Ecology and Biodiversity

Artificial Intelligence: The Park Rangers of the Anthropocene

March 24, 2017

HUCE Fellow Laura Martin and research team explore the role of artificial intelligence in conservation... Read more about Artificial Intelligence: The Park Rangers of the Anthropocene

Solving the Mystery of the Arctic's Green Ice

March 29, 2017

New model by SEAS research team explains blooms of phytoplankton growing under Arctic sea ice... Read more about Solving the Mystery of the Arctic's Green Ice

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

March 15, 2017

MBA students offer ideas on how companies can negate impacts from a changing environment... Read more about More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

Ecological Systems in the Anthropocene: Christopher B. Barrett

February 22, 2017 — "Poverty Traps, Resilience, and Coupled Human-Natural Systems" with Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University

The Future of Food: Shenggen Fan

February 23, 2017 - "Meeting Future Food Needs: The Global Food System Under Climate Change" with Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)... Read more about The Future of Food: Shenggen Fan

What to Expect from Pruitt's EPA

February 17, 2017

Kennedy School Professor and HUCE faculty associate Robert Stavins sees harsh turn for environmentalists... Read more about What to Expect from Pruitt's EPA

First 100 Days: Narratives of Normalization and Disruption

February 3, 2017

The Program on Science, Technology, and Society (STS) launches a new blog aimed at bringing scholarship into closer conversation with practice, and creating allowances for imagining different futures by critically reflecting on our present moment... Read more about First 100 Days: Narratives of Normalization and Disruption

Drawing the Eye to Extinction

January 31, 2017

Artist's perspective gives HMNH exhibit 'gut level' power... Read more about Drawing the Eye to Extinction

Study Tracks "Memory" of Soil Moisture

January 16, 2017

Global satellite data collected by HUCE Environmental Fellow Kaighin McColl and research team provides new insights for weather, agriculture, and climate... Read more about Study Tracks "Memory" of Soil Moisture

The Climate Change Threat to Food

December 14, 2016

Shifts can affect agriculture, farming in many ways globally, panel says... Read more about The Climate Change Threat to Food

Ecological Systems in the Anthropocene: "Can Conservation Biology Survive the Anthropocene?"

October 27, 2016 - Ecological Systems in the Anthropocene: "Can Conservation Biology Survive the Anthropocene?"... Read more about Ecological Systems in the Anthropocene: "Can Conservation Biology Survive the Anthropocene?"

Science & Democracy: Rachel Kyte

Tuesday, October 18 - "Looking Up: How Coalitions of Bottom-Up Organizations are Driving Action for Sustainable Development"

Rachel Kyte, CEO of Sustainable Energy for All and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General... Read more about Science & Democracy: Rachel Kyte

Approaching the Anthropocene: Perspectives from the humanities and the sciences

May 13, 2016 - "Approaching the Anthropocene: Perspectives from the humanities and the sciences"... Read more about Approaching the Anthropocene: Perspectives from the humanities and the sciences

Ecological Systems in the Anthropocene: Osvaldo Sala

April 21, 2016 — "Novel Climates - Novel Ecosystems: Effects of directional changes in precipitation amount and variability" with Osvaldo Sala, Julie A. Wrigley Professor of Life Sciences, Professor of Sustainability, Arizona State University... Read more about Ecological Systems in the Anthropocene: Osvaldo Sala

Ecological Systems in the Anthropocene: Stephen Jackson

March 30, 2016 - "Ecological novelty, old and new: conservation in a post-normal world" with Stephen Jackson, Director of Southwest Climate Science Center... Read more about Ecological Systems in the Anthropocene: Stephen Jackson