For hundreds of years, it wasn’t uncommon for farmers in Europe to till their land and plant their crops only to see the soil wash away by year’s end. Before they started all over again, many had to carry the lost soil back up to the fields. Piles of dirt overflowed oxcarts or burdened the […]
Author Archives: Joe Roman
Joe Roman is a conservation biologist, author, and fellow at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics and a McCurdy Visiting Scholar at the Duke University Marine Lab. He is the author of "Whale and Listed: Dispatches from America’s Endangered Species Act," winner of the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award. Roman's research has appeared in Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, and other journals, and he has written for many publications including The New York Times, Slate, Audubon, and New Scientist.
