Amandine Schaeffer, UNSW Sydney; Alex Sen Gupta, UNSW Sydney, and Moninya Roughan, UNSW Sydney Most of us know what a heatwave feels like on land – sweltering heat for days. But oceans get heatwaves too. When water temperature goes over a seasonal threshold…
Jesús Galindo-Zaldivar, Universidad de Granada The epicentre of Morocco’s devastating earthquake on 8 September was in the High Atlas Mountains, about 71km south-west of Marrakesh. Moina Spooner, from The Conversation Africa, asked Jesús Galindo-Zaldivar, who has been carrying out research…
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Ioanna Stamataki, University of Greenwich Recent images of the devastating flash floods…
Jamie Peeler, University of Montana The U.S. government is investing over US$7…
Sanjay Mishra, Vanderbilt University Drugmakers are facing challenges in manufacturing vaccines and building supply chains to meet the demand for COVID-19 vaccines. Pfizer has even lowered production targets. Scarcity of vaccines has…
David Kennedy, Penn State Editor’s note: Two new strains of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 called B.1.1.7 and B.1.351 have been found in the U.K. and South Africa and are thought to…
Catherine Bagwell, Emory University “Can’t I just go see one friend?” “I need to hang out with my friends.” “You are being overprotective and unreasonable!” Social distancing is both necessary and hard.…
Joshua M. Pearce, Michigan Technological University As COVID-19 wreaks havoc on global supply chains, a trend of moving manufacturing closer to customers could go so far as to put miniature manufacturing plants…
Paul K. Byrne, North Carolina State University On Feb. 21, 2019, we shot an asteroid. More precisely, the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, built and operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, fired…
Stephen Pyne, Arizona State University Another autumn, more fires, more refugees and incinerated homes. For California, flames have become the colors of fall. Free-burning fire is the proximate provocation for the havoc,…
Gary W. Lewandowski Jr., Monmouth University The new year is going to be better. It has to be better. Maybe you’re one of the 74% of Americans in one survey who said…
Bill Sullivan, Indiana University Black licorice may look and taste like an innocent treat, but this candy has a dark side. On Sept. 23, 2020, it was reported that black licorice was…
Louise Chawla, University of Colorado Boulder As an environmental psychologist who works to improve young people’s access to nature, I recently completed a review that brings two bodies of research together: one…
James H. Ruppert Jr., Penn State and Allison Wing, Florida State University It was clear before the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season started that it was going to be busy. Six months later,…
