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Jun 3, 2023

Addressing Expanding Concerns Over Forest Carbon Credits Key To Mitigation Success

CIFOR Forest News
Erin Sills, a senior associate with CIFOR-ICRAF, who is also with North Carolina State University, noted that impact evaluation and accounting systems for carbon credits serve different purposes. However, she added, findings and methods from impact evaluation should be used to design accounting systems that “maximize the incentives to maximize reductions in deforestation.”

Jun 2, 2023

Whitney Knollenberg Named to Travel and Tourism Research Association Board

Whitney Knollenberg, an associate professor of parks, recreation and tourism management at NC State, will serve on the board for three years.

May 31, 2023

Out of the Frying Pan, Onto the Farm

Sierra Magazine
When coyotes and bobcats want to avoid large carnivores, they often head toward human settlement, where they end up dead three times more often than mesopredators who stick to the wilderness, according to a new study published in Science. The increased deaths might not be impacting the populations of those animals, said Roland Kays, an ecologist at NC State University.

May 29, 2023

Antarctica Cruises Are More Popular Than Ever. Experts Say They Need More Regulations

NPR
NC State professor Yu-Fai Leung says some penguin colonies seem resilient and aren't greatly disturbed by tourist groups, but his research shows, when penguins are nesting, chicks are vulnerable to predators and the elements, and visitors can be a dangerous distraction.

May 25, 2023

Triad’s Wildfire Risk Rising Fastest in Eastern US, Report Says

Winston-Salem Journal
The fire risk for the state’s residents is expanding along with the population because there is little control over where people go, explained Robert Scheller, a professor of landscape ecology at NC State University who researches climate adaption in forestry.

May 25, 2023

Environmental Sciences Student Presents on the Importance of Pet Waste Collection at EarthFest

Gillian Abrams recently presented an infographic highlighting the importance of collecting pet waste at the 2023 Apex EarthFest.

May 22, 2023

Agricultural Experts Warn of Spotted Lanternflies

WITN
“This is an insect that people love to hate,” said Kelly Oten, an assistant professor and extension specialist at NC State.

May 11, 2023

Suzano Scholarship Supports Paper Science Students

Suzano has endowed a $50,000 scholarship for paper science and engineering students who are first-generation, from an underserved population, or who demonstrate a financial need. 

May 9, 2023

New Research Could Lead to More Sustainable, Efficient Design of Cellulose-based Products

To find better ways to process cellulose, NC State researchers are working to understand its most fundamental interactions — for example, with water.

May 8, 2023

Can Asheville Learn To Live With Bears?

The Assembly
Bear encounters in Asheville, from a few hundred in the early aughts to more than 1,500 these past few years, have become so commonplace as to seem “a bit like a bear safari,” joked Jennifer Strules, a Ph.D. student at NC State studying the city’s urban bear population.