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Dr. Ralph D. Nyland was the recipient of the 2017 Barrington Moore Memorial Award from the Society of American Foresters (SAF).

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Work to restore the endangered Chittenango ovate amber snail, found only in one location inside a Central New York state park, continued this month with the release of tagged adult snails raised in a laboratory at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

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In the megacities that are home to nearly 10 percent of the world’s 7.5 billion people, trees provide each city with more than $500 million each year in services that make urban environments cleaner, more affordable and more pleasant places to live.

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High water on Lake Ontario, urbanization of the New Jersey shore and a growing predator population are among the challenges facing one of America’s iconic shorebirds and the conservationists determined to restore the bird’s population.

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A spider and an ant with names drawn from popular books, a pink katydid and an omnivorous rat made ESF's list of the Top 10 New Species for 2017. Also listed: a freshwater stingray, a bush tomato that appears to “bleed,” a devilish-looking orchid, a millipede with more than 400 legs, an amphibious centipede and a marine worm.

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The College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) will announce the Top 10 New Species for 2017 this month. News about the Top 10 New Species will be distributed in an embargoed news release Thursday, May 18. The embargo will lift at 6 a.m. EDT Tuesday, May 23.

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More than 1,100 Native American and Indigenous scientists, scholars and allies worldwide have endorsed the March for Science that will be held in more than 500 locations around the world this Saturday.

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The College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, N.Y., has become a designated pollinator-friendly campus by agreeing to avoid the use of bee-toxic pesticides.

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Scores of American chestnut seedlings growing in upstate New York are the vanguard in the restoration of what was once the most dominant tree in the eastern forests. The trees carry one gene, added by scientists, that makes them capable of withstanding the invasive blight that wiped out billions of their ancestors a century ago.

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A study published in the journal PLOS ONE says that between 1990 and 2000, the average distance from any point in the United States to the nearest forest increased by 14 percent. The distance can present challenges for wildlife and have broad effects on ecosystems.

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Caspian tigers, some of the largest cats that ever lived, roamed through much of Central Asia before they were designated as extinct in the middle of the 20th century. But there is a chance that tigers — using a subspecies that is nearly identical, genetically, to the Caspian — could be restored to Central Asia.

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Dr. Christopher T. Nomura, a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry, has been appointed vice president for research at the college. Research at ESF includes aquatic ecosystems, bioenergy, biotechnology, biodiversity, ecology, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, remote sensing, wildlife disease prevention and many other subjects.

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A scientist at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry sought a humane way to end the lives of snails in a laboratory. She found a dip in a few ounces of beer or a 5 percent ethyl alcohol solution sedates the snails. Then they don’t exhibit signs of physical distress during a terminal dunk in 95 percent ethyl alcohol.

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A chemical compound - new to science and never before identified - is being investigated by a graduate student who is working to replicate it so it can be tested as a weapon in the battle against disease-transmitting mosquitoes.

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Fish species that are both economically and ecologically important in South America live mysterious lives. A new study reports on the use of chemical analysis of ear-stones or “otoliths” as a way to tease out a fish’s life story, potentially revealing its migratory routes and the environments it encountered in its travels.

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A hominin in the same genus as humans and an ape nicknamed “Laia” are among the discoveries identified by the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry as the Top 10 New Species for 2016. Also on the list are a giant Galapagos tortoise, a seadragon, an anglerfish, three invertebrates, a carnivorous sundew and a small tree.

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The SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) will announce the Top 10 New Species for 2016 this month.

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Millions of native orchids are flourishing on the site of a former iron mine in New York's Adirondacks, suggesting that former industrial sites – typically regarded as blighted landscapes — have untapped value in ecological restoration efforts.

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To celebrate Earth Week, students at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) in Syracuse, New York, were asked to share their favorite green-living life hacks.

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Rising temperatures worldwide are changing not only weather systems, but — just as importantly — the distribution of water around the globe, according to a study published today (March 14, 2016) in the journal, “Scientific Reports.”

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To celebrate Valentine’s Day, students at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry were asked what they love about the Earth.

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Scientists have launched an expedition to a remote volcano in the Galapagos Islands to search out rare giant tortoises, some of which were found to carry the genes of two species thought, until recently, to be extinct.

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A research team working in the Galapagos Archipelago has discovered there are two species of giant tortoises — not just one, as had been long believed — living on the island of Santa Cruz in the center of the Galapagos Archipelago.

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The iconic sugar maple, one of the most economically and ecologically important trees in the eastern United States and Canada, shows signs of being in a significant decline, according to research results published today (Oct. 21, 2015) in the open-access journal “Ecosphere.”

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Research into the lives – and deaths – of young rusty blackbirds could help scientists learn more about the complex connections between human activities and the well-being of rapidly declining species, according to a study published today (Oct. 7, 2015) in the journal, “The Condor: Ornithological Applications.”

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The endangered Chittenango ovate amber snail, found only in one location alongside a Central New York waterfall, has achieved a step crucial to its recovery: captive breeding in a laboratory at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

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A group of New York City high school students, most with little experience outside their low-income neighborhoods and a narrow view of the natural world, will get a new look at nature this month when they spend a week doing hands-on environmental science 250 miles from home in Central New York.

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A cartwheeling spider, a bird-like dinosaur and a fish that wriggles around on the sea floor to create a circular nesting site are among the species identified by the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry as the Top 10 New Species for 2015.

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The SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry will announce the Top 10 New Species for 2015 this month. News about the Top 10 New Species will be distributed in an embargoed news release Monday, May 18. The embargo will lift at 6 a.m. EDT Thursday, May 21.

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Scores of young transgenic American chestnut trees developed at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) will take root this spring across New York state, representing one more step in the restoration of a once-dominant species that has virtually vanished from the landscape.

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Earth Day is so important at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) that one day isn't enough to celebrate. It requires a full week and includes a music video to help people put the event in proper perspective and remember where all their “stuff” comes from.

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The faculty at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry was asked, “What is the world’s biggest environmental problem?” Their answers focused on population growth, humans’ inability to grasp the challenges we face and the lack of a well-informed, well-coordinated effort to address those challenges.

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The environmental leaders of tomorrow have big plans for what they hope to experience.

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Researchers at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) have developed a county-by-county map of the United States’ “lower 48” that tells a story of land cover and development across the nation, and could provide a framework for planners and policy makers as they consider future development.

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Scientists at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) are growing the first American chestnut trees that can withstand the blight that virtually eliminated the tree from the eastern United States.

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A population of endangered giant tortoises has recovered on the Galapagos island of Española, a finding described as “a true story of success and hope in conservation” by the lead author of a published study.

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A group of leading environmental scientists and policy experts will gather Sept. 11 at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) to discuss a New American Environmentalism.

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Hundreds of scientists, students and members of the public will gather along the shores of Onondaga Lake in Syracuse Sept. 12 and 13 to inventory and identify every species of plant and animal that can be found in 24 hours.

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An international committee selected the top 10 from among the approximately 18,000 new species named during the previous year.

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The International Institute for Species Exploration (IISE) at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) will announce the Top 10 New Species for 2014 this month.

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The biggest impediments to widespread adoption of green construction practices are the cost — either real or imagined — and a lack of understanding about what can be done, according to attendees at the New York State Green Building Conference.

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The SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry introduces a music video to focus on our planet.

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The Winter Olympics in Sochi are focusing attention on the appealing, but endangered, snow leopard.

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Dr. William A. Powell, a professor at SUNY-ESF, has been named 2013 Forest Biotechnologist of the Year by the Institute of Forest Biotechnology. He is a leader in the effort to restore the American chestnut tree.

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A new species of the giant fish arapaima has been discovered from the Amazon, raising questions about what other species remain to be found and highlighting the potential for ecological problems when animals are relocated from their native habitats.

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Rapid sharing of information among scientists has exciting potential for research but it also highlights the need to protect the confidentiality of human subjects and the well-being of endangered species, according to a new paper.

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As universities strive to prove economic value to the community, a team at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in the Salt City is accomplishing just that with the new testing lab called SALTS.

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The combined heat-and-power system within the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s Gateway Center uses biomass pellets and natural gas to provide the campus with 65 percent of its heating needs and 20 percent of its electrical power.

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Concerns about climate change topped a random sampling of this fall’s incoming class of approximately 290 students at SUNY-ESF.

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A gleaming wooden Adirondack guide boat, made from pine and cherry, and sporting original cane seats and graceful oars along with a history that dates to Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency, is again gliding through the waters of the Central Adirondacks where it was crafted at the turn of the 20th century. The Beaver returned to Newcomb this summer after an absence of more than 70 years.