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If you are concerned by climate change or species extinctions, or are fascinated by nature and our planet, consider studies in biology, Earth and environmental sciences or related policy. Click through the panels below to explore your options.
A&S scholar, Mariaelena Huambachano, travels the world gathering and sharing research on the wisdom of “Traditional Ecological Knowledge”.
Researchers used chemicals from preserved plant matter to pinpoint the causes for past rainfall changes and drought in southwest Africa, with implications for the future.
Researchers find that warming trends will cause major disturbances of networks of fungi potentially harming forest resilience.
Sophie Hernandez ’22 combines biology with environment, sustainability and policy to help tackle climate change.
Researchers at Syracuse University and Texas A&M use computer modeling to find out the sources of salinization and alkalinization in U.S. watersheds.
Sophie Hernandez ’22 combines biology with environment, sustainability and policy to help tackle climate change.
Whale mothers choose nursery sites in shallow waters where predators cannot “eavesdrop” on communication between a mother and her young.
In 1948, Professor James Hope Birnie became Syracuse University’s first African American faculty member in biology.
A new USDA grant funds Mark Ritchie’s research exploring how more ranchers could raise climate-friendly beef.
Thonis Family Professor Tripti Bhattacharya is among an international team of researchers whose study was published in Nature Communications.
While the Netflix movie Don’t Look Up has highlighted the potential of an asteroid impact on Earth, new research sheds light on how the Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago resulted in extinction of 75 percent of animals, including the dinosaurs.