by Susan Keown | Mar 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
Adrienne Ross Scanlan wrote a review of “Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains” by Bethany Brookshire for the New York Journal of Books. Brookshire explains how cultural perceptions, changes in human society and human philosophy assign negative or positive...
by Susan Keown | Dec 3, 2022 | ScienceWire
A story by new member Michael Crowe (@MichaelReports) for the Sierra Club gives us a look at the invasion of the European green crab into Washington waters, and what local officials are doing to keep “one of the worst invasive species in the world” contained. An...
by Susan Keown | May 2, 2022 | ScienceWire
The notorious Dutch elm disease has ravaged elm trees across the world for more than a century, but some have nevertheless managed to survive. Carolyn Bernhardt (@CarolBernie11) writes for the Minnesota Invasive Terrestrial Plants and Pests Center’s website about the...
by Susan Keown | Nov 5, 2021 | ScienceWire
Julia Rosen’s (@1juliarosen) January 2020 story for The Atlantic about invasive earthworms is featured in the just-released 2021 edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing. Rosen delves into the lives of our neighborhood annelids and lets us all in on a...
by Susan Keown | Oct 5, 2021 | ScienceWire
Carolyn Bernhardt (@CarolBernie11) writes for the University of Minnesota about a project to investigate whether rust fungi can successfully manage two major invasive plant species that came to the state from Europe: glossy buckthorn and reed canarygrass. While some...
