Displaying episodes 121 - 150 of 153 in total
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...
Episode #11: How to Save Aggregate-Spawning Fish
Globally declining fish populations are a frequently cited ecological and commercial calamity, but relatively little attention has been paid to the specific threats ...
Episode #10: Nitrogen's Threat to Biodiversity
Habitat destruction and the direct exploitation of species often occupy center stage in discussions of biodiversity perils. However, indirect harms, such as that pos...
Episode #9: Plague-Afflicted Prairie Dogs and Modeling Animal-Borne Disease
Animal-borne diseases have ruled the news cycle recently—from Zika and Ebola to SARS and MERS. However, little is known about the spread of these diseases in their an...
Episode #8: Preventing Midwest Grain Failures
Across the United States, record quantities of corn and soybeans have been harvested in recent years. However, according Dr. David Gustafson of the International Life...
Episode #7: Contact with Nature May Mean More Social Cohesion, Less Crime
Numerous studies have demonstrated the benefits of contact with nature for human well-being. However, despite strong trends toward greater urbanization and declining g...
Bonus Episode: Complex Data Integration
The integration of data from two or more domains is required for addressing many fundamental scientific questions and understanding how to mitigate challenges affectin...
Episode #6: A Successful Intervention Boosts the Gender Diversity of STEM Faculty
Eighty-one percent of US science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) university faculty members are men. The relative dearth of women in the field is a long-reco...
Episode #5: When Tree Planting Hurts Ecosystems
"Forest restoration" is a common conservation theme, often promoted as a means of repairing degraded landscapes and boosting carbon storage. But when the planting area...
Episode #4: Fire in the Amazon
Human-caused fires have the potential to hugely alter tropical forests—and the world at large. In this episode, we talk to Dr. Jennifer Balch, of the University of Col...
Episode #3: Extracellular Vesicles Everywhere
Extracellular vesicles (EVs; article here) are one of the biggest stories in biology. These tiny "packets" are released by cells and constitute a previously misunderst...
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