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Greenstream is designed to highlight the science most important to our lives, with a strong emphasis on ecology. It’s designed to be accessible to readers of all backgrounds, so you won’t need an advanced degree to understand the posts.

Greenstream focuses on ecology because it’s at the heart of our existence. Understanding the relationships among plants, animals, and the environment is absolutely vital to living well; it’s also a good working definition of what ecologists do.

The material here discusses the importance of recent science from peer-reviewed journals and news from the popular press.  Reported without rigid ideology or partisanship, the posts are a compilation of some of the best and most important science relevant to our life on earth.