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October 2, 2018
As Hurricane Florence ground its way through North Carolina, it released what might politely be called an excrement storm. Massive hog farm manure... Read More
October 1, 2018
As environmental challenges become increasingly complex, the need for broadly focused approaches grows. That calls for an entirely new community to... Read More
September 26, 2018
Each sunrise in Las Cruces, Costa Rica, River Ingersoll’s field team trekked into the jungle to put the finishing touches on nearly invisible nets. A... Read More
September 24, 2018
An idea hatched by two Stanford graduate students in an engineering and entrepreneurship class won a global competition for climate change-focused... Read More
September 20, 2018 | Diverse Forests are Stronger Against Drought
Diversity is strength, even among forests. In a paper published in Nature, researchers led by University of Utah biologist William Anderegg report... Read More
September 18, 2018
Shuddering and unable to breathe, he vomited up five plastic bags. The small pilot whale, found in a Thai canal this past June, is another symptom... Read More
September 17, 2018
Consider Roger Federer.
The world’s most dominant male tennis player provides a meaningful analogy for climate change’s destabilizing impacts,... Read More
September 14, 2018
Hurricane Florence began pummeling North Carolina with drenching rains, powerful winds, and the threat of catastrophic flooding after making landfall... Read More
September 11, 2018
Imagine a major storm hits your neighborhood and the government offers to purchase homes with “a history of flood damage.” Your basement is... Read More
