Native North Americans did not make large-scale changes to their environment in coastal New England in the 14,000 years they lived there before the Europeans arrived, a study has found. In recent ...
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 ...
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 ...