Environmental Studies
- Joanna Lambert’s research in evolutionary biology carries lessons for coexisting with coyotes, COVID-19 and each other.
- Researchers have found that a whopping one-third of the fertilizer applied to grow corn in the U.S. each year simply compensates for the ongoing loss of soil fertility, costing farmers a half-billion dollars.
- Stronger Antarctic leadership is urgently needed to safeguard the Southern Ocean—and beyond.Two-thirds of the world’s oceans fall outside national jurisdictions – they belong to no one and everyone.These international waters, known as the high
- researcher finds that connecting with people in nature eases loneliness, anxiety.
- Sharon Collinge, professor of environmental studies at , also directs the Earth Leadership Program.
- Study led by researcher is first to tally ‘forest proximate’ humans on earth; numbers, refined terminology may improve focus of conservation and development.
- alum, now employed by NREL, discusses the importance of his interdisciplinary background for his career.
- In this episode of Where You Are, Beth Osnes and Max Boykoff discuss the power of humor to start a productive conversation about climate change.
- New grant supports interdisciplinary research on "the critical zone” and the future of Western waterThree faculty are principal investigators on a new five-year, $6.9 million National Science Foundation grant to study the “critical zone”—from Earth’s bedrock to tree canopy top—in the American West.
- New research identifies fertilizer and pesticide applications to croplands as the largest source of sulfur in the environment—up to 10 times higher than the peak sulfur load seen in the second half of the 20th century, during the days of acid rain