Cities are at the edge of climate change
At a recent conference on designing wildlife habitats, you said cities are always warmer than surrounding areas because of the urban heat island effect. Cities are then precursors to climate change. In fact, “cities are at the edge of climate change.” What can cities’ experience with elevated heat levels teach us about best and worst ways to mitigate and adapt to climate change?
Research Internships in the Amazon
A limited number of opportunities are available for interns to work for stints of 6-12 months at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP) in central Amazonia (www.pdbff.inpa.gov.br). The BDFFP, a renowned research project, is the world’s largest and longest-running experimental study of habitat fragmentation.
