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.

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.

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.

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.

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

CBO has partnered with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to join six other Universities (Cornell, Columbia, Princeton, Stanford, University of Pennsylvania and Yale) that offer the prestigious NatureNet Science Fellows Program.

McDowell Sonoran Preserve is looking for posters from researchers and students who have conducted or are conducting ecological, social, geological, or historical research relevant to the greater Phoenix preserve or park system

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

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

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."

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 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