Environment | Amanda Womac

Vanishing bees pose big threat to economy

Dave Hackenberg, a beekeeper in Florida, discovered 400 of his over 2,000 beehives had been abandoned during the winter. It wasn’t that the bees were dead and their bodies ...Read More

Bear, tourist interactions change over years

Perhaps the most iconic symbol of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the black bear, or Ursus americanus. A chance to see a bear is one of the primary reasons people ...Read More

Century of Cities

In his landmark 1984 book Biophilia, acclaimed biologist Edward O. Wilson defined the term biophilia as “the urge humans have to affiliate with other forms of life.” ...Read More

Science struggles to save dying coral

Some of the oldest and most diverse ecosystems on the planet are the coral reefs in the earth’s oceans. Home to more than one million species, they play an important part ...Read More

Conservation efforts at work in Tennessee’s waterways

They haven’t spent 73 days in an underwater habitat, but researchers and volunteers with several organizations in Tennessee have spent hundreds of hours snorkeling their ...Read More

Natural Resilience

When an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform occurred in 2010, just over 4 million barrels of crude oil were released into the Gulf of Mexico. Hundreds of ...Read More

New Energy on the Horizon

How can we create effective energy and fuels that are both efficient and better for the environment? Thanks to the Sustainable Energy Education and Research Center (SEERC), ...Read More