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Postdoctoral researcher Chelsey Nieman discusses her career pathway, how she discovered her science passion, and advice to young scientists.

In cities around the country, if you want to understand the history of a neighborhood, you might want to do the same thing you'd do to measure human health: Check its temperature.

Urban ecologist Timon McPhearson was part of a recent study looking at the ways that cities around the world are adapting to prepare for cloudburst-driven floods, which are increasing in frequency and intensity due to climate change.

How is declining biodiversity affecting the occurrence and spread of Lyme disease? Is there a way to reduce the transmission of tick-borne diseases using ecological approaches?

Guest  post by Professor James Clark of Duke University who serves as a Laureate for Make Our Planet Great Again (MOPGA), a program of France’s President Macron. In December, Jim met with government officials in Paris, where he was asked to address specific problems of the environment, such as policy priorities that address biodiversity threats.

A film about the sampling of water from 520 lakes in the Adirondack Park that explains the science behind the research and shows spectacular scenery from around the Park. Narrated by Dr Charles Canham and Ed McNeil.

A group of Cornell students visit the Cary Institute for a week to measure trace gases.

Gene Likens is awarded the 2001 National Medal of Science for his work on acid rain.

Microbial ecologist Peter Groffman consults with NatGeo's David Rees who is looking to design a perfect hole and wants to know what kind of dirt he needs to make it.

The zebra mussel, a notorious invasive species, has been silently infesting the rocky bottom of the Hudson River since it arrived there in 1991.

Cement and concrete are essential to the construction of nearly all roads and buildings in the modern world. The production of these materials is responsible for substantial emissions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, from two sources.

The hemlock woolly adelgid, native to East Asia, is slowly killing trees from Maine to Georgia. It's among the latest in a line of invasive pests slipping into the US.

American Museum of Natural History documentary on Lyme disease featuring research conducted at the Cary Institute by Dr. Richard Ostfeld and his team.

Cary's Rick Ostfeld and Kelly Oggenfuss explain some basic factors that influence the chance of getting bitten by a Lyme infected tick and the research happening at Cary to understand the ecology of tick-borne diseases.

Dr. William Schlesinger provides some new ways of examining global biogeochemical cycles and assessing human impact on the cycles of important biogeochemical elements.

Providing ground-truth data for SMAP, a NASA satellite that monitors the amount of water in soil across the entire globe.

For years we have focused on tailpipes and factory smokestacks as the source of global warming gases in the atmosphere. But, recently various analyses have identified agriculture as an important contributor of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide—the big three gases when it comes to human-induced changes in climate.

Dr. John Hartig discusses how strategies like pollution mitigation and habitat rehabilitation are reviving this iconic river.

Last week brought us a report from the United Nations that indicates that the world’s nations are falling far short of the emissions reductions of carbon dioxide that were promised to meet the Paris Climate Accord—let alone the reductions needed to keep the Earth’s average global temperature from rising more than 2 degrees centigrade.