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I ran between two worlds as a kid. One world was green; it was wild and raw. It was an imagined landscape in the Amazon rainforest or the trenches of the deep ocean.

The Catskill Science Collaborative is offering three virtual lectures on how climate change is impacting the Catskill region.

The microbes that cause diseases like COVID-19, SARS, and Ebola originated in wildlife before making the jump to people. What causes zoonotic diseases to spill over?

Members of Generation Z, like all ecologists, feel an obligation to care for the planet and enact change. We have grown up with constant access to information, and when it comes to the planet, most news tends to be discouraging.

Nine million New York City residents depend on the Catskills for drinking water. Climatologist Dr. Allan Frei of Hunter College will present a historical perspective on storms, floods, and droughts in the Catskills. 

Explore New York State wildlife, their ecological roles, and the threats they face. Sessions are appropriate for anyone interested in learning about wildlife stewardship, from small backyards to large landholdings.

Wildlife biologist Michael Fargione shows step-by step how to set-up a trail cam.

Resilience is an emergent property of an ecosystem that reflects the amount of disturbance the system can withstand before shifting into an alternative stable state

The climate crisis is making us more vulnerable to ticks in an unprecedented and growing threat to public health, according to a new report.

Work done at Cary Institute and other research organizations has revealed that road salt doesn’t just wash off roads into streams and rivers, eventually disappearing into the sea. Instead, much of it is retained locally, where it accumulates in lakes, sediments, soil, and, perhaps most troubling, in groundwater.

In 1918, the last captive Carolina parakeet died in a Cincinnati zoo. After a few possible sightings in the wild, the species was declared extinct. What could have driven it to extinction?

The Gulf Stream is a well-defined ocean current, which moves northward from the tropical regions of the Atlantic Ocean. On the surface, it has no obvious boundaries, like a river on land, but it carries more water than the world’s largest river—the Amazon

Rising sea level from warming ocean temperatures and melting polar ice caps is an ongoing and well documented response to climate change. The current rate of rise averages about 3.5 mm/yr or about 10 cm by 2050; however the rate is itself accelerating.

Over the past five decades mosquito populations in parts of the U.S. have skyrocketed by a factor of 10—a situation with worrying implications for the spread of diseases such as West Nile virus, dengue and chikungunya.

A story circulating this month about the eradication of a population of the Chinese pond mussel (Sinanodonta woodiana) has been offered as an example of a success story in invasive species management. But when I read this story, I was left feeling that I had learned more about the failures of contemporary non-native species management than its successes.

It was 90 degrees. I was walking through a forest in Connecticut, trying to find a small plot of seedlings I had planted a few weeks before. It was my job to measure invasive plants in different forest haibtats as they grew all summer.

In recent years, we’ve been concerned about lead contamination in the environment—from leaded gasoline, leaded paints, lead pipes, lead solder, and emissions from smelters to the atmosphere.