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Bill Schlesinger
September 27, 2021September 27, 2021 Bill Schlesingeragriculture, energy, faculty

Cannabis

Most of the energy used to grow marijuana indoors stems from electricity for high-intensity growth lights.

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Bill Schlesinger
September 13, 2021 Bill Schlesingerfaculty, lakes and streams, marine studies, oceans, plastics, waste

Plastics Everywhere

We have much to do to improve our understanding of the amount and fate of plastics at the Earth’s surface.

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Bill Schlesinger
August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 Bill Schlesingeragriculture, carbon sequestration, environmental policy, environmental politics, faculty

Soil Carbon Sequestration

Suggestions that we can mitigate the impact of fossil fuel combustion by increasing carbon storage in soils are bogus.

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Bill Schlesinger
August 16, 2021October 25, 2021 Bill Schlesingerbiodiversity, conservation, faculty, land use, natural habitat, pesticides

Monarchs

Recent work…has shown that butterflies have declined at a rate of about 1.6% per year during the past 40 years.

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Bill Schlesinger
August 2, 2021August 2, 2021 Bill Schlesingerbiodiversity, conservation, faculty, forests, natural habitat

Arboreal Dimensions of Biodiversity

The shape and volume—not just area—of trees growing in a forest creates an added dimension to the ecological and evolutionary setting.

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Bill Schlesinger
July 19, 2021July 19, 2021 Bill Schlesingerair pollution, environmental health, faculty, toxicology

Demented by what we breathe.

surprising increases in the mortality rates from dementia with increasing levels of air-borne particles.

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Bill Schlesinger
July 6, 2021 Bill Schlesingeragriculture, conservation, environmental health, faculty, food, pesticides, toxicology

Hi-test Pesticides

Don’t let statistics of declining pesticide use fool you

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Bill Schlesinger
June 21, 2021 Bill Schlesingeragriculture, biodiversity, faculty, natural habitat

Costs of invasive species

Managing to reduce the transport and arrival of alien species will not be cheap

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Bill Schlesinger
June 7, 2021June 7, 2021 Bill Schlesingerbiodiversity, climate, faculty

Hot times, summer in the city….

Earliest losses of biodiversity may be found among species in hot climates where some species are pushed beyond their physiological tolerance.

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Bill Schlesinger
May 24, 2021 Bill Schlesingerbiodiversity, conservation, faculty, land use, natural habitat

Wilderness

the communities of plants worldwide are no longer “natural.”

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