The theme that runs through the nearly two dozen essays collected in “A Landscape History of New England’’ moves beyond our usual understanding of “landscape’’ as a physical place to one shaped by a ...

Welcome to Beachy Head, England’s tallest chalk headland. From up here, the ocean stretches forever. The Beachy Head ...

Bryan Shuman, a professor in UW’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, collects a sediment sample from Green Pond in central Massachusetts. Shuman was part of a study that shows forest adaptation in ...

The theme that runs through the nearly two dozen essays collected in “A Landscape History of New England’’ moves beyond our usual understanding of “landscape’’ as a physical place to one shaped by a ...

The Anthropocene has transformed England, outline researchers in a new report. The Anthropocene -- the concept that humans have so transformed geological processes at Earth's surface that we are ...

As a result of historical and current human impacts on natural ecosystems worldwide, most modern landscapes involve an element of cultural influence. In New England, for example, although the ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers determined the immunological landscape of England throughout the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ...

An interpretive sign stands at the edge of the Montague Plains Wildlife Management Area, a 1,500-acre state conservation property in central Massachusetts. It explains the site's open land vegetation ...

The forests of southern New England are being chopped down to make room for subdivisions, strip malls and highways, and this loss of natural landscape has been particularly rapid in the last 30 years, ...