Hickory Corners, MI—The 2018 Farm Bill cleared the way for the large-scale growing of industrial hemp. While widespread production won't be possible until the 2020 growing season, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Department ... Read More
New book chronicles researcher’s quest for the world’s rarest butterflies
Conservation biologist Nick Haddad didn't set out to study rare butterflies. His undergraduate studies didn't focus on butterflies at all. Yet the plight of the St. Francis' Satyr, a butterfly so scarce that it's found in artillery ranges ... Read More
Pharmaceutical pollution concentrate in stream insects, found to move up the food chain
A new collaborative study is the first to show that pharmaceutical pollution in waterways are passed within the food chain when the contaminated insects are eaten by predators. KBS Professor and Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Ecosystem ... Read More
The carbon footprint of irrigation
A paper by former KBS graduate student Bonnie McGill, along with Steve Hamilton, Neville Millar, and G. Philip (Phil) Robertson, was recently published in Global Change Biology. The study focused on how irrigation affects greenhouse ... Read More
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