Tag: climate change
Coffee farmers struggle to adapt to Colombia’s changing climate
Jessica Eise, Purdue University and Natalie White, Purdue University
In Colombia’s coffee-producing region of Risaralda, small trees run along the sharp incline of the Andes...
Walmart tried to make sustainability affordable. Here’s what happened
Andrew Spicer, University of South Carolina and David Graham Hyatt, University of Arkansas
What a difference the birth of a granddaughter can make.
For Lee...
Farmers are drawing groundwater from the giant Ogallala Aquifer faster than...
Char Miller, Pomona College
Every summer the U.S. Central Plains go dry, leading farmers to tap into groundwater to irrigate sorghum, soy, cotton, wheat and...
A high-adrenaline job: 5 questions answered about fighting wildfires
Michael Kodas, University of Colorado
Editor’s note: More than 1.2 million acres are currently burning across much of the West, Alaska and Florida. In California,...
A perfect storm of factors is making wildfires bigger and more...
Cassandra Moseley, University of Oregon
Hopes for fewer large wildfires in 2018, after last year’s disastrous fire season, are rapidly disappearing across the West. Six...
Spiraling wildfire fighting costs are largely beyond the Forest Service’s control
Cassandra Moseley, University of Oregon
Just six months after the devastating Thomas Fire – the largest blaze in California’s history – was fully contained, the...
How virtual worlds can recreate the geographic history of life
Robert K. Colwell, University of Connecticut and Thiago F. Rangel, Universidade Federal de Goias
The Amazon and the adjacent Andean slopes in South America host...
Crop insurance is good for farmers, but not always for the...
Don Fullerton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Julian Reif, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Tatyana Deryugina,...
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
