Ancient seafarers helped shape Arctic ecosystems

www.scientificamerican.com

Humans might have been sailing the sea between Greenland and Canada as long as it’s been unfrozen, archaeological evidence suggests

Fire Fuels Resilience in Florida’s Subtropical Forests

environment.yale.edu

Scientists from the Yale School of the Environment discovered that forests in the Everglades bounce back quickly after fires, often surpassing their previous levels of productivity. The research reaffirms the need to continue prescribed burns in the face of a changing climate.

What If the Economy Was Modeled After Ecology? | Atmos

atmos.earth

By treating economies as living systems, we can build financial frameworks that regenerate rather than exploit.

Drone Footage Reveals How History Became Habitat in the Potomac

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Nearly 100 years ago dozens of ships were abandoned in a shallow bay in the Potomac River. Today plants and animals are thriving on the skeletons of these vessels

Scientists spent 6 years tracking Yellowstone’s great bison migration. What they found is remarkable | Discover Wildlife

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Bison nearly vanished from North America in the late 19th and early 20th century. But conservation efforts in recent decades have seen numbers gradually increase, not least in Yellowstone National Park where a herd of around 5,000 animals now live.These…

Becoming Earth – Robin Wall Kimmerer

emergencemagazine.org

Wandering among the ancient decomposing cedar trees of the Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon, Potawatomi botanist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer wonders what they might teach us about the nature of our own afterlife.

The Cormorant Wars

The Local

The Toronto waterfront is home to the largest colony of cormorants in North America. And now they're spreading—squawking, puking, leaving toxic guano. Inside the fight between residents, conservationists, and governments over the most divisive and persecuted bird on the planet.

Catching the Fire Bug

The New Yorker

Before I left the city for the prairie, I never thought that I might be a pyromaniac. I’d never started a fire outside a hearth, or thrilled at seeing one burning on the landscape.

Leave It to Beavers? Not if You’re a Wolf.

Beavers are influential. By cutting trees and damming streams, these rodents change the world around them, raising water levels and creating habitats for diverse plants, insects, fish and more.

You’ve Got What It Takes to Become a Master Naturalist

Audubon

It didn’t take new birder Ariana Remmel long to realize that to find more birds, it helps to know about the plants they need. So in 2022 Remmel signed up for the Arkansas Master Naturalist program and, sure enough, its courses on botany and ecology made their birding more fruitful.

A Tiny Fish That Fuels an Atlantic Ecosystem Now Fuels Industry Debates

Researchers hoped to find evidence of a healthy new generation of ospreys when they checked 84 nests of the fish-eating bird in mid-June at Mobjack Bay, an inlet at the southern end of the Chesapeake Bay. They found only three young.

How to Queer Ecology: One Goose at a Time

Orion Magazine

I ONCE THOUGHT I KNEW what nature writing was: the pretty, sublime stuff minus the parking lot. The mountain majesty and the soaring eagle and the ancient forest without the human footprint, the humans themselves, the mess. Slowly, fortunately, that definition has fallen flat.

The Greening of the Great Basin

JSTOR Daily

The stark landscapes of the American West have often been used as shorthand for both the imagined freedom of the wild west and dangerous barrenness (see: the recent film Don’t Worry Darling).

The Missing Mammal That May Have Shaped California’s Kelp Forests

Researchers claim that the behavior of a massive extinct herbivore, the Steller’s sea cow, might inform conservation efforts of threatened ecosystems today.