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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) will announce the Top 10 New Species for 2016 this month.
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.
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.
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.”
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, students at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry were asked what they love about the Earth.
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.
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.
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.”
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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