Christina Patricola, Iowa State University The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and forecasters are keeping a close eye on rising ocean temperatures, and not just in the Atlantic. Globally, warm sea surface temperatures that can fuel hurricanes have been off…
Albert C. Lin, University of California, Davis The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in Sackett v. EPA that federal protection of wetlands encompasses only those wetlands that directly adjoin rivers, lakes and other bodies of water. This is an extremely…
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Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law & Graduate School and John Dernbach, Widener University…
Andrew King, The University of Melbourne One year in the next five…
Christian Downie, Australian National University and Robert Brulle, Brown University Leer en español. You’ve probably seen ads promoting gas and oil companies as the solutions to climate change. They’re meant to be…
Oscar del Barco Novillo, Universidad de Zaragoza One of the most intriguing predictions of Einstein’s general theory of relativity is the existence of black holes: astronomical objects with gravitational fields so strong…
Candelaria Bergero, University of California, Irvine and Steve Davis, University of California, Irvine Several major airlines have pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by midcentury to fight climate change. It’s an ambitious…
Pengfei Zhang, Penn State Atmospheric rivers, those long, powerful streams of moisture in the sky, are becoming more frequent in the Arctic, and they’re helping to drive dramatic shrinking of the Arctic’s…
Paris Stefanoudis, University of Oxford Sunlit coral reefs are perhaps the most famous marine habitat and many people will have snorkelled over or dived down to one at some point. Home to…
Daniel Sperling, University of California, Davis California is embarking on an audacious new climate plan that aims to eliminate the state’s greenhouse gas footprint by 2045, and in the process, slash emissions…
Noah Kaufman, Columbia University; Chris Bataille, Columbia University; Gautam Jain, Columbia University, and Sagatom Saha, Columbia University Rising trade tensions between the U.S. and the European Union, two of the most important…
Jyoti Mishra, University of California, San Diego The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Psychological trauma from extreme weather and climate events, such as wildfires,…
Scott Shackelford, Indiana University; Christiana Ochoa, Indiana University; David Bosco, Indiana University, and Kerry Krutilla, Indiana University As companies race to expand renewable energy and the batteries to store it, finding sufficient…
Luciano Rodrigues Viana, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC); Charles Marty, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC); Jean-François Boucher, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC), and Pierre-Luc Dessureault, Université du Québec à…
