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Understanding changes in reducing pesticide use by farmers: Contribution of the behavioural sciences
Agricultural land is a socio-ecological system in which environmental, economic, agronomic and social components are closely linked and interact in a non-linear and complex way.…
January 23, 2024
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Environmental and geographical factors influence the occurrence and abundance of the southern house mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus, in Hawai‘i
Hawaiian honeycreepers, a group of endemic Hawaiian forest birds, are being threatened by avian malaria, a non-native disease that is driving honeycreepers populations to…
January 23, 2024
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Animal evolution at the ocean’s water-air interface
Innovation is a key to evolutionary success and entrance into novel ecosystems.1 Species that float freely at the ocean’s surface, termed obligate neuston (also called, …
January 23, 2024
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The Dark Side of Ocean Cleanup Technology
Some marine biologists think the trash-collecting machines are harming more ocean organisms than they’re.…
January 23, 2024
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Water Is the New Oil in the Gulf
Raha Hakimdavar is senior advisor to the dean of Georgetown University Qatar and the dean of the Earth Commons Institute. In the arid desert landscapes of the Gulf, where oil has…
January 19, 2024
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How to feed a hot hungry planet
The resilience and innovation of farmers and ranchers may play a key role in reducing global food. …
December 18, 2023
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Study Reveals Bird Distributions are Shifting South – not North – due to Changes in Tropical Precipitation
Changing climatic conditions, specifically rainfall declines on tropical non-breeding grounds, have reshaped migratory birds’ geographic distribution and abundance, according…
December 18, 2023
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Here’s Scientific Proof Your Cat Will Eat Almost Anything
An analysis published today in Nature Communications, led by Auburn University ecologist Christopher Lepczyk, reveals that there’s shockingly little that cats don’t eat.…
December 12, 2023
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$5M gift to endow a faculty chair fuels growth of Earth Commons
Georgetown’s Earth Commons Institute (ECo) received its largest gift to date from an alumna and her husband who live in San Francisco’s Bay Area. The $5 million gift funds a…
December 4, 2023
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Georgetown Launches Undergraduate Degree on the Environment and Sustainability
Starting in spring 2024, first-year students and sophomores can enroll in the core courses of the Joint Environment & Sustainability Program (JESP) and work toward a bachelor of…
December 1, 2023