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What if Mother Earth Could Sue for Mistreatment? Endangered Ecuadorian Frogs and the Junin Community Showcase a Groundbreaking Legal Framework

Expanding the Value of Nature

Dead Trees Keep Surprisingly Large Amounts of Carbon Out of Atmosphere: Study

Book review: Adrienne Buller's The Value of a Whale

Casella Commits $1.5 Million to Launch UVM Center for Circular Economy

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03/27/2025

Dead Trees Keep Surprisingly Large Amounts of Carbon Out of Atmosphere: Study

Living trees absorb carbon, aiding climate change mitigation. But what role do dead trees play in...

03/24/2025

Book review: Adrienne Buller's The Value of a Whale

Gund Graduate Fellow Vitoria Cardoso provides a review of the 2024 Eric Zencey Prize for Ecological...

03/11/2025

Casella Commits $1.5 Million to Launch UVM Center for Circular Economy

Building on three decades of collaboration, Casella Waste Systems, Inc. (Casella) (Nasdaq: CWST), a...

02/21/2025

Gund Institute Welcomes New Community Members

This year’s cohort of newly affiliated members includes nine UVM faculty members, seven...

02/19/2025

Hidden consequences: UVM researchers investigate the wider impacts of conservation efforts

Some efforts to preserve or rewild natural habitats are shifting productive landscapes to other...

01/16/2025

Gund Institute Names 2024 Catalyst Award Winners

The Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont has announced a $100,000 Joint...

01/03/2025

Apis Fund Grants To Benefit Pollinators Across Vermont

As farmers across Vermont plan for the season to come, a collaboration of pollinator researchers,...

12/13/2024

Ph.D. Student and Knauss Fellow, Rosie Chapina, Sets Sail on NOAA Expedition

Lake Champlain Sea Grant 2024 Knauss Fellow Rosaura “Rosie” Chapina has spent the past eleven...

12/03/2024

Deforestation Reduces Malaria Bed Nets’ Effectiveness

When a forest is lost to development, some effects are obvious. Stumps and mud puddles across the...

12/01/2024

The Barrett Foundation Provides Engineering Research Pathways in Environmental Stewardship

For more than 20 years, the Barrett Foundation has served as a research catalyst at the University...

11/07/2024

Unraveling the Complexity Behind Bird Population Declines

As bird populations dwindle across the globe, a new study from University of Vermont researchers...

11/06/2024

$8M Grant Supports UVM-McGill ‘Leadership for the Ecozoic’ Graduate Program

The Leadership for the Ecozoic (L4E) program, a partnership between the University of Vermont and...

11/04/2024

Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics Awarded to Adrienne Buller’s ‘The Value of a Whale: On the illusions of green capitalism'

The 2024 Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics, which celebrates outstanding writing on the...

10/24/2024

Planetary Health from the Ground Up: Co-creating a Wellbeing Economy in Vermont and Beyond

Rigo Melgar is a Ph.D. candidate in Ecological Economics in the Rubenstein School of Environment...

10/04/2024

What is Planetary Health?

The planet is alive. This ecstatic skin of the Earth that stretches but a few miles up and down is...

09/23/2024

UVM Awarded $2.7M for National Climate Measurements Center of Excellence

Temperature, precipitation, wind speed—the U.S. government has plenty of ways to measure our...

08/26/2024

Gund Institute for Environment Welcomes New Community Members

The Gund Institute for Environment today announced that 42 new interdisciplinary researchers and...

07/25/2024

Burlington’s Riverside Avenue Faces Ongoing Landslide Risk: UVM Study

At least 20 times in the past 70 years, part of the hill by Burlington’s Riverside Avenue has...

06/12/2024

Modern Seeds Aren’t Ready For Climate Change

Humans have radically altered the evolution of agricultural plants since World War Two, remaking...

06/11/2024

UVM Experts on Vermont’s 2023 Historic Flood

When the catastrophic flooding hit Vermont on July 10, 2023, the University of Vermont community...

05/24/2024

UVM Researchers Help Shape First National Nature Assessment

Taylor Ricketts, Director of UVM’s Gund Institute for Environment, and Rachelle Gould, a...

05/20/2024

‘Know Your Five’ Reveals Vermont’s Top Pollinators

“Save the bees!” is a common bumper sticker tagline, and with pesticides, climate change, and...

04/11/2024

Scientists Use Wearable Technology to Detect Stress Levels During Sleep

What if changes in a person’s stress levels could be detected while they sleep using wearable...

02/26/2024

Deforestation Exacerbates Risk of Malaria for Most-vulnerable Children

Malaria kills more than 600,000 people each year worldwide, and two thirds are children under age...

02/08/2024

Question Everything

Sam Bliss’s forehead twitched in the bright April sun. Until a late afternoon interruption, he...

02/06/2024

Gund Institute Names 2024 Catalyst Award Winners

The Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont today announced a $200,000 Catalyst...

01/24/2024

Using AI, Other Tech to Monitor Companies’ Impacts on Biodiversity

As environmental challenges make daily headlines across the world, tools including AI, Earth...

01/11/2024

Remembering Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne

On January 6, 2024, the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and the entire...

11/21/2023

Eat, Poop, Die: UVM Researcher’s Book Explores How Animals Make Our World

In his new book “Eat, Poop, Die,” UVM wildlife expert Joe Roman explores the fascinating lives...

11/20/2023

How Will Climate Change Impact Snow Sports?

With ski resorts set to open across the U.S., skiers and snowboarders—and the entire winter...

11/15/2023

UVM Climatologist Co-Authors Fifth National Climate Assessment

The Fifth National Climate Assessment is out and Prof. Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, the University of...

11/14/2023

Now Seeking Environmental Writing For $5,000 Zencey Prize

The Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont and the U.S. Society of Ecological...

11/08/2023

UVM Climate Experts Seek Impact at COP28

After a year of unprecedented weather extremes, the upcoming COP28 climate change talks feel more...

10/10/2023

Finding Signals in the Noise:

Imagine a future where you can optimize your health and well-being by knowing roughly how many...

09/28/2023

Saving Tanzania’s Forests Benefits Everyone—But Locals Pay the Price

Protecting forests delivers enormous global economic and climate benefits, but new research shows...

09/26/2023

Global Leaders Convene in Vermont for New Agroecology Summit

The University of Vermont’s new Institute for Agroecology (IfA) held its flagship summit, Seeding...

09/22/2023

How Extreme Weather Impacts Fall Foliage

After a summer of extreme weather—historic rainfall, devastating floods, wildfire smoke—leaf...

09/11/2023

To Cut Global Emissions, Replace Meat and Milk with Plant-Based Alternatives

Replacing 50% of meat and milk products with plant-based alternatives by 2050 can reduce...

09/11/2023

Gund Institute Announces New 2023 Fellows

The Gund Institute for Environment today announced 28 new Gund fellows and affiliates, comprised of...

08/29/2023

UVM Launches Six Innovative Flood Research Projects

In a time of unprecedented rainfall and flooding throughout Vermont in July 2023, the University of...

08/23/2023

Gund Institute Announces 2023 Fellowship Recipients

The Gund Institute for Environment at UVM today announced fellowships and research awards for eight...

08/22/2023

Searching for (Mysid) Shrimp in Lake Champlain

The sun was setting behind the Adirondacks on a clear summer evening and Lake Champlain was flat as...

07/20/2023

Greenland Melted Recently, Shows Higher Risk of Sea Level Rise

A large portion of Greenland was an ice-free tundra landscape—perhaps covered by trees and...

07/14/2023

UVM Team Joins $8.5M National Effort to Bring Earth Data to Decision-Makers

University of Vermont (UVM) researchers have joined a new $8.5M effort by the World Wildlife Fund...

06/15/2023

Gund Institute Seeks Strategic Communications Manager

TheGund Institute for Environmentand the University of Vermont seek outstanding candidates for a...

06/15/2023

Announcing the FSRC PhD Fellows Class of 2023

We are very pleased to announce and feature the 2023 class of Food Systems Research Center (FSRC)...

06/05/2023

COVID-19 Food Support Programs Are Ending. Now What? Research May Hold Answers

As the world begins to emerge from the initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, many emergency...

05/31/2023

UVM Students Champion Nature’s Rights at the U.N.

As world leaders gathered at the United Nations last month, three University of Vermont students...

05/17/2023

Getting Outdoors Reduces Smartphone Use—But Only If You Go Wild

While a visit to the great outdoors is a common prescription for reducing screen use, a pioneering...

05/05/2023

Commentary in Science: Europe’s Old Forests at Risk

Walking along a steep ridge, under large hemlock trees, ten miles outside of Burlington,...

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