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Dr Meredith Gore's research highlighted in Nature Sustainability

Published on August 15, 2019
Dr. Gore and co-authors recently published an article in Nature Sustainability titled "Transnational environmental crime threatens sustainable development"
Tariffs lead to creative supply chains

Published on August 5, 2019
MSU scholars apply a new, more holistic way to examine global agricultural trade to better understand what’s going on when a country as enormous as China develops a big appetite for soybeans.
MSU and EPA researchers examine nutrients and aquatic plants in variety of water bodies

Published on July 15, 2019
A team of scientists from Michigan State University and the Environmental Protection Agency examined patterns of nutrients and aquatic plants in lakes, wetlands and streams. A paper on the project was published in the journal Ecological Applications.
Feeling the burn: Wildfires increasingly threaten US lakes

Published on July 15, 2019
According to a team of scientists led by Ian McCullough, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University, U.S. lakes are facing a growing threat: wildfires.
MSU researchers receive Chandler-Misener Award

Published on June 14, 2019
Three MSU researchers from the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife are part of a team that has won the Chandler-Misener Award.
Scientists defend headwater protections

Published on May 30, 2019
Scientists, including MSU's Dana Infante, rally to put science back at the forefront of the nation's revised protections of streams and their valuable ecosystems.
Rajendra Bird Sanctuary inspires creation of new undergraduate course

Published on May 23, 2019
A new undergraduate course in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife explored the use of art as a way to communicate science, with a focus on promoting the Rachana Rajendra Neotropical Migrant Bird Sanctuary.
Study scrutinizes global tourism’s push and pull

Published on May 21, 2019
Tourists have become international jetsetters, bringing the promise of prosperity, threats to the nature they come to experience and lots of questions about how to strike a balance. The key: What drives tourism?
CANR names new leader of international programs

Published on May 20, 2019
Karim Maredia has been named a senior global scholar and the director of agriculture and natural resources international programs in the MSU College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
IMPACT: Liu, Viña contributors to UN sustainability report

Published on May 9, 2019
Two MSU sustainability scientists contributed to a landmark United Nations report which finds an unprecedented biodiversity loss, and calls for transformative changes to balance nature conservation and economic development.
Grading conservation: Which reserves defend forests?

Published on May 7, 2019
Lands that shelter forests have value often readily tallied by developers, but until now it’s been more difficult to prove the success of protecting those forested lands in pursuit of sustainability. That can put conservationists on the defense.
Diving deep into water and energy trade-offs

Published on April 30, 2019
Two papers by Michigan State University (MSU) scientists begin challenging a more simplistic, input/output view of natural resources in favor of a way that better reflected how the world really works.
CANR recognizes faculty and academic promotions

Published on April 19, 2019
The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources annually recognizes faculty and academic promotions.
MSU awarded Big Cats Initiative grant from National Geographic

Published on April 15, 2019
The National Geographic Big Cats Initiative has awarded a grant for lion research and conservation to MSU's Snares to Wares Initiative in Uganda.
MSU, Great Lakes Fishery Commission name research network director

Published on April 4, 2019
Christopher Vandergoot, currently a research scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey, will become the new director of the Great Lakes Acoustic Telemetry Observation System (GLATOS).