Tag: climate change
These machines scrub greenhouse gases from the air – an inventor...
Klaus Lackner, Arizona State University
Two centuries of burning fossil fuels has put more carbon dioxide, a powerful greenhouse...
With fewer animals to spread their seeds, plants could have trouble...
Evan Fricke, Rice University; Alejandro Ordonez, Aarhus University; Haldre Rogers, Iowa State University, and Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus University
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When endangered species recover, humans may need to make room for...
Veronica Frans, Michigan State University
Imagine discovering a sea lion in the middle of the woods, more than a mile inland from the beach. Or...
Future engineers need to understand their work’s human impact – here’s...
Gordon D. Hoople, University of San Diego
Engineers spend much of their time absorbed in the technical aspects of problems, whether they’re designing the...
2021’s climate disasters revealed an east-west weather divide, with one side...
Shuang-Ye Wu, University of Dayton
Alongside a lingering global pandemic, the year 2021 was filled with climate disasters, some...
Tornadoes and climate change: What a warming world means for deadly...
John Allen, Central Michigan University
The deadly tornado outbreak that tore through communities from Arkansas to Illinois on the...
2021 Arctic Report Card reveals a (human) story of cascading disruptions,...
Matthew Druckenmiller, University of Colorado Boulder; Rick Thoman, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Twila Moon, University of Colorado Boulder
Tropical forests can recover surprisingly quickly on deforested lands – and...
Robin Chazdon, University of Connecticut; Bruno Hérault, Cirad; Catarina Conte Jakovac, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, and Lourens Poorter, Wageningen University
EXPLORING NATURE
From ancient texts to modern practices, Daoism provides a profound framework...
Michael Naparstek, University of Tennessee
Daoism, China’s indigenous religion, is one of the country’s five officially recognized religions today....
