This major is designed for students who are interested in studying the ways that plants improve our everyday lives. Plants play many roles in human environments. Plants are used to revegetate and restore disturbed landscapes, control erosion and reduce energy and water consumption. Environmental Horticulture and Urban Forestry is a diverse field including among others: Ornamental Horticulture; Landscape Horticulture; Plant Biodiversity; Urban…

Minute Man National Historical Park (MIMA) is seeking Natural Resource Caretakers to help maintain the natural and ecological beauty of the park. With over 1000 acres of gardens, forests, hiking trails, farmland, and pastureland to maintain, stewardship is an integral part of park maintenance. Caretakers help restore various habitats, refurbish pastures, and inventory wildlife. Volunteer Activities include, among others: • Construction…

Cleaning up the large number of groundwater contamination sites is a significant and complex environmental challenge. The environmental industry is continuously looking for remediation methods that are both effective and cost-efficient. Over the past 10 years there have been amazing, important developments in understanding of key attenuation processes and technologies for evaluating natural attenuation processes, and a changing institutional…

This Conference on Renewable Energy and Environment Engineering (REEE) 2018 will be held in Paris, France on October 29-31, 2018. It is an annual conference provides a yearly platform for delegates and members to present and discuss the latest research, and delegates and members will have many opportunities engage in dialogues about renewable energy and environment engineering. It also provides new insights and brings together scholars…

This e-learning series deals with the Fuels section of the 2015 Integrated Rangeland Fire Management Strategy, which calls for a comprehensive knowledge transfer program to enhance the fuels management program’s role in sagebrush-steppe management. The Strategy is intended to improve the efficiency and efficacy of actions to address rangeland fire, to better prevent and suppress rangeland fire, and improve efforts to restore fire-impacted…

The Equator Initiative is a United Nations-led partnership that brings together governments, civil society, grassroots organizations, and businesses to foster resilient communities by recognizing and advancing local nature-based solutions for sustainable development. This year’s Equator Prize will recognize innovative initiatives from local communities and indigenous peoples that demonstrate exceptional achievements in the area of nature-based…

The Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) organizes regional conferences every other year. This year Togo is hosting the Africa regional conference with the main focus on 'Management of Ecosystem Services for Nature Conservation and Human Wellbeing in Africa' on 17-20 June 2019. This conference is organized to draw attention to the key role ecosystems are playing in the development of the economy, human wellbeing and culture in (Sub-Saharan)…

Stockholm University's Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry is seeking a student for a PhD project that will be immersed in a decade-long ongoing international research collaboration on climate-relevant biogeochemical carbon cycling processes in the Arctic.

Openings for 3 Post-doctoral research positions, 2 of them at the University of Bern and 1 at the University of Reading, as part of the INCLUDE project.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC) is soliciting interest from qualified individuals to serve as a Supervisory Ecologist. The candidate will join other competent scientists, technicians, and support staff of the USGS working in more than 400 locations in the United States. Key responsibilities will be, among others: Implement and manage a comprehensive and dynamic ecological research program…

Cuso International in collaboration International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is offering a volunteer position for a Water And Wetlands Officer. Key responsibilities will be among many others: Assist with studies and management activities related to climate change vulnerability and adaptation at the Xe Champhone and Beung Kiat Ngong Wetlands; Assist in strengthening capacities of water/natural resources/wetlands users to apply…

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust is restoring nature across these beautiful counties and empowering people to connect with their local wildlife. As they work to manage habitats to tackle the nature and climate crises locally, they provide vital breathing spaces in a crowded world, their expert team work with more than 1,700 volunteers to look after 85 nature reserves and four education centres, run hundreds of amazing…

This free virtual conference brings together experts and advocates from across multiple fields of conservation to address threats to ecosystems and biodiversity, and the efforts being made, demanded, and imagined in order to protect and restore species in decline. This conference is hosted by the CLEANR, UCI Newkirk Center for Science & Society, and Coastal Quest. The program presents a series of distinctively different approaches to species…

About Food insecurity, climate change, biodiversity loss, and chemical pollution: Whilst it is widely acknowledged that we urgently need to transform our food systems to ensure our common future on this planet, too little is known about the countries or states that take fundamental steps towards that aim. On the occasion of World Food Day 2021, the World Future Council and the Pesticide Action Network Asia and Pacific are organising a timely…

The Woodland Trust is the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity. It is important to see a UK rich in native woods and trees, for people and wildlife. The Trust aims to engage and inspire people about woods and trees to help meet vision of creating, restoring and protecting woodland. The Market Research Executive will complete market research projects and guide teams across the Trust with questionnaire development, online survey set up, data…

The Ecosystem Service Patnership (ESP) organizes regional conferences every other year.This conference is organized to draw attention to the key role ecosystems are playing in the development of the economy, human wellbeing and culture in (Sub-Saharan) Africa. Yet, in spite of all the benefits of ecosystem services (or Nature’s Contributions to People) the ecosystems providing them are facing many threats affecting the livelihoods and resilience…

Understanding the effectiveness of the natural flood management (NFM) research program is funded and directed by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). It aims to: ‘improve understanding of the suitability and effectiveness of different NFM measures for a range of flood risk scenarios’ Outputs from the programme will improve the NFM evidence base, and help policymakers, businesses, and local communities make best use of NFM measures…