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Housing and Development Newsletter "The environmental studies, sustainability, and sciences degree emphasizes practitioner preparation and service to new majority and first-generation students," said Terry Ratcliff, Antioch University provost for distance and extended education. "It builds on Antioch's nearly 170-year social justice commitment." Courses in the new degree program include conservation science, culture and ecology, ocean science, and environmental ethics. Optional field studies courses will consist of professional development at environmental conferences, opportunities to engage...
Deforestation ‘stressing animals out’, scientists warn Harry Cockburn © Provided by The Independent Some people may be panicking about our own species’ rampant destruction of the natural world, but we are not the only ones concerned. The animals directly impacted by deforestation appear to be expressing more hormones associated with stress, according to bleak new research by American scientists. Researchers who took samples of hormones which accumulate in fur found rodents and marsupials living in smaller remaining patches of South America’s Atlantic Forest are under...
E-Mail IMAGE: A mouse opossum (Gracilinanus agilis) from a deforested area of the Atlantic Forest, eastern Paraguay. view more Credit: © Noé U. de la Sancha, Field Museum Lots of us are feeling pretty anxious about the destruction of the natural world. It turns out, humans aren't the only ones stressing out--by analyzing hormones that accumulate in fur, researchers found that rodents and marsupials living in smaller patches of South America's Atlantic Forest are under more stress than ones living in more intact forests. "We suspected that organisms in deforested areas would show...