Native North Americans did not make large-scale changes to their environment in coastal New England in the 14,000 years they lived there before the Europeans arrived, a study has found. In recent ...

Bryan Shuman, a professor in UW’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, collects a sediment sample from Green Pond in central Massachusetts. Shuman was part of a study that shows forest adaptation in ...

As a result of historical and current human impacts on natural ecosystems worldwide, most modern landscapes involve an element of cultural influence. In New England, for example, although the ...

New England forests are at a turning point. For the first time in 200 years, forest cover—which peaked at 80 percent of the landscape in 2000—has begun to decline in every New England state. If sprawl ...

On behalf of the Ifield Society and many in the community who treasure this ancient land, I write to ask that Natural England ...