The local food movement is an approach to lowering the ecological footprints of our food supply. However, a main bottleneck in making local foods mainstream is ensuring that consumers know ...
With a rapidly increasing population and rising resource demands, Beijing has faced a water crisis for over a decade. Roughly 70% of Beijing’s drinking water comes from the Miyun Reservoir. ...
In 2001 one of the rarest birds in SE Asia, the Giant Ibis, was photographed by a camera trap in Cambodia. Its existence had not been confirmed in over 50 ...
Medicinal plants are integral components of health care systems throughout the world. The use of medicinal plants requires sophisticated knowledge about their use and conservation. This case study focuses on ...
Indigenous peoples living in high Arctic environments have developed sophisticated ecological and social relationships with the animals, plants, and inanimate objects that define their complex and dynamic habitat. These relations ...
Over the last fifty years, older industrial cities throughout the Northeastern and Midwestern United States have experienced dramatic economic decline and outward migration. To counter this narrative of decline and ...