Sustainability
Worth a Thousand Words: Connecticut’s Coastline Changes
From early hand drawings and aerial photos to today's drone images, a new website tells the story of changes in the Connecticut coastline over the past century.
Initiative Calls for Diversification of Shellfish Industry
The plan embraces the state’s shellfish as a natural resource and recreational harvesting as well as commercial shellfishing.
‘Goldilocks Fires’ Can Enhance Biodiversity in Western Forests
Mixed-severity fires – not too hot, not too cold, but overall just right – in the forests of California’s Sierra Nevada can increase bird biodiversity over time, a study finds.
Study Says the Ocean’s Largest Life is Under Threat of Extinction
Human fishing poses a greater threat than climate change to future ocean life, according to UConn's Andrew Bush and co-authors, in a new study in Science.
How ‘Big Data’ Changed the Science of Ecology
UConn researcher Mike Willig discusses the 'ecological revolution.'
Critical Information Needed in Fight to Save Wildlife
A UConn ecologist headed an international group of biologists calling for a global effort to improve climate change predictions for biodiversity.
New Device Improves Measurement of Water Pollution
UConn scientists are commercializing a technology they developed to more easily measure contaminants in water.
UConn in Sierra Club ‘Cool Schools’ Top 10 – Again
UConn is in the Sierra Club 'Cool Schools' Top 10 for the fifth year running, despite a change in survey methodology.
The Man Who Built Environmentalism
A journalism professor’s new biography explores the reckless life of the Sierra Club’s most influential leader, a father of the environmental movement.
The Road to Native Vegetation in Highway Design
A graduate student is commercializing new software he developed to make roadside native plantings more successful.