Tag: California
Plastic bag bans can backfire if consumers just use other plastics...
Rebecca Taylor, University of Sydney
Governments are increasingly banning the use of plastic products, such as carryout bags, straws, utensils and microbeads. The goal is...
How urban agriculture can improve food security in US cities
Miguel Altieri, University of California, Berkeley
During the partial federal shutdown in December 2018 and January 2019, news reports showed furloughed government workers standing in...
Nancy Pelosi victorious – why the California Democrat was reelected speaker...
Kathryn L. Pearson, University of Minnesota
Despite some brash and not insignificant opposition, California’s Nancy Pelosi is returning to her previous role as speaker of...
#MeToo, workplace equality and the ‘wave of women’: 3 essential reads
Bryan Keogh, The Conversation and Nicole Zelniker, The Conversation
Editor’s note: As we come to the end of the year, Conversation editors take a look...
How fierce fall and winter winds help fuel California fires
Faith Kearns, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Max Moritz, University of California, Santa Barbara
It doesn’t take long in California...
A bee economist explains honey bees’ vital role in growing tasty...
Brittney Goodrich, Auburn University
It’s sometimes reported that one in every three bites of food depends on bees. As is often the case when an...
Climate change and wildfires – how do we know if there...
Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Once again, the summer of 2018 in the Northern Hemisphere has brought us an epidemic of major...
A high-adrenaline job: 5 questions answered about fighting wildfires
Michael Kodas, University of Colorado
Editor’s note: More than 1.2 million acres are currently burning across much of the West, Alaska and Florida. In California,...
EXPLORING NATURE
Formula 1 racing shows the hard part of reaching net‑zero carbon...
Caitlin Grady, George Washington University and Sachi Nandurkar, George Washington University
Formula 1 auto racing is one of the...
