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If we are to store carbon in soils, better management of agricultural lands might be one avenue to pursue—albeit confined to about 10% of the Earth’s land surface that is cultivated.

Roads bring habitat fragmentation, drainage-diversion, wildlife barriers, and noise and air pollution. Roads are the source of road-salt pollution that now widely affects streams and lakes in colder climates. But the most insidious impact of road construction is the conversion of habitat that follows human entrance into natural areas.

Sprawl follows the growth of cities worldwide. An estimated 54% of us now live in urban areas, which are expected to grow dramatically in the next few decades.

Leaky sewer pipes are to blame for large amounts of human medicines getting into rivers, lakes and other bodies of water, a new study reveals.

Last month’s discovery of round gobies in the Hudson should remind us of our failures in invasive species management and spur us to do better. Today, New York has a rare opportunity to use the "Reimagine the Canals" initiative to slow the spread of harmful aquatic invaders.

Supplying food to the world’s population now accounts for about 1/3 of human emissions of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, much of it from the loss of carbon content from soils converted to agriculture.  Worldwide, soils have lost about 133 billion metric tons of carbon since first cultivation.

The news that round gobies were just found in the Hudson River raises questions about how these invaders will change the Hudson ecosystem. It also reminds us that weak policies on invasive species needlessly risk the future of our natural resources.

Importers are learning that relying on the ISPM#15 mark to ensure that solid wood packaging material is pest-free can be a costly mistake. We propose a private sector solution for keeping insect pests out of wood packaging material and dunnage used in international trade.

Ecologist Gene Likens’s quest to save America from acid rain started in New Hampshire, took him around the world, and led him Washington, DC.

Pharmaceutical pollution is one of the top problems for the Hudson River. With more medication drop boxes, fewer unused drugs may end up in the river in the form of pharmaceutical pollution.

Discover how fires in the western United States are changing, what this means for people and ecosystems, and how fire modeling can guide management.  

Breakbulk cargo imports into the United States are on the upswing, and so are discoveries of dangerous wood-boring pests in the dunnage and wood packaging material (WPM) that protect these imports in transit. Unfortunately for importers and carriers, violations can trigger huge fines, costly re-exportation of entire shipments, and a cascade of disruptive knock-on effects.

Discover the causes and social-ecological consequences of increased wildfire in the western US. A panel of experts discuss why wildfires are on the rise, the role of climate change, the predicted fate of future forests, and ways that at-risk communities can adapt.

Sri Lanka has been identified as one of the global biodiversity hotspots due to the high endemicity and extensive loss and degradation of natural ecosystems. In this backdrop, the contribution of the researcher towards the conservation and sustainable utilization of biodiversity is discussed.

A fundamental focus in ecology is understanding interactions between environmental heterogeneity and ecological community structure, which are currently undergoing unprecedented alterations due to global change. In particular, many freshwater phytoplankton communities are experiencing multiple global change stressors, altering phytoplankton community composition, biomass, and spatial distribution.

Ecologist Gene Likens’s quest to save America from acid rain started in New Hampshire, took him around the world, and led him Washington, DC.

At least one study more than a decade ago estimated that the cultivation of cannabis indoors accounted for 1% of electricity use in the United States.  Marijuana is now big business.

One of the most rapid pathways through which climate warming could alter the structure and function of high-latitude ecosystems is through intensification of wildfire disturbance.

The climate in places like California, Chile and the Namib Desert share traits that shape their coastal fog, like sharp contrasts between sea and land temperatures, strong coastal currents in the oceans and regional wind shifts.