Tag: Resilience
The Texas blackouts showed how climate extremes threaten energy systems across...
Roshanak (Roshi) Nateghi, Purdue University
Pundits and politicians have been quick to point fingers over the debacle in Texas...
Preserving cultural and historic treasures in a changing climate may mean...
Erin Seekamp, North Carolina State University
With global travel curtailed during the COVID-19 pandemic, many people are finding comfort in planning future trips. But imagine...
Keep calm and carry on – but how? A psychologist offers...
Bethany Teachman, University of Virginia
Well-meaning advice for people freaking out about current events often includes encouragement to be patient, stay calm and keep the...
Stressful times are an opportunity to teach children resilience
Vanessa LoBue, Rutgers University - Newark
Between the global COVID-19 pandemic, the associated economic downturn and widespread protests over racism, it’s difficult for everyone....
New York’s new rental protections won’t end the outsize influence of...
Cem S. Kayatekin, IE University
New York has passed sweeping new laws that will close some legal loopholes that allowed the city’s 1 million rent-stabilized...
How rural areas like Florida’s Panhandle can become more hurricane-ready
Eren Erman Ozguven, Florida State University
When Hurricane Michael roared onto northwest Florida’s Gulf Coast in October 2018, its 160 mile-per-hour winds made it the...
Why I use Harry Potter to teach a college course on...
Georgene Troseth, Vanderbilt University
In an effort to find a more engaging way to present child development to new psychology students, I decided to use...
How your social network could save you from a disaster
Daniel P. Aldrich, Northeastern University and Danaë Metaxa, Stanford University
In early November 2017, Brooks Fisher’s neighbor in Sonoma, California, pounded on his door at...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
