This guest post is by Chris Williams, Senior Vice President of Conservation at American Rivers. We’ve partnered with American Rivers to share the adventure of the Colorado River through the

The School of Life Sciences will offer a new course next spring focused on specimens and specimen-based informatics practices. The new course, "Discovering Biodiversity: Field to Database," is open to

Since graduating from the School of Sustainability in 2012 with a Master of Arts degree, Lucky Sharma has worked with Fortune 500 companies like Apple and US Airways. And though her name may suggest

It’s easy to associate algae as being a nuisance. Noticing slimy green algae building up on the sides of your crystal blue pool might have you rushing to remove it.

Leah Gerber, director of the ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, appeared on Tuesday night’s edition of Horizon on PBS Channel 8 to discuss the work and goals of the center. The center

The Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program at University of Washington (DDCSP@UW) offers 20 freshmen and sophomores the chance to participate in an eight-week immersion course beginning June 2016. The program creates

Published in the journal Sustainability, a paper authored by a team of Decision Center for a Desert City researchers synthesizes the evolution of the interdisciplinary research and boundary organization, which has enhanced adaptive and sustainable governance in the face of complex system dynamics.

A group of high school girls in Mesa Public Schools spent their fall break learning to code in R, a computer language used for statistical analysis. This workshop was the

Recognizing that energy challenges pertain to both technology and people, ASU LightWorks will support six energy-related research projects intended to engage veterans or active-duty military using $1.5 million in seed grants.

In response to a study published in Nature Climate Change that predicts parts of the Persian Gulf will be uninhabitable by the end of this century, sustainability scientist David Hondula points out that conditions in many cities - including Phoenix - already reach extremes that pose a threat to human health and lives.

Leah Gerber, director of the ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, and Anita Hagy Ferguson, project manager of the center, talked with ASU News about the center’s goals and the challenges facing

Recognizing that it cannot save all species threatened with extinction, the Center for Biodiversity Outcomes - directed by sustainability scientist Leah Gerber - focuses its efforts in areas like governance and decision-making so as to guide conservation choices with research-driven data.