UVM Researchers Help Shape First National Nature Assessment
Taylor Ricketts, Director of UVM’s Gund Institute for Environment, and Rachelle Gould, a professor in UVM’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, have been selected to serve as chapter author and chapter lead, respectively, for the first-ever U.S. National Nature Assessment.
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Losing Nature Disproportionally Impacts Black, Hispanic, and Low-Income Americans
When nature vanishes, U.S. people of color and low-income Americans disproportionally lose critical environmental and health benefits—including air quality, crop productivity and natural disease control—a new University of Vermont study finds.
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