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Media Highlights

• The story in the trees. By Nina MacLauglin. Boston Globe, February 9, 2018.
• Hemlock Hospice is an elegy for the dying New England hemlock forest. By Renée Loth. Boston Globe, December 11, 2017.
• Climate Scientists Watch Their Words, Hoping to Stave Off Funding Cuts. By Rebecca Hersher. The Two-Way - NPR, November 29, 2017.
• Measuring the Risky Feedback Link Between Soil Carbon and Global Warming. By Steve Curwood. Living on Earth, PRI's Evnironmental News Magazine, November 3, 2017.
• Study: New England Loses 65 Acres of Forest per Day To Development. By Fred Bever. Maine Public Radio, September 19, 2017.
• Region losing 65 acres of forest a day, report finds. By David Abel. Boston Globe, September 20,2017.
• A Love Affair with a Tree: What One Red Oak Can Teach Us About Climate Change. By Joy Horowitz. Los Angeles Review of Books, August 29, 2017.
• New book gives a long, broad view of the Island landscape. By Bill Chaisson. Martha's Vineyard Times, January 17, 2017.
• La Foret de Harvard, laboratoire branche. By Yves Sciama. Le Monde, August 24, 2016.
• The high costs of imported pests. By Alvin Powell. Harvard Gazette, May 11, 2016.
• Forest Pests Cause $2 Billion in Damage in the US Every Year. By Mary B. Griggs. Popular Science, May 10, 2016.
• The 'slow motion crisis' that's facing U.S. forests. By Chris Mooney. The Washington Post, May 10, 2016.
• Damage from invasive forest pests as high as $2b a year, study finds. By David Abel. The Boston Globe, May 5, 2016.
• Climate change may impact maple syrup production. By Christin N. Lazerus. Chicago Tribune, February 19, 2016.
• Tracking the rythym of the seasons. By Andrew Richardson. BBC Two, February 4, 2016.
• EPA Carbon Emissions Plan Could Save Thousands of Lives, Study Finds. By Sabrina a. C. D. Tavernise. New York Times, May 4, 2015.
• The Giant Plants that Eat Meat. By Cat Adams. BBC Earth, April 20, 2015.
• Are Harvard's Dying Hemlocks a Warning for Trees Everywhere?. By Hillary Rosner. National Geographic, April 2, 2015.
• A Web of Sensors Enfolds an Entire Forest to Uncover Clues to Climate Change. By Mark Harris. IEEE Spectrum Magazine, February 26, 2015.
• Taking to the Woods: Students travel to the Harvard Forest for hands-on experience. By Peter Reuell. Harvard Gazette, February 5, 2015.
• The Bloom is on for Maple Syrup. By Joshua A. Krisch. The New York Times, January 5, 2015.
• Study: Maple Syrup Production Declins After A Big Seed Year. By Carrie Healy. New England Public Radio, December 28, 2014.
• The City Is an Ecosystem. By Courtney Humphries. The Boston Globe, November 7, 2014.
• The World Trade Center Ship Gets Its Birthdate. By Jerry Beilinson. The New Yorker, August 7, 2014.
• A Hemlock Farewell. By Laura Levis. Harvard Magazine, July-August 2014.
• Cutting the carbon pollution output. By Staff. Washington Post, June 2, 2014.
• In response to warming, Eastern forests inhaling more carbon dioxide than they're exhaling. By Staff. Climate.gov, May 30, 2014.
• Report: EPA power plant rules may aid health. By Wendy Koch. USA Today, May 27, 2014.
• The Pisgah Forest: Harvard's Living Laboratory. By David Foster. Northern Woodlands, Spring 2014.
• Political borders should not hamper wildlife. By Aaron Ellison. Nature, April 1, 2014.
• Forest Farewell: An ode to an iconic tree. By Robert Sullivan. Orion, March/April 2014.
• Warmth from the woods. By Colin Durrant. Harvard Gazette, January 23, 2014.
• Study: New wave of deforestation poses threat in Mass.. By Heather Goldstone and Jack Rodolico. WGBH and WCAI, December 18, 2013.
• Editorial: Threat to Mass. forests shows need to reform zoning laws. By Globe editorial board. The Boston Globe, December 15, 2013.
• Report: Unchecked development could threaten future of Mass. forests. By Bob Oakes. WBUR, December 11, 2013.
• Wasps infesting, imperiling area's black oaks. By David Abel. The Boston Globe, November 18, 2013.
• Development chips away at Connecticut's forests. By Editorial. Hartford Courant, October 17, 2013.
• Lush and leafy forests will need protection. By Steve Grant. Hartford Courant, October 5, 2013.
• Effects of human impact are long lasting for forests in Northeast U.S.. By John Barrat. Smithsonian Science, September 18, 2013.
• New England sees a return of forests, wildlife. By Colin Nickerson. The Boston Globe, August 31, 2013.
• Some Trees Use Less Water Amid Rising Carbon Dioxide, Paper Says. By Justin Gillis. The New York Times, July 11, 2013.
• Forest winners and losers in a changing climate. By Doug Struck. Boston Globe - Green Blog, June 13, 2013.
• Whitebark Pine Trees: Is their future at risk?. By Dybas and Hart. National Science Foundation, June 10, 2013.
• Revising 1630s Massachusetts: Roberto Mighty's 'First Contact'. By Greg Cook. WBUR, March 27, 2013.
• In a Place for the Dead, Studying a Seemingly Immortal Species. By Hillary Rosner. The New York Times, December 31, 2012.
• Let It Be: Hands-off approach is best for forest recovery after a major storm. By Roberta Kwok. Consrevation Magazine, December 1, 2012.
• Appreciating insects: a local field guide to ants. By Carolyn Johnson. Boston Globe, November 26, 2012.
• Why Do Trees Topple in a Storm?. By Mary Knudson. Scientific American, November 12, 2012.
• America Gone Wild. By Jim Sterba. The Wall Street Journal, November 2, 2012.
• Butterfly enthusiasts "delighted" data being used. By Anne Thomson. NBC Nightly News, September 11, 2012.
• Massachusetts butterfly populations shifting likely due to climate change, study shows. By Jason McLure. Reuters / Huffington Post, August 21, 2012.
• Climate Shifts Mass. Butterfly Species. By Jeremy Fox. The Boston Globe, August 20, 2012.
• The Forests Might Change Us from Our Climate Woes. By Rebecca Greenfield. The Atlantic WIRE, April 9, 2012.
• Report: Mass. Forests May Face 18 Percent Decline. By Steve LeBlanc. The Boston Globe, April 6, 2012.
• Science Behind the News: Allergies. By NBC Learn. NBC Learn, April 6, 2012.
• Ecology explains how the world works. By Sarah Zielinski. Smithsonian Magazine, November 8, 2011.
• With Deaths of Forests, a Loss of Key Climate Protectors. By Justin Gillis. The New York Times, October 1, 2011.
• Threat from Asian beetle expands beyond cities. By David Abel. The Boston Globe, August 29, 2011.
• Forests transition as New England warms. By Doug Struck. The Daily Climate, June 22, 2010.
• In dead Vineyard oaks, a warming warning. By Beth Daley. Boston Globe, Nov. 2, 2009.
• Invasion of the longhorns. By Peter Alsop. Smithsonian, Nov. 2009.
• Pitcher plant's pitch a sweet one. By Elizabeth Pennisi. Science Magazine, May 4, 2009.
• The working forest. By Robert Sullivan. The New York Times, April 16, 2009.
• In a forest's breath, deciphering climate clues. By Dan Charles. NPR's All Things Considered, December 31, 2007.
• Teachers get an "A" in environmental education. By Beth Daley. Boston Globe, May 13, 2008.
• Envisioning an evergreen Massachusetts. By Tom Horton. American Forests, Spring 2008.