Tag: Baltimore
I’ve captained ships into tight ports like Baltimore, and this is...
Allan Post, Texas A&M University
Details are still emerging about the disaster that happened in the early morning of...
Disasters like bridge collapses put transportation agencies’ emergency plans to the test
Lee D. Han, University of Tennessee
A container ship rammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore around...
More than two dozen cities and states are suing Big Oil...
Honolulu has lost more than 5 miles of its famous beaches to sea level rise and storm surges. Sunny-day flooding during high...
K-12 schools need to take cyberattacks more seriously
Nir Kshetri, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
Teachers in Baltimore County Public Schools knew something was wrong late in the day on Nov. 24...
Repatriating the archives: Lumbee scholars find their people and bring them...
Ashley Minner, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Jessica R. Locklear, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Following World War II, thousands of Lumbee...
Could a national buyback program reduce gun violence in America?
Lacey Wallace, Pennsylvania State University
Americans own nearly half of the world’s guns, with approximately 120 firearms for every 100 U.S. residents.
Gun control policies may...
There’s a dark political history to language that strips people of...
William A. Donohue, Michigan State University
Dehumanizing language often precedes genocide.
One tragic example: Extreme dehumanizing language was a strong contributor to the 1994 genocide in...
Why states and cities should stop handing out billions in economic...
Nathan Jensen, University of Texas at Austin
U.S. states and cities hand out tens of billions in taxpayer dollars every year to companies as economic...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
