State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
For more than a century, ESF has been unique among institutions of higher learning in its singular focus on environmental discovery, learning, and sustainability. We offer the excellence of a small campus education in an atmosphere of big ideas. Located in a transcendent triangle, ESF simultaneously offers life in a top-20 small college city, thousands of acres of living laboratory in the Adirondacks, and easy access to New York City. For those who love the natural world, it doesn’t get any better than this.
Roxanne Razavi, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Hadis Miraly, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and Karin Limburg, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
A new study shows that a time stamp can be put on mercury that accumulates in fish eyes, offering a window into their lifetime exposure.
By the end of October, more than 228,000 Americans who got COVID-19 had died.
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Quentin Wheeler, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Antonio G. Valdecasas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), and Cristina Cánovas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Si nos creemos las representaciones gráficas de la evolución de las especies que muestran carteles, ilustraciones y camisetas podríamos pensar que avanza como un desfile ordenado hacia una meta predeterminada. Pero no es así.
Evolution has no final endpoint in mind.
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Quentin Wheeler, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Antonio G. Valdecasas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), and Cristina Cánovas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
If you go by editorial cartoons and T-shirts, you might have the impression that evolution proceeds as an orderly march toward a preordained finish line. But that’s not right at all.
Perubahan iklim dapat memperparah stres spesies seperti ikan kod Atlantik yang telah terancam akibat penangkapan berlebih.
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Karin Limburg, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Banyak orang mungkin terkejut ketika mengetahui bahwa ikan memiliki telinga, terlebih lagi ketika mengetahui pada beberapa kasus, ikan memiliki indera pendengaran yang tajam.
Climate change could further stress species such as Atlantic cod that already are threatened by overfishing.
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Karin Limburg, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Tiny calcified formations inside fishes’ ears can be used to trace a fish’s life history – and potentially, how climate change has affected its growth and development.
Nearly a year after Hurricane Maria, water is still not restored to all of Puerto Rico.
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Cecilia A. Green, Syracuse University and Farah Nibbs, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Many countries collect and store rainwater for use during drought or dry seasons. But this technique is rarely used in the Caribbean, where hurricanes can leave people without water for months.
Untuk sebuah megapolitan, Tokyo begitu kaya dengan pepohonan.
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Theodore Endreny, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Di dunia yang semakin urban, pohon bisa memberikan perbedaan besar. Sebuah penelitian menemukan bahwa untuk setiap dollar yang diinvestasikan ketika menanam pohon akan memberi keuntungan $2,50
For a megacity, Tokyo is rich in trees.
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Theodore Endreny, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
In an increasingly urban world, trees can make a major difference. One study found that, for every dollar invested in planting, megacities saw a $2.50 return on their investment.
Alexander Weir, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
The global mushroom industry is worth $35 billion yearly and growing. But mushrooms and other fungi play important ecological roles that scientists are still learning about – and some may be endangered.
Plant worker at Gorham Paper & Tissue, Gorham, New Hampshire, 2015.
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Gary M. Scott, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Pulp and paper production is a major industry with a large environmental footprint. Recently, though, paper companies have worked to reduce pollution and promote sustainable forestry and recycling.
Giant tortoise on Pinzon Island, Galapagos.
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James P. Gibbs, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
The Galapagos Islands’ giant tortoises are one of the world’s best examples of evolution. Scientists are pioneering new conservation strategies to save them from extinction and restore their habitat.
A massive fish die-off occurred in Redondo Beach, California in 2011 caused by oxygen-starved fish.
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Quentin Wheeler, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
The presidential candidates should be talking about exploring and cataloguing our biosphere, which holds vital clues for how humanity should navigate the future.
A White House proposal to tax crude oil would address the U.S.‘s perennially underfunded highway maintenance program.
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Tristan R. Brown, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Obama’s proposal to add $10 tax to crude oil raises the thorny question of whether the U.S. can continue to fund its highway infrastructure with a fuel tax that hasn’t changed since 1993.
Before there was E10, in the 1970s there was ‘gasohol,’ another name for gasoline that had been blended with ethanol.
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William Powell, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Adding a single wheat gene helps the American chestnut withstand a fungal pathogen that nearly wiped these hardwood trees out of the eastern forests they once dominated.
A solar array goes up in New York. Is this the best place to locate solar, given the relatively clean New York state grid?
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Tristan R. Brown, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
The wind and solar industries scored a huge win by getting extended tax credits, but research shows this isn’t the best policy for lowering emissions through renewable energy.
Scott Turner, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
They’re the soil-builders that allow Africa’s arid savannas to be lush grasslands. What do they do inside their huge mounds – and how does a collective mind allow them to do it?
Graduate Student- Environmental Engineering : Sustainable Construction Management, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Professor of Vertebrate Conservation Biology and Director of the Roosevelt Wild Life Station, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry