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…
The unrelenting public campaign around the troubled FSO Nabarima over the past few months has underlined two critical features of Trinidad and Tobago’s sustainability journey. First of all, the power that activist groups and citizens have in the…
William Petri, University of Virginia A COVID-19 vaccine was not ready before the general election, as many people, including the president, had hoped. But there are promising signs that one may be…
Over the past year, the advent of a professional economy powered by people working from home has quickened the conversation about where to live, particularly among millennials. “Is now the right time…
Julie Brigham-Grette, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Steve Petsch, University of Massachusetts Amherst Every year, sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean shrinks to a low point in mid-September. This year it…
Emad Hasan, Binghamton University, State University of New York and Aondover Tarhule, Illinois State University Flowing through 11 African countries, the Nile River plays an important role in the lives of more…
Matthew R Sanderson, Kansas State University; Burke Griggs, Washburn University, and Jacob A. Miller, Kansas State University A slow-moving crisis threatens the U.S. Central Plains, which grow a quarter of the nation’s…
Judith Su, University of Arizona The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea My Little Sensor Lab at the University of Arizona develops ultrasensitive optical sensors…
Richard Potts, Smithsonian Institution People thrive all across the globe, at every temperature, altitude and landscape. How did human beings become so successful at adapting to whatever environment we wind up in?…
Susannah Scott, University of California Santa Barbara If you thought those flimsy disposable plastic grocery bags represented most of our plastic waste problem, think again. The volume of plastic the world throws…
Michael Gurven, University of California Santa Barbara and Thomas Kraft, University of California Santa Barbara Feeling under the weather? Chances are you or your doctor will grab a thermometer, take your temperature…
