By Mike Shriberg, Professor of Practice & Engagement, School for Environment & Sustainability; Director of the University of Michigan Water Center, University of Michigan In a time of political polarization, it’s easy to forget that the vast majority of Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs – 80% or more, depending
by Dan McGrath, Associate Professor of Cryospheric Sciences, Colorado State University; Ashlesha Khatiwada, Ph.D. Candidate in Geoscience, Colorado State University; and Scott Hotaling, Assistant Professor of Watershed Sciences, Utah State University If you have ever hiked in the high peaks of Colorado, the Wasatch Range in Utah or the Tetons
by Jules B. Kajtar, Senior Research Scientist – Physical Oceanography, National Oceanography Centre, and Zoe Jacobs, Biogeochemical Modeller, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton A dip in the sea can provide welcome relief after long stretches of hot weather — especially when the water is an inviting 20°C or more,
This story was originally published by ProPublica. by Nick Bowlin and Al Shaw, ProPublica — Co-published with The Frontier Down a dirt road in northwest Oklahoma, only a few hundred yards from where the city of Enid draws its drinking water, a company injects the toxic byproduct of oil production
by Jena Brooker, BridgeDetroit Co-published with BridgeDetroit The abandoned house next door meant a lot to Christina Kary. For years, she tended to it, planting purple flowers, removing weeds and picking up trash. She attached locks to the doors to prevent trespassers from entering. She had considered buying the property,
By Lee Ann Rawlins Williams, Clinical Assistant Professor of Education, Health and Behavior Studies, University of North Dakota Flash flooding has been tearing up communities across the U.S., with heavy downpours sending creeks and rivers rushing over their banks from Texas to Kentucky, across the Midwest and into the Mid-Atlantic
This story was originally published by ProPublica. by Mark Olalde, ProPublica, and Jimmy Tobias, High Country News ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive stories like this in your inbox every week. The
Mariah Meek, Michigan State University and Karrigan Börk, University of California, Davis It wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down, or to bar killing endangered salmon while allowing a dam to dry out their habitat. But that’s
Molly Redden and Avi Asher-Schapiro, ProPublica This story was originally published by ProPublica. Co-published with Mountain State Spotlight. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive their biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Trump administration officials earlier this year killed a federal criminal
The Trump administration has ordered the removal of several key satellite instruments that monitor climate-related data, drawing criticism from scientists who warn that the shift to a weather-only focus threatens to impair critical weather prediction capabilities.
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