Tag: New England

  • Nation & World

    Finding new land-management lessons in old ways

    A new study overturns long-held beliefs about the role humans played in shaping the landscape pre- and post- European colonization.

    4 minutes
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  • Nation & World

    Ernst Badian

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 2, 2014, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Ernst Badian, John Moors Cabot Professor of History, Emeritus, was spread upon the records. From fragmentary biographical information about many individuals, Professor Badian deduced political and institutional patterns that greatly deepened…

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    An invasion of New England

    While new species naturally expand to other places and sometimes disrupt the scene when they arrive, the pace of introduction of invasive species has picked up enormously over the past century and a half, stressing and transforming New England forests.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The little book that could

    Novelist Paul Harding rose from obscurity and rejection to win a Pulitzer Prize for his debut book “Tinkers,” which is derived from his family history.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Rolling back the forest canopy

    A new report led by researchers at the Harvard Forest says New England woodlands have reached a tipping point, declining in all six states for the first time in 150 years. The report calls for conservation of 70 percent of the forestland.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Reservoir system proposed to meet needs

    A former Massachusetts water official is proposing a new network of central Massachusetts reservoirs to meet population-driven demand that he says will outstrip current supplies in the coming decades.

    4 minutes