How Did New York City Become a Diverse Ecological Hot Spot? — New York Magazine – Annotated   Incredibly, scientists are starting to view New York as an ecological hot spot—more diverse and richer in nature than the suburbs and rural counties that surround it.   “People think of the rural as this pristine, untouched [...]

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Letter from North Carolina: A Death in the Forest: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker Annotated   Excerpts of an abstract–In 1951, an Asian insect known as the hemlock woolly adelgid was discovered near a park in Richmond, Virginia, which contained imported evergreens.   Describes how globalization and climate change affect the spread of invasive [...]

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