Rising average temperatures and increasingly frequent and intense heat waves and events put urban communities in a position of extreme vulnerability. This makes the relatively new field of thermal inequity all the more...
Recent research documents climate-induced changes in the algal communities of West Greenland lakes; however, less is known about the response of zooplankton to climate change effects in this region. Zooplankton are...
This study looks at the food environment of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. It is specifically focused on food access and food preferences, and the relationships between a person’s educational background, household income, and...
Ecological literacy measures a person’s knowledge of ecological systems, care for their immediate and global environment, and level of action to reduce his or her personal and communal impact on the environment. This study...
Inland waters are particularly sensitive to environmental changes and a growing body of research points to lakes as sentinels, integrators, and regulators of large-scale stressors such as climate change (Carpenter et al. 2007,...