s population will reside in urban areas.