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Students Head Outdoors for Different Kind of Learning

There are important lessons to be learned outside the classroom, lessons that don’t abide by numbers and rules: smelling the damp earth after a rainstorm; watching birds flit from twig to twig; planting a seed and watching it grow.

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Botanist Sows Seeds of Hope for Plant Conservation

Three decades of field experience have enabled Hope Leeson to develop an intimate knowledge of Rhode Island’s plant communities.

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Uptick in Urban Rat Sightings Linked to Pandemic

During the height of the pandemic, people around the country began to report that they were seeing rats in large numbers, even in broad daylight. That’s because the human reaction to the coronavirus caused rats to change their behavior, most notably their feeding habits.

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