What astounded us is the sheer volume of nylon line discarded by fishing boats
Category: faculty
faculty
The ocean is a noisy place
Noise in the sea is of immediate relevance to life in the sea
Organic Fluorine Chemicals
we must depend on federal regulations that prevent the purposeful or inadvertent contaminations of the environment from affecting the health of all of us.
Reconciling the current rise in sea level
Loss of the ice caps on Greenland and Antarctica was associated with a dramatic rise in sea level during past glacial cycles
Trees and the Public Good
Without carbon dioxide uptake by trees, its concentration in the atmosphere would be rising nearly twice as fast as we observe today.
Carbonyl Sulfide
If [carbonyl sulfide shows that] photosynthesis has increased, that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, potentially mitigating climate change.
When Bigger is Better
As the ocean’s stocks of fishes have been depleted under existing policy, some dramatic new changes are needed.
Extinction
We need to preserve the heritage of species on all corners of the Earth.
Earth Day + 49
The studies of DDT suggest that we should be skeptical of new endocrine-like compounds that are offered to improve our daily life.
Bill Schlesinger
agriculture, energy, environmental health, faculty, land use, natural habitat, sustainability
agriculture, energy, environmental health, faculty, land use, natural habitat, sustainability
City Mouse vs. Country Mouse
We will spare nature by living in cities, but for a sustainable world, we will not pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps by living in cities.