Environment
Urban planning students engage with communities through the Freedom Summer Fellowship
For the past three summers, MIT master’s students and recently graduated planners have collaborated with cities and...
Environment
Toxic dust from California’s shrinking Salton Sea is harming children’s lung growth – our study tracked the impact in 700 kids
Southern California’s Salton Sea was once a resort playground, with sunny beaches, celebrities and people waterskiing on the vast inland lake in the 1950s and ’60s.Today, those resorts are long gone, replaced by a...
Environment
How worried should you be about an AI apocalypse?
Super-intelligent artificial intelligence rising up and wiping out humanity has been a common trope in science fiction for decades....
Environment
Bypass the Strait of Hormuz with nuclear explosives? The US studied that in Panama and Colombia in the 1960s
With the world struggling to get oil supplies moving from the Middle East, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich raised eyebrows with a social media post highlighting a radical idea: Use nuclear bombs to cut a...
Environment
Better urban design could help save Florida’s threatened Big Cypress fox squirrel
Florida is home to a host of diverse wildlife you can’t find anywhere else. Most people know of manatees and Florida panthers. But you might never have heard of the Big Cypress fox squirrel, a...
Environment
New Scientist recommends the engaging Native Nations by Kathleen DuVal
The history of North America’s Indigenous peoples is fraught with stereotypes – and often seen through a European lens....
Environment
You’re not going to be alone in national parks this summer – enjoy the company
Will Rice, Associate Professor of Outdoor Recreation and Wildland Management, University of Montana -
On a summer morning a couple of years ago, we went for a hike on the fabled Bright Angel Trail, one of the most popular trails in Grand Canyon National Park.As scholars of tourism and...
Environment
Plug-in solar is coming – how dangerous is it and is it worth it?
The global surge in solar power is nothing short of extraordinary. Over the last 15 years, the cost of installing a...
Environment
How California’s war on smog and its ambitious car pollution rules made everyone’s air cleaner
Cars on the road today are 99% cleaner than they were in 1970. Air quality in the United States is much, much better as a result. In Los Angeles, where I live, lead levels in...
Environment
Climate change may produce “fast-food” phytoplankton
We are what we eat. And in the ocean, most life-forms source their food from phytoplankton. These...
- Advertisement -![spot_img]()
Latest News
- Advertisement -![spot_img]()
- Advertisement -![spot_img]()