This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. An old proverbial saying states, “waste not, want not,” which means if you use a commodity or resource carefully and without extravagance, you will never be in need. Likewise, if…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After so many smoke-filled summers and record-setting burns, residents of Western North America are no strangers to wildfires. Still, many questions are circulating about why forest fires are becoming larger…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Smoke from wildfires in the western United States and Canada has blanketed much of the country in a thick haze, creating unhealthy air quality as far away as North Carolina.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Manipulating RNA allows plants to yield dramatically more crops and increases drought tolerance, researchers report. In initial tests, adding a gene encoding for a protein called FTO to both rice…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In recent weeks, catastrophic floods overwhelmed towns in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, inundated subway tunnels in China, swept through northwestern Africa and triggered deadly landslides in India and Japan.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Access to clean, affordable, and safe drinking water is both a fundamental human right recognized by the United Nations and Goal 6 of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. However, access to this…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. ‘Chief Resilience Officer’ was a novel title a decade ago but is now a fixture across many major city and county governments seeking to address the impacts of climate change…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Plant materials that lie to rot in soil makes good compost and play a key role in sequestering carbon, research finds. For quite some time, farmers and researchers have been…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. U.S. corn and soybean varieties have become increasingly heat and drought resistant as agricultural production adapts to a changing climate. But the focus on developing crops for extreme conditions has…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the last 20 years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, has failed to enforce a law that would have made U.S. cities and towns more resilient to the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Chagos Archipelago is one of the most remote, seemingly idyllic places on Earth. Coconut-covered sandy beaches with incredible bird life rim tropical islands in the Indian Ocean, hundreds of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2008, as big banks began failing across Wall Street and the housing and stock markets crashed, the nation saw how crucial financial regulation is for economic stability – and…