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Christopher Thompson

Laudato Si’ called the Catholic community to an ecological conversion, a reorientation of our habits of mind toward a…

Kimberly Van Meter, Assistant Professor Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago

Title: Signatures of Human Impact: Land Use, Legacies and Long-Term…

Title: Nothing to Fear: Environmental Change in the Absence of Large Carnivores.

While often treated as more of an aesthetic or ethical issue, widespread reductions or eradications of large…

Welcome to the Anthropocene. For the first time, fossil fuel-burning humans have become the prime drivers of the planetary climate. We have left behind the relatively stable pattern of natural variability that governed the environment in the Holocene epoch, beginning some 11,700 years ago. How do…

Title: The Nature Conservancy's Aquatic Invasive Species Program, Science Informing Management.

The Laurentian Great Lakes are one of the most heavily invaded freshwater…

The Center for Informatics and Computational Science invites you to attend Jeffrey Shaman’s seminar entitled, “Forecasting the Growth and Spread of Infectious…

Patrick Regan is a professor of Political Science and Peace Studies and the Associate Director of the University of Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative for ND-GAIN,…

Title: Household Preferences for Sea Level Rise Adaptation Plan in Florida.

Abstract: Accumulating evidence indicates that global sea levels have been rising at an accelerating rate. This trend,…