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CHANS-Net in the New York Times
Published on June 10, 2013
The New York Times explores human and natural systems in a desperate fight for balance in Cambodia. CHANS-Net principal investigator Jianguo "Jack" Liu and member Lewis Incze are quoted. The article, "Of Fish, Monsoons and the Future -... -
Seabird bones reveal changes in open-ocean food chain
Published on May 13, 2013
Remains of endangered Hawaiian petrels -- both ancient and modern -- show how drastically today’s open seas fish menu has changed. A research team, led by Michigan State University and Smithsonian Institution scientists who also are CHANS-Net members... -
The politics of climate change
Published on April 30, 2013
U.S. residents who believe in the scientific consensus on global warming are more likely to support government action to curb emissions, regardless of whether they are Republican or Democrat, according to a study led by a CHANS-Net sociologist. -
Humans passing drug resistance to animals in protected Africa, CHANS-Net researcher says
Published on April 25, 2013
CHANS-Net researchers have discovered that humans are passing antibiotic resistance to wildlife, especially in protected areas where numbers of humans are limited.In the case of banded mongoose in a Botswana study, multidrug resistance among study... -
Outdoor education helps minority students close gap in environmental literacy
Published on March 25, 2013
Environmental education programs that took middle school students outdoors to learn helped minority students close a gap in environmental literacy, according to coupled human and natural systems research from North Carolina State University. -
Protected areas successfully prevent deforestation in Amazon rainforest
Published on March 12, 2013
Strictly protected areas such as national parks and biological reserves have been more effective at reducing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest than so-called sustainable-use areas that allow for controlled resource extraction, CHANS-Net scien... -
CHANS scientists help shed light on key component of China's pollution problem
Published on February 27, 2013
It's no secret that China is faced with some of the world's worst pollution. Until now, however, information on the magnitude, scope and impacts of a major contributor to that pollution -- human-caused nitrogen emissions -- was lacking. -
CHANS-Net scientists discuss resilience of coastal communities at AAAS
Published on February 18, 2013
Hurricane Sandy was a fearsome reminder that coastal communities are highly vulnerable to extreme weather events and environmental variability, and that vulnerability is only expected to increase with climate change. -
The effective collective: Grouping could ensure animals find their way in a changing environment
Published on February 1, 2013
For social animals such as schooling fish, the loss of their numbers to human activity could eventually threaten entire populations, according to research led by a CHANS-Net scientist that shows such animals rely heavily on grouping to effectively... -
SLUCE 2: Spatial Land Use Change and Ecological Effects at the Rural-Urban Interface: Interactions of Exurban Land Management and Carbon Dynamics
Published on January 30, 2013
This project investigates processes that link the dynamics of the land-atmosphere carbon budget in exurban residential areas, which may have regional and global scale implications, preferences for land-cover types and patterns on these lands, ... -
Changing climate – changing behavior: integrating adaptive economic behavior in land-use models
Published on January 30, 2013
Climate change threatens economic development by increasing the probability of severe disasters like Hurricane Katrina, or recent European and Australian flooding. Rising hazard risks affect land-use and economic behavior in land markets causing ... -
Vectors of Change in Oceans and Seas Marine Life, Impact on Economic Sectors (VECTORS)
Published on January 30, 2013
VECTORS aims to improve our understanding of how environmental and man made factors are impacting marine ecosystems now and how they will do so in the future. The project is addressing invasives, outbreaks and changes in fisheries distribution a... -
Global plant diversity hinges on local battles against invasive species
Published on January 24, 2013
In Missouri forests, dense thickets of invasive honeysuckle decrease the light available to other plants, hog the attention of pollinators and offer nutrient-stingy berries to migrating birds. They also release toxins that decrease the germination... -
Analysis of fracking wastewater yields some surprises
Published on January 23, 2013
Hydraulically fractured natural gas wells are producing less wastewater per unit of gas recovered than conventional wells would. But the scale of fracking operations in the Marcellus shale region is so vast that the wastewater it produces threaten... -
Assessing Climate Change Vulnerability through Integrated Social and Ecological Research in Sub-Saharan Africa: The ClimAfrica Project.
Published on January 22, 2013
Africa has been identified as one of the most vulnerable continents to climate variability and change due to, among other factors, its strong dependence on local natural resources and limited adaptive capacity. -
U.S. Forest Service offers webinar on evaluating resilience in fire-prone ecosystems
Published on January 14, 2013
How do people adapt to forest fires?That question underlies the interdisciplinary Forest People Fire (FPF) project and is the focus of the next U.S. Forest Service Landscape Science webinar on Jan. 22 at 1 p.m. EST. -
2013 CHANS Fellowship Call for Applications
Published on December 21, 2012
With support from the National Science Foundation, the International Network of Research on Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS-Net.org) offers CHANS Fellowships each year. -
Two new papers published on interactions between Western religions and indigenous peoples
Published on December 12, 2012
CHANS-Net members Jose Manuel Fragoso, Jeff Luzar, and Kirsten Silvius have two new papers in Human Ecology. Both examine the interactions between varous Western religions and the religions of indigenous peoples. They also examine the implications of... -
As Amazon urbanizes, rural fires burn unchecked
Published on December 11, 2012
Over past decades, many areas of the forested Amazon basin have become a patchwork of farms, pastures and second-growth forest as people have moved in and cleared land -- but now many are moving out, in search of economic opportunities in newly bo... -
Rocks, water, air, space… and humans: an NSF recipe for AGU success
Published on November 26, 2012
The National Science Foundation is suggesting adding a bit of spice to a geophysical scientist’s research recipe of rocks, water, air, space and life: Humans.
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