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Children Prefer Faraway Wildlife to Local Nature
Children in both rural and urban areas prefer faraway animals to local wildlife.
Skyler Price: Citizen Science Sparrow Swap Internship
Have you ever seen a small, dainty, blue-colored bird with a dark tan chest? If so, you have probably seen an Eastern Bluebird, one of the area’s most beautiful native bird species. While bluebirds are known for their distinctive cerulean […]
Can a Hands-on Model Help Forest Stakeholders Fight Tree Disease?
Participants don’t need coding or software expertise to use Tangible Landscape, a 3D model that allows them to try out different approaches for stopping sudden oak death, which has killed millions of trees.
How Sea Level Rise Affects Birds in Coastal Forests
Saltwater intrusion changes coastal vegetation that provides bird habitat. To find out what it means for birds, researchers went to North Carolina’s Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula, compared to the Everglades and Serengeti for its biodiversity.
Jasmine Neverson: Stewart B McKinney National Wildlife Refuge
I guess you never really know what life is going to throw at you. Hi! My name is Jasmine Neverson. I am a junior in Environmental Technology, and this summer I worked at the Norwalk unit of the Stewart B […]
Creating a Climate Roadmap for Chatham County
Environmental Sciences students worked with Chatham County to reduce the county’s climate impact.
Climate Education for Kids Increases Climate Concerns for Parents
A new study finds that teaching children about climate change increases their parents’ concerns about climate change.
FER Professor Wins NSF Grant for Project Studying Agricultural Land Use
Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources Professor, Dr. Erin Sills, was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Coupled Natural and Human Systems Program for her research, “Land-Climate-Water Feedbacks and Farmer Decision-Making in an Agricultural System”. The $1.45 […]
Grad Student Profile – Luis Ibarra
Luis Ibarra is working on a PhD in Forestry and Environmental Resources under the direction of Dr. Gary Hodge in CAMCORE. His interests in forestry stem from a childhood in a forested region of the south of Chile, called Lake […]
Meet Winners of NC State’s 2019 Sustainability Awards
Here are this year’s honorees for outstanding sustainability achievements.