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Biodiversity and the Extended Specimen Network
Natural history specimens housed in museums, herbaria, and other research collections are revolutionizing science—largely as a result of growing efforts to digitize s...
Inequality and the Human Right to Food
The importance of human access to adequate food could not be more clear; however, many questions surround the provision of food among and within countries. What obliga...
Half-Earth Preservation with Natura 2000
In recent years, calls to preserve greater swaths of the Earth's land- and seascapes have grown. In particular, numerous conservationists have called for the protecti...
Chromatin Looping: Seeing DNA in 3D
New tools are making it easier to understand not only our genetic code but also the ways that the code's three-dimensional structure contributes to gene expression. ...
Saving Species with Better Monitoring
To conserve species, managers need reliable estimates of their population trends. Samples are gathered over time, but the length of the sampling period is often estab...
Using the Plant Microbiome to Restore Native Grasslands
An appreciation of the crucial role of microbiomes, from those aboard the International Space Station to those living in the human gut, is quickly gaining traction am...
Tracking Aedes aegypti across the Ages
Mosquito-borne diseases have plagued humanity for centuries, and a prolific offender has been Aedes aegypti, commonly known as the "yellow fever mosquito." Despite th...
Scientists Warn that Proposed US–Mexico Border Wall Threatens Biodiversity, Conservation
Amidst increased tensions over the US–Mexico border, a multinational group of over 2500 scientists have endorsed an article cautioning that a hardened barrier may prod...
Big Data is Synergized by Team and Open Science
For some time, "big data" has loomed large as a source of challenges and opportunities for science, but as yet, guidance on how to manage the data deluge has been wa...
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...
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