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It’s been an unusual year for pollen, with counts falling surprisingly low in May. So what will the fall allergy season look like? Fordham biologist Guy Robinson, PhD, has some …
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Thomas Daniels, director of Fordham’s Louis Calder Center and creator of the Fordham Tick Index, explained that colder, snowier winters can actually benefit tick populations, as snow cover insulates them …
The forthcoming Bronx Green Jobs Center, Rose Hill’s future STEM facility, and the chapel coming to the Louis Calder Center may seem like very different projects, but they all share …
In the Northeast, the end of summer is when gardeners finally get to harvest fresh, juicy tomatoes. But climate change is making summers hotter; it’s also creating longer droughts and …
If you’re feeling like deer are everywhere, you’re not wrong: their abundance in the Northeast has sparked widespread concerns, from the depletion of forests to highway accidents and more. But …
The tick situation this summer really is bad, Thomas Daniels, the director of the Louis Calder Center in Armonk, told The Times in this article. The Fordham Tick Index, which gauges the risk of …
Climate change is one of the most urgent issues of our time, and young people increasingly want to be part of the solution. Fortunately, there’s a “green” college major to …
Every year, over a billion birds collide with buildings around the country. An estimated 600 million die immediately or succumb to their injuries on the ground. But what about the …
Guy Robinson, Ph.D., maintains and collects pollen samples from the city's only official pollen monitoring station, located at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus. Photo by Rafael Villa.
Michael Kausch has a very mixed relationship with some of the smallest living things on earth. On the one hand, Kausch, a Ph.D. student based at Fordham’s Louis Calder Center …
With the effects of climate change drawing increasing attention, the Fordham community has ideas for bringing the issue down to Earth and spurring the public to action. Robin Happel describes …
