Tag: California
Supreme Court grapples with animal welfare in a challenge to a...
David Favre, Michigan State University
Should Californians be able to require higher welfare standards for farm animals that are...
Surging sales of large gasoline pickups and SUVs are undermining carbon...
John DeCicco, University of Michigan
Replacing petroleum fuels with electricity is crucial for curbing climate change because it cuts...
A water strategy for the parched West: Have cities pay farmers...
Robert Glennon, University of Arizona
“Are you going to run out of water?” is the first question people ask...
What are PFAS, and why is the EPA warning about them...
Kathryn Crawford, Middlebury
“PFAS? What’s PFAS?”
You may be hearing that term in the news as...
Redwood trees have two types of leaves, scientists find – a...
Alana Chin, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Coast redwoods are amazing trees that scientists have studied for generations....
Los Angeles’ long, troubled history with urban oil drilling is nearing...
Jill Johnston, University of Southern California and Bhavna Shamasunder, Occidental College
Los Angeles had oil wells pumping in its...
What causes a tsunami? An ocean scientist explains the physics of...
Sally Warner, Brandeis University
On Jan. 15, 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in Tonga erupted, sending a tsunami...
Why building more homes won’t solve the affordable housing problem for...
Alex Schwartz, The New School and Kirk McClure, University of Kansas
Even before 2020, the U.S. faced an acute...
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...
