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Bradley J. Cardinale named head of Department of Ecosystem Science & Management December 16, 2020 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Bradley J. Cardinale, professor and director of the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan, has been named head of Penn States Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, effective Jan. 4, 2021. Cardinale will succeed David Eissenstat, professor of woody plant physiology. Eissenstat h...

An oil palm front advances on an Indigenous community in Peru Indigenous Shipibo leaders in Peru’s Ucayali region say they live under the threat of attacks from suspected land traffickers who continue to invade their territory. The Indigenous community of Santa Clara de Uchunya says these invasions have been exacerbated by the advancement of oil palm plantations in the Amazonian district of Nueva Requena. In August 2020, an outside group was caught cutting down trees that belong to the commun...

Weve seen a host of Christmas traditions in the Wilmington area. Because of the pandemic, this years Christmas will be harder on many people, whether they have lost loved ones due to COVID-19 or spending time alone to remain safe. With that in mind, heres a look at past holidays in the Port City area via photos to provide some measure of good cheer. Wrightsville Beach: 1940s At the time, there were very few year-round residents in the beach town, but still some kids ready to try out their new ...

These wildfires as a cover for unsustainable practices that put our forest resources at risk, actually make these wildfires worse. >> shannon: jonathan, how do we find common ground? issues like clearing things away, burning off deadwood, taking steps that the state grades would like to see happen. >> the fact that the state has been more interested in clearing its own forests as a sign that thats an opportunity. takes more free market solutions for more ideas from the environmentalists. the mai...