Category: Environmental Studies

Plant Science Tackles the Climate Crisis

Plant Science Tackles the Climate Crisis

Sharon Kingsland— Global climate change is occurring much faster than was anticipated at the start of our century, and is now considered a crisis or emergency. Scientists in many fields… READ MORE

Measurements for a Green World

Measurements for a Green World

Piero Martin— Will measurements save the world? Or, better, our life as humans on this planet? Certainly, they will help. Actually, they are already doing an important job since—much better… READ MORE

War and Herbaria

War and Herbaria

Maura C. Flannery— In October 2022, the National Herbarium of Ukraine in Kiev suffered damage from Russian bombing, and similar destruction has happened to preserved plants collections called herbaria in… READ MORE

Ecocritical Art History on the A&AePortal

Ecocritical Art History on the A&AePortal

Patricia Fidler, Executive Director of the A&AePortal, recently interviewed Alan C. Braddock, Ralph H. Wark Associate Professor of Art History and Environmental Humanities at William & Mary, about his new… READ MORE

New Directions Toward a Clean Energy Future

New Directions Toward a Clean Energy Future

Daniel S. Cohan— After reaffirming the Paris Agreement on his first day in office, President Biden in November 2021 issued a national strategy for achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by… READ MORE

Familiar Stranger

Familiar Stranger

Sumana Roy—  It seems so natural, in dreams and folk tales, that humans should be reborn as trees. On a bus to nowhere, I sat next to a man who… READ MORE

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