Lessons from Europe’s Old-Growth Forests
Walking along a steep ridge, under large hemlock trees, 10 miles outside of Burlington, Vt.—Bill Keeton is worrying about Europe’s remaining old forests. He’s so concerned, in fact, that he and some colleagues wrote a letter to the journal Science—published this May—calling for rapid action to protect them.
A professor of forest ecology and forestry in the Rubenstein School of...
Americans Are Flocking to Wildfire: U.S. Migration Study
Americans are leaving many of the U.S. counties hit hardest by hurricanes and heatwaves—and moving towards dangerous wildfires and warmer temperatures, finds one of the largest studies of U.S. migration and natural hazards.
Nature Helps Mental Health, Research Says—But Only For Rich, White People?
New research shows that a rapidly-growing environmental science field—which measures nature's effects on human well-being—has a diversity problem that threatens its ability to make universal scientific claims.