Could Agriculture Save US Water Supply?
Population growth and climate change are making water an even more scarce resource. Does agriculture have the power to reduce…
Category: Ecology
STEM Career Q and A with Joe Siegrist
In this STEM Career Q and A, we talk with the lead of Project MartinRoost. Learn about his STEM career…
Project Martin Roost: A Scavenger Hunt in Your Backyard
This is part one of three in a collaboration between SciStarter and Career in STEM, in which writers will spotlight…
Decolonizing Ecology for Socially Just Science
Opinion By Suzanne Xianran Ou (@suzanneou) and Adriana L. Romero-Olivares (@fungi_lover) Science attempts to describe nature at all scales, including…
Monitoring Soil Health through Citizen Science
By Sandra Arango-Caro and Terry Woodford-Thomas MO DIRT, Missourians Doing Impact Research Together, is a program that educates individuals on…
Protect Local Waterways with the EarthEcho Water Challenge
By Sean Russell On March 22, the 2019 EarthEcho Water Challenge began empowering young people and community members around the…
Exploring the Science of Mountain Biodiversity
Mountain ecosystems contain vast biodiversity and species richness, offering opportunities to study mountain biodiversity.
An Evolutionary Approach to Conserving Plant Habitats
By Mackenzie Myers To conserve plant habitats, a traditional approach to biodiversity—species richness, or saving as many species as possible—might…
Book Review: World Without Fish
By Patricia Balbon Day-to-day encounters of fish—at the grocery store, visiting an aquarium—passively reinforce a notion of triviality about aquatic…
Forest Restoration, Not Plantations, Will Curb Warming
Forest restoration efforts are a far more effective strategy for sequestering atmospheric carbon than monoculture plantations.