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Synbio Ethics: What the Researchers Think
As synthetic biology emerges into the public sphere, so too does a discussion about the ethical and regulatory questions posed by the field. Because synthetic biology...
Undergraduate Research Makes for Better Science
Improving training in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields is a major priority, crucial to the nation's economy and international competitiveness...
Bonus Episode: Disease-Carrying Ticks and How to Avoid Them
Ticks pose numerous threats to human health and well-being, ranging from the familiar Lyme threat to spotted fever rickettsiosis and even mammalian meat allergies. Fo...
Bridging the Gaps in Global Conservation
To date, the conservation of global biodiversity has relied on a patchwork of international goals and national- and regional-level plans. Hampered by poor planning, ...
One Thing Leads to Another: Causal Chains Link Health, Development, and Conservation
The linkages between environmental health and human well-being are complex and dynamic, and researchers have developed numerous models for describing them. The models...
ASGSR Annual Meeting
In October 2017, through the collaboration of the American Institute of Biological Sciences and the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR), Bio...
Urban Mind: Measuring the Benefits of Nature in Real Time
The positive mental health effects of nature exposure in urban environments are well known, and the literature on the subject is growing fast. However, many previous ...
Specimen Collection, Populations, and Biodiversity Science
The benefits of specimen collection are well known. Natural-history archives are increasingly used by researchers to investigate evolutionary processes, examine the e...
A Waterway Bounces Back following the Passage of the Clean Water Act
Although the aims of environmental legislation are well known, measuring the effects of regulation is often a difficult task. Inadequate data for baseline conditions ...
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Wildlife Trade Management
The illicit wildlife trade is a multi-billion-dollar business that spans the globe. Unfortunately, efforts to control it have often fallen short, and massive numbers...
The Benefits and Pitfalls of Urban Green Spaces
With the rapid expansion of the urban landscape, successfully managing ecosystems in built areas has never been more important. However, our understanding of urban ec...
Damming and Its Effects on Fish
Fish that migrate between freshwater and sea ecosystems play a multitude of ecological roles. In the centuries since Europeans first colonized the Americas, damming a...
The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 2017 Annual Meeting
The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), an American Institute of Biological Sciences member society, fosters research, education, public awareness...
Low Oxygen in Chesapeake Bay
Each year, low oxygen levels, known as hypoxia, strike the deep waters of Chesapeake Bay. Arising from a combination of human-induced and natural factors, low oxygen ...
Understanding River Thermal Landscapes
River temperatures have long been an area of study, but until recently, the field has been hampered by technological constraints. However, a suite of new technologies...
Conservation Endocrinology in a Changing World
As species rapidly adapt to altered landscapes and a warming climate, scientists and stakeholders need new techniques to monitor ecological responses and plan future c...
Episode #23: The Redomestication of Wolves
On landscapes around the world, environmental change is bringing people and large carnivores together—but the union is not without its problems. Human–wildlife confli...
Episode 22: Nature's Mental Health Benefits
Nature's positive impact on mood is easily understood on an intuitive level, but a more fine-grain analysis reveals quantifiable effects with potentially serious impl...
Episode 21: Bright Spots of Resilience to Climate Disturbance
Climate-driven disturbances are having profound impacts on coastal ecosystems, with many crucial habitat-forming species in sharp decline. However, among these degra...
Episode #20: Eucalypts Spotlight Biosecurity Failures
For more than 100 years, eucalypts—woody plants that range in size from shrubs to trees—have been transported from their natural ecosystems in Australia to plantation...
Episode #19: Microbial Biodiversity in the Environment Can Alter Human Health
The science of human microbiomes is advancing at an incredible pace. With each passing day, more is known about the vast suite of microorganisms that inhabit human bo...
Episode #18: Reservoirs Are a Major Source of Greenhouse Gases
Over 1 million dams exist worldwide. These structures have numerous environmental effects, and there is no shortage of research on the various ecological consequences...
Episode #17: Big Data and Good Science
Scientists have long debated the best methods to achieve sound findings. In recent decades, hypothesis-driven frameworks have been enshrined in textbooks and school c...
Bonus Episode: Bear Behavior and the Recent Montana Grizzly Mauling
Most interactions between humans and bears result in no harm to either party. However, aggressive bears can occasionally pose a serious threat to human well-being, su...
Episode #16: Hardened Shorelines Are a Threat to Ecosystems
The installation of structures to protect against coastal threats, called shoreline hardening, is a common practice worldwide, with many coastal cities having 50% or ...
Episode #15 - Marine Citizen Science: Room for Growth
The burgeoning field of citizen science offers the public an opportunity to participate directly in research and data analysis—and it offers scientists access to robu...
Episode 14: Hydroelectric Dams Kill Insects, Wreak Havoc with Food Webs
Hydropower dams generate more energy than all other renewable sources combined. However, they can also produce dire environmental consequences, including the devastat...
Gene Drive Technology: Where is the Future? (Bonus Episode)
Gene drives have the potential to revolutionize approaches to major public health, conservation, and agricultural problems. For instance, gene drives might one day p...
Episode #13: Landscape Ecology and its Role in Policymaking
The world faces unprecedented environmental transformation. Successfully managing and adapting to a rapidly changing Earth requires the swift action of well-informed ...
Episode #12: Current Methods Cannot Predict Damage to Coral Reefs
The potentially devastating effects of ocean acidification on coral reefs are well known, but the methods used to evaluate the threats are often focused on individual...
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