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Your Nose Knows Evolution – Do You?
Olfaction is one of the least understood senses but has played a vital role in the evolution of vertebrates. Basic survival behaviors such as foraging, communicating, recalling memory, and reproduction are often dependent on a protruding-facial structure that we too often ignore.
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Summer Ecosystem Experiences for Undergraduates
CERC is now accepting applications for the Summer Ecosystem Experiences for Undergraduates.
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Conservation of Biodiversity in Orquídeas National Park
Researchers from The New York Botanical Garden are working to document the plant life in Las Orquídeas National Park, one of the last remaining prized and unexplored rainforests that borders Columbia’s Pacific coast.
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Ecosystem Services and Corporate Planning
Learn more about CERC’s new course, Ecosystem Services and Corporate Planning, which examines the impacts and dependencies of corporations on our ecosystems.
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Bringing Water to Rural Communities in Brazil
Though Portuguese settlers and Brazilians have lived in the sertão since the 16th century, it has never been an easy place to thrive. The primary reason is water.
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Extinction Exposed – The Giant Panda
Captive breeding and species protection are helping the panda recover, but fewer than two thousand still remain.
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The Male Seahorse – Supermom?
The term, male-pregnancy, may seem to border on oxymoronic, but seahorses will prove to you otherwise.
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Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time
Considered to be the father of wildlife management and conservation and a pioneer of the wilderness system, Aldo Leopold radically influenced the development of environmental ethics and sustainability.
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Executive Courses in Conservation, Sustainability
The Center for Environmental Research and Conservation at Columbia University provides professionals with the knowledge and tools to be effective environmental leaders and decision makers in the 21st century. It is an evening program in which environmental issues are discussed, debated and examined, where participants develop an in-depth understanding of conservation science and practice through…
