Compromise may be part of a sustainable solution to whale hunting
According to Leah Gerber - founding director of ASU’s Center for Biodiversity Outcomes - a compromise with whaling nations that allows them to legally hunt under regulations and monitoring might break a current stalemate centered on the ethics of killing whales.
Distinguished sustainability scientist awarded prestigious Hull Prize
The International Society for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology has given its top award, the David L. Hull Prize, to Jane Maienschein - ASU Regents' Professor and Distinguished Sustainability Scientist - for her contributions to scholarship, service and interdisciplinarity.
ASU LightWorks commits to brighter future in Ethiopia
With the aim of transforming Ethiopia into a carbon-neutral middle-income country by 2025, ASU LightWorks is one of three institutions to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with AORA Solar to promote the development and advancement of renewable energy technologies in that country through academic cooperation.
Seeing the full picture: save nature, live better
In his essay, "Seeing the full picture: save nature, live better," M. Sanjayan seals the perceived separation between humans and the natural world, demonstrating how conservation is actually in our own enlightened best-interest. Sanjayan's essay is accompanied by a condensed video of his Earth Month Wrigley Lecture.
A Deal with Japan on Whaling?
What are the benefits of striking a deal with Japan on Whaling? CBO Director, Leah Gerber featured Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment guest editorial, critiques the leading arguments. A deal
White House Announces ASU National STEM Collaborative
Congratulations to CBO faculty affiliate and Executive Director of the Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology, Kim Scott! Today the White House announced CGEST's National STEM Collaborative during their Champions
IUCN Announces final consultation on Key Biodiversity Areas Standard
Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are sites that contribute significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity. IUCN' s commitment to development of this standard will help policy makers and practitioners your
City managers trying to reduce emissions should think small
In a recent commentary published in Nature, ASU sustainability scientists Kevin Gurney, Nancy Grimm and Mikhail Chester state that city managers should handle greenhouse gas emissions at a small scale - like a house or road - so as to more easily see and target a city’s “carbon hot spots."
Managing Water for Irrigated Agriculture in the Central Arizona Desert
Farmers in arid central Arizona have always faced a formidable climatic challenge. The region around Phoenix receives a scant fraction of the annual rainfall needed to irrigate traditional crops like
CBO presents panel on Diversity in Conservation Science at ESA 2015
CBO Director Leah Gerber and graduate student affiliate Beth Tellman recently organized a panel entitled “Expanding diversity in the next generation of ecology” at the 100th anniversary of the Ecological Society
USFWS Conservation Career Symposium
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) will host an information session for undergraduate and graduate college students interested in public service careers. This session will focus on students interested
ASU named nation's most innovative school in annual rankings
In its newly-released college rankings for 2016, which compare more than 1,500 institutions on a variety of metrics, U.S. News and World Report placed Arizona State University at the top of its “most innovative schools” list before both Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.