Tag: climate change
Reclaiming lost calories: Tweaking photosynthesis boosts crop yields
Amanda Cavanagh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
What if your ability to feed yourself was dependent on a process that made a mistake 20 percent...
An Indian perspective on the Poland climate meeting: Not much help...
Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan
The international climate change conference that concluded in Katowice, Poland on Dec. 15 had limited ambitions and expectations – especially...
Listening to nature: How sound can help us understand environmental change
Garth Paine, Arizona State University
Our hearing tells us of a car approaching from behind, unseen, or a bird in a distant forest. Everything...
The humble origins of ‘Silent Night’
Sarah Eyerly, Florida State University
One of the world’s most famous Christmas carols, “Silent Night,” celebrates its 200th anniversary this year.
Over the centuries, hundreds...
Cargo ships are emitting boatloads of carbon, and nobody wants to...
Henrik Selin, Boston University and Rebecca Cowing, Boston University
Maritime shipping transports 90 percent of the goods traded around the world by volume. Moving large...
We’ve been studying a glacier in Peru for 14 years –...
Mathias Vuille, University at Albany, State University of New York
High mountain environments in South America, which in many locations encompass peaks that reach 21,000...
Climate change is shrinking winter snowpack, which harms Northeast forests year-round
Andrew Reinmann, CUNY Graduate Center and Pamela Templer, Boston University
Climate change often conjures up images of heat, drought and hurricanes. But according to the...
Companies blocked from using West Coast ports to export fossil fuels...
Shawn Olson-Hazboun, Evergreen State College and Hilary Boudet, Oregon State University
A year after Washington state denied key permits for a coal-export terminal in the...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
