Tag: climate change
30 years after Edwards v. Aguillard: Why creationism lingers in public...
John E. Taylor, West Virginia University
This month marks the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Edwards v. Aguillard, a groundbreaking case...
Climate change is shrinking the Colorado River
Brad Udall, Colorado State University and Jonathan Overpeck, University of Arizona
The nation’s two largest reservoirs, Lake Mead on the Arizona/Nevada border and Lake Powell...
To slow climate change, India joins the renewable energy revolution
Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan
On June 3, two days after President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate accord,...
Why Trump’s withdrawal from Paris doesn’t matter as much as you...
Robert H. Scott III, Monmouth University
Many reacted to President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord with understandable dismay, fearful that...
Why Trump’s decision to leave Paris accord hurts the US and...
Travis N. Rieder, Johns Hopkins University; Anthony Janetos, Boston University; Kevin Trenberth, National Center for Atmospheric Research ; Marina v. N. Whitman, University of...
Understanding tornadoes: 5 questions answered
Paul Markowski, Pennsylvania State University and Yvette Richardson, Pennsylvania State University
Editor’s note: May and June are typically peak months for tornadoes in...
Should the US stay in the Paris Agreement? A majority of...
Ed Maibach, George Mason University; Anthony Leiserowitz, Yale University, and Jennifer Marlon, Yale University
In December 2015, officials from nearly every country in...
To curb climate change, we need to protect and expand US...
William Moomaw, Tufts University
Forests have been removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing carbon for more than 300 million years. When...
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...
