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Economist and geographer Rachael Garrett pictured in Brazil where she is helping to stop deforestation while helping farmers and ranchers thrive 03.05.2018

Farmers & Forests

Lonchura castaneothorax and Lonchura grandis species of Finches from New Guinea standing on a branch 02.12.2018

Birds of a Feather

Portrait of Boston University faculty Pamela Templer, Lucy Hutyra, and Jonathan Levy 12.20.2017

BU Scientists Get $3 Million NSF Research Traineeship Grant

Yanomami women's leaders Floriza da Cruz Pinto and Maria de Jesus Lima, speak at BU Hillel about struggles over indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon. 12.19.2017

Yanomami Women Speak of Amazon Struggles

Harvard Forest in Petersham, Mass., is a more than 3,700-acre ecological research area where scientists have been carrying out experiments since 1907. Photo by Mark Friedl and Minkyu Moon 12.14.2017

CAS Researchers Working to Predict Future Climate Change

Massive crack in Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctica 07.17.2017

What Antarctica’s Massive Iceberg Could Mean for the Future

Ecologists Tempest McCabe and Michael Dietze develop computational tools to study the complex interactions between plants, animals, and climate, such as how climate change could effect tick-borne disease 07.06.2017

Fighting Tick-Borne Disease with Computer Science

Mario J. Molina, Nobel Prize in Chemistry Winner, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of California San Diego 05.17.2017

Nobel Winner Mario Molina Is Baccalaureate Speaker

Peter Busher display runs from fur to fossils in his College of General Studies officeGallery: 05.10.2017

Office Artifacts: Peter Busher

Brian Woerner is equally at home offering a tasting at Follow The Honey in Cambridge or working with locals in Tanzania to help produce a sustainable supply of organic honey. 05.01.2017

A Global Taste of Honey for Questrom Grad Student

Photo of Lucy Hutyra and Andrew Reinmann in the forest 03.21.2017

Good News and Bad News about Forest Fragmentation

Donald Trump discusses the Federal budget in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. OMB director Mick Mulvaney sits to the President's right and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin sits to his left. 03.21.2017

BU Faculty Looks Warily at Trump’s Proposed Budget

Jennifer Talbot, assistant professor of biology at Boston University College of Arts & SciencesVideo: 11.17.2016

Why Fungi Rule the World

Slash and burn deforestation in Colombia 11.14.2016

Satellite Images Map Deforestation

Jennifer Soukup (CAS’18) in her scuba gear in the water looking at a field guide 10.27.2016

One Class, One Day: Scientific Diving

Squirrel gnawing on a chicken bone 08.30.2016

Toothy Squirrels Could Confuse Crime Scenes

Pheidole dentata minor worker ants 07.11.2016

Ants Don’t Get Alzheimer’s

Richard Primack at Walden Pond 06.28.2016

Tracing Water Levels at Walden Pond

Aedes aegypti mosquito 02.03.2016

Zika: The Next Pandemic

Coral growing on the roots of Mangrove trees in Belize 09.25.2015

BU Students Discover Corals in Unlikely Place

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