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  2. Reforestation Hubs, ‘Coming Soon’ to a City Near You

    Cambium Carbon, an initiative founded by YSE students to combat climate change and revitalize urban communities by reimagining the urban tree lifecycle, has earned a $200,000 Natural Climate Solution Accelerator Grant from The Nature Conservancy.

  5. A New Line of Defense For Wild Salmon Populations

    Guido Rahr Pacific Salmon
    The 20th century was not kind to Pacific salmon. Dams on rivers throughout Washington and Oregon blocked fish from their spawning grounds, agriculture turned rivers like California’s San Joaquin into muddy trickles, and mismanaged fisheries across the Pacific Rim harvested salmon at unsustainable rates. To compensate for the resultant declines, hatcheries released billions of fish into rivers throughout the Northwest

  6. Healing Western Landscapes From Conservation’s ‘Radical Center’

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    avery anderson profile Avery Anderson Sponholtz
    When Avery Anderson Sponholtz ’07 M.E.M. arrived in New Mexico for a summer internship with the Quivira Coalition in 2007, her first thought was that she might as well have gone to work on the moon. The parched land was riven by dry creek beds and brushed with only a sparse patina of grass. Scrubby desert willows and piñon pines

  9. Conservation Through Cocktails

    Are you ready for a jujube and hawthorn martini? A new company created by a group of ethnobotanists, including Ashley DuVal ’10 M.E.Sc., thinks so.

  10. Pioneering Scientist Bridges Research and Policy to Create a More Sustainable Future

    Over the past four decades, Jerry Melillo '72 M.F.S., '77 Ph.D., has established himself as one of the world's preeminent scientists, expanding our understanding of the how terrestrial ecosystems respond to climate change. Now, the real challenge, he says, is for scientists to make their research understandable and useful to decision makers. 

  11. Shaping a New Kind of Conservation

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    In the late 1980s, the fast food giant McDonald’s was targeted by some critics who charged that the company was stripping Central America of its rainforests in order raise beef for its burgers.
     
    At the time, the company was working with a relatively new group called Conservation International (CI) — co-founded by Peter Seligmann ’74 M.F.S. — which aimed

  14. Outgoing Connecticut DEEP Commissioner Comes Back to F&ES

    Robert Klee, who spent nearly a decade in the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) — becoming commissioner in 2015 — this semester will return to F&ES, where he earned his master's degree and Ph.D.

  15. On the Front Lines of Justice: Strategies To Support Embattled Local Activists

    Across the world indigenous leaders have been targeted with violence and imprisonment for defending their homes and local resources. In an op-ed, Peter Kostishack ’00 M.E.Sc., whose organization supports these individuals and groups, describes strategies urgently needed to protect their homes, their freedom, and their ways of life.