Kara Moses may have never become a biologist if not for a coin toss. The coin, which came up heads and decided Moses' direction in college, has led her on a sinuous path from studying lemurs in captivity to environmental
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November 13, 2011 by Jeremy Hance | No comments
Critically Endangered lemurs disperse seeds, store carbon
Many tropical plants depend on other species to carry their progeny far-and-wide. Scientists are just beginning to unravel this phenomenon, known as seed dispersal, which is instrumental in supporting the diversity and richness of tropical forests. Res...
February 02, 2011 by Jeremy Hance | No comments
From Cambodia to California: the world’s top 10 most threatened forests
Growing populations, expanding agriculture, commodities such as palm oil and paper, logging, urban sprawl, mining, and other human impacts have pushed many of the world's great forests to the brink. Yet scientists, environmentalists, and even some pol...
February 02, 2011 by Jeremy Hance | No comments
From Cambodia to California: the world’s top 10 most threatened forests
Growing populations, expanding agriculture, commodities such as palm oil and paper, logging, urban sprawl, mining, and other human impacts have pushed many of the world's great forests to the brink. Yet scientists, environmentalists, and even some pol...
April 22, 2010 by Jeremy Hance | No comments
World failing on every environmental issue: an op-ed for Earth Day
The biodiversity crisis, the climate crisis, the deforestation crisis: we are living in an age when environmental issues have moved from regional problems to global ones. A generation or two before ours and one might speak of saving the beauty
April 22, 2010 by Jeremy Hance | No comments
World failing on every environmental issue: an op-ed for Earth Day
The biodiversity crisis, the climate crisis, the deforestation crisis: we are living in an age when environmental issues have moved from regional problems to global ones. A generation or two before ours and one might speak of saving the beauty
September 17, 2009 by Jeremy Hance | No comments
Innovative reforestation project threatened by ‘regime change’ in Madagascar, an interview with Rainer Dolch
In Madagascar the TAMS Program (Tetik'asa Mampody Savoka, meaning "the project to bring back the forest") is under threat due to the new government's unwillingness to provide funding. The current government, after gaining power in a coup this year, has...
September 17, 2009 by Jeremy Hance | No comments
Innovative reforestation project threatened by ‘regime change’ in Madagascar, an interview with Rainer Dolch
In Madagascar the TAMS Program (Tetik'asa Mampody Savoka, meaning "the project to bring back the forest") is under threat due to the new government's unwillingness to provide funding. The current government, after gaining power in a coup this year, has...
