Tag: climate change
Climate change is affecting crop yields and reducing global food supplies
Deepak Ray, University of Minnesota
Farmers are used to dealing with weather, but climate change is making it harder by altering temperature and rainfall patterns,...
US agriculture needs a 21st-century New Deal
Maywa Montenegro, University of California, Davis; Annie Shattuck, University of California, Berkeley, and Joshua Sbicca, Colorado State University
These are difficult times in farm country....
High-value opportunities exist to restore tropical rainforests around the world –...
Robin Chazdon, University of Connecticut
The green belt of tropical rainforests that covers equatorial regions of the Americas, Africa, Indonesia and Southeast Asia is turning...
Is burning trash a good way to handle it? Waste incineration...
Ana Baptista, The New School
Burning trash has a long history in the United States, and municipal solid waste incinerators have sparked resistance in many...
Biodiversity helps coral reefs thrive – and could be part of...
Cody Clements, Georgia Institute of Technology
Coral reefs are home to so many species that they often are called “the rainforests of the seas.” Today...
Is burning trash a good way to handle it? Waste incineration...
Ana Baptista, The New School
Burning trash has a long history in the United States, and municipal solid waste incinerators have sparked resistance in many...
The Defense Department is worried about climate change – and also...
Neta C. Crawford, Boston University
Scientists and security analysts have warned for more than a decade that global warming is a potential national security concern.
They...
The economic cost of devastating hurricanes and other extreme weather events...
Gary W. Yohe, Wesleyan University
June marks the official start of hurricane season. If recent history is any guide, it will prove to be another...
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...
