Prof. Ryan Norris was featured in an Aug. 20 TVO story about how climate change affects monarch butterflies. Rising temperatures are causing the insects to fly farther north looking for the ideal climate, but monarchs are migrating into areas where milkweed — a plant that they rely on for food and reproduction — does not …
Prof. Madhur Anand is making international headlines about her new, groundbreaking study. The study found that if the world’s population adhered to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) nutritional guidelines, it would require one giga-hectare of additional land—roughly the size of Canada—under current farming practice. The findings were published in PLOS ONE. The study has been …
Gizmodo interviewed U of G wildfire expert Merritt Turetsky for an Aug. 13 article about a new study that examined the ecological consequences of worsening wildfires. The University of California, Davis-led study showed how larger, hotter fires in the Sierra Nevada are causing lichen — a key component of forest food webs — to diminish. …