Tag: life & news
Why FEMA’s disaster relief gets political − especially when hurricane season...
Jennifer Selin, Arizona State University
Rumors and lies about government responses to natural disasters are not new. Politics, misinformation...
Columbus who? Decolonizing the calendar in Latin America
Elena Jackson Albarrán, Miami University
This is the season of patriotism in Latin America as many countries commemorate their...
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is a Halloween visitor from the spooky Oort Cloud...
James Wray, Georgia Institute of Technology
The human mind may find it difficult to conceptualize: a cosmic cloud so...
Charging, not range, is becoming a top concern for electric car drivers
Alan Jenn, University of California, Davis
The Biden administration is using tax credits, regulations and federal investments to shift...
Millions of people across the US use well water, but very...
Gabriel Lade, Macalester College
About 23 million U.S. households depend on private wells as their primary drinking water source....
Atmospheric rivers are shifting poleward, reshaping global weather patterns
Zhe Li, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the...
If you think grocery prices take a big bite out of...
Peter A. Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Though cynics may question her motives, Kamala Harris’ recent...
Swing-state GOP leaders amplified election denial in 2020 − and may...
Sadie Dempsey, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Benny Witkovsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jianing Li, Rutgers University; Michael W. Wagner, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Yiming...
EXPLORING NATURE
Venezuela’s deadly earthquakes happened on a fault similar to the San...
Sylvain Barbot, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Venezuela and its capital, Caracas, were rocked by two...
