Tag: Mining
Deepwater corals thrive at the bottom of the ocean, but can’t...
Sandra Brooke, Florida State University
When people think of coral reefs, they typically picture warm, clear waters with brightly colored corals and fishes. But other...
Trump should wage a war on waste instead of battling the...
Clyde Eiríkur Hull, Rochester Institute of Technology
President Donald Trump is fighting the wrong fight in his ongoing trade war with the rest of the...
The sage grouse isn’t just a bird – it’s a proxy...
John Freemuth, Boise State University
The Trump administration is clashing with conservation groups and others over protection for the greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), a...
Mercury from industrialized nations is polluting the Arctic – here’s how...
Daniel Obrist, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Scientists have long understood that the Arctic is affected by mercury pollution, but know less about how it happens....
Interior Secretary Zinke invokes Teddy Roosevelt as model, but his public...
John Freemuth, Boise State University
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s recommendations to shrink four national monuments and allow fossil fuel development activities on others is just...
The world is facing a global sand crisis
Aurora Torres, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research; Jianguo "Jack" Liu, Michigan State University; Jodi Brandt, Boise State University, and Kristen Lear, University of...
Earthquakes triggered by humans pose growing risk
Gillian Foulger, Durham University; Jon Gluyas, Durham University, and Miles Wilson, Durham University
People knew we could induce earthquakes before we knew what they were....
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
