Research into how nature impacts our well-being has shown that being outside makes us feel better. Images of nature alone have been…
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Biodiversity Urban Forestry In the Schoolyard: Trees and Student Performance
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Biodiversity The Birds That Start Fires: Using Indigenous Ecological Knowledge to Understand Animal Behavior
I don’t remember too much from the eighties–other than Nintendo, Sonic, and how cool the Ghostbusters were. But I do clearly remember…
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Biodiversity The most talked about research of 2017
While citations to academic papers are easy to track (see Google Scholar, World of Science), it’s quite informative to see what research…
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Conservation Fungal Disease Threatens U.S. Snakes — And Could Be a Global Problem
Over the last few decades, fungal diseases have decimated populations of animals such as amphibians and bats. Now, a new study sounds…
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Conservation Hyenas Among Humans
Increasingly, animals have to share their space with human activities and infrastructure, even in protected nature reserves. Although human activity can often…
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Biodiversity Saving Species from Ourselves
A recent opinion piece in the Washington Post from Dr. Robert Alexander Pyron has created quite the stir in the conservation and…
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Citizen Science Citizen Science: Sonic Kayaks Capture Underwater Sounds and Create Experimental Music
By fitting kayaks with underwater environmental sensors and speakers, a team of researchers has created a tool for citizens and scientists alike…
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Biodiversity Museums Are Strong Partners in Biodiversity Education
I love museums. A lot. And I am not alone. According to the American Alliance of Museums, there are approximately 850 million…
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Conservation Are we playing (or hiking or skiing or climbing) too hard? Recreation, Ecology, and Recreation Ecology
In two consecutive years of my PhD, I spent the weekend before Thanksgiving 300 miles away from my family, fighting with temperature…
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Conservation CRISPR for Conservation? Not So Fast!
Scientists are urging caution in the use of new genetic technologies for conservation purposes. In an article in PLOS Biology, Kevin Esvelt…
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Biodiversity Biodiversity Patterns in Melanesian Coral Reef Fish: New Research with Old Naturalists
Old naturalists are my jam. I dedicated my PhD dissertation to a 19th century botanist who had spent her childhood following Thoreau…
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Biodiversity Spooky Ecology 2017: The Weird and Wonderful
Halloween is the best. The clear, superior holiday to all others. Head and shoulders above the rest. Why not celebrate with a…