Tag: New York
What is lake-effect snow? A climate scientist explains
Michael A. Rawlins, UMass Amherst
It’s hard for most people to imagine more than 5 feet of snow in...
More mass shootings are happening at grocery stores – 13% of...
Jillian Peterson, Hamline University and James Densley, Metropolitan State University
An apparently racially motivated attack at a supermarket in...
New Englanders support more offshore wind power – just don’t send...
David Bidwell, University of Rhode Island; Jeremy Firestone, University of Delaware, and Michael Ferguson, University of New...
‘West Side Story’ may be timeless – but life in gangs...
David Pyrooz, University of Colorado Boulder; James Densley, Metropolitan State University , and Scott H. Decker, Arizona State University
The US isn’t in a second wave of coronavirus – the...
Melissa Hawkins, American University
After sustained declines in the number of COVID-19 cases over recent months, restrictions are starting to ease across the United States....
Solar farms, power stations and water treatment plants can be attractions...
Margaret Birney Vickery, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amid the economic and social fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people see the process of restarting society...
Archaeologists have a lot of dates wrong for North American indigenous...
Sturt Manning, Cornell University
Columbus famously reached the Americas in 1492. Other Europeans had made the journey before, but the century from then until 1609...
Not all candy is candy – at least for tax purposes
Hayes Holderness, University of Richmond
Halloween shoppers have many delicious decisions to make before trick-or-treaters show up at their doors. And in many states, those...