EICES’s Director Shahid Naeem co-authored a scientific paper in the journal Nature regarding research on the loss of biodiversity and environmental changes that result. Read a summary of the paper on ...

Rae Wynn-Grant and Robert Muscarella are this year’s GK-12 Fellows, funded through the NSF LEEFS Program, or Learning through Ecology and Environmental Field Studies. LEEFS is a partnership of the ...

Scientists in Denmark recently published a study in the ISME Journal that shows great diversity among bacteria-eating microorganisms called Cercozoa. In four soil samples of half a gram of soil, over ...

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Along with the rise of food labels and certifications such as USDA Organic and Free Range has come a push for reporting the carbon emissions of food on packages. The idea is that in announcing the ...

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In the United States, one of the first songs children learn either at home or in pre-school is “Old McDonald.” In the song, two to six-year-old children remember all the animals on a farm and act out ...

I asked my three-year-old, curly-headed son if he knew where corn came from. “Yes. The store,” he said tilting his head downward, keeping his eyes on mine. I chuckled a bit, reminding myself to stay ...

Shahid Naeem is the Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability’s director. He oversees the development of research science programs that benefit from the combined resources of the ...